This Wordscapes Santa Claws vs Skunk comparison shows how the two Wildlife animals differ by reward type, activity time, sleep time, heart gems, coin cost, and max-level output.
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Heart gems
Rewards by level: Santa Claws vs Skunk
Santa Claws and Skunk only pay heart gems. The table compares them level by level, per activity.
| Level | Heart gems | |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claws | Skunk | |
| L1 | 525 | 475 |
| L2 | 600 | 510 |
| L3 | 750 | 545 |
| L4 | 900 | 580 |
| L5 | 1,175 | 620 |
| L6 | 1,275 | 660 |
| L7 | 1,500 | 720 |
| L8 | — | 766 |
| L9 | — | 815 |
| L10 | — | 867 |
A dash means the animal does not reach that level.
Santa Claws runs 2 h activities and Skunk runs 4 h activities, so the numbers above are not like for like. The table below converts both animals to a 30-minute rate.
Per 30 minutes by level
| Level | Heart gems | |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claws | Skunk | |
| L1 | 131.3 | 59.4 |
| L2 | 150 | 63.8 |
| L3 | 187.5 | 68.1 |
| L4 | 225 | 72.5 |
| L5 | 293.8 | 77.5 |
| L6 | 318.8 | 82.5 |
| L7 | 375 | 90 |
| L8 | — | 95.8 |
| L9 | — | 101.9 |
| L10 | — | 108.4 |
At each level, the higher value of a pair is shown in a colored chip, like this. A dash means the animal does not reach that level.
Santa Claws or Skunk: what the numbers say
Santa Claws is an Epic heart gem animal and Skunk a Rare one, but Santa Claws runs 2-hour activities and Skunk 4-hour ones. Santa Claws does 4 activities before its 24-hour sleep, Skunk 6. Finishing an activity early costs 1,000 coins with Santa Claws and 1,600 with Skunk. Per 30 minutes of activity at level 7, Santa Claws is ahead on heart gems (375 against 90). Skunk goes on to level 10, where it reaches 867 heart gems per activity, a level Santa Claws cannot reach. Collected on time and counting the sleep, a level 7 Santa Claws makes about 4,500 heart gems a day, against 2,601 for a level 10 Skunk, so per day Santa Claws comes out ahead. Santa Claws is a seasonal animal (real money or event gems), while Skunk hatches from the Red Egg.
At max level
| Metric | Santa Claws | Skunk |
|---|---|---|
| Rarity | Epic | Rare |
| Reward type | heart gems | heart gems |
| Max level | L7 | L10 |
| Coin cost | 1,000 | 1,600 |
| Activity time | 2 h | 4 h |
| Sleep time | 24 h | 24 h |
| Max hearts / 30 min | 375 | 108.4 |
| Max reward / 30 min | 375 | 108.4 |
| Max reward / collection | 1,500 | 867 |
| Coin efficiency | 150 | 54.2 |
Santa Claws and Skunk are useful when you want more heart gems to unlock animals, open eggs, and upgrade your Wildlife collection.
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