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A Golden Cookie

As of a recent update on 7/24/2016 update 2.002 was released named "Golden Cookie Overhaul." This will change how the Golden Cookie works significantly, rendering this page outdated, though it is primarily making the effects marked "beta" live.

The Golden Cookie (not to be confused with the Wrath Cookie) is a rare object that shows up on the screen in a random position during normal gameplay (as of v.2.002, it starts out very small, growing and pulsing as it fades in, before shrinking while fading to disappear). It remains on the screen for 13 seconds, slowly fading into nothing (the time it stays on-screen can be increased, see below). If it is clicked before it disappears entirely, it will grant the player one of five semi-random outcomes.

You can see how many Golden cookies you have clicked in the Stats menu. The menu previously listed how many Golden cookies have been missed, but Orteil removed that feature due to many players saying that it was "messing with their OCD". However, the number of missed clicks can still be found by typing Game.missedGoldenClicks into the console.

Some have reported that reindeer and Golden Cookies do not appear unless the browser is refreshed, due to bugs.

An interesting fact is that golden cookies are always in 7. Frenzy (see below) is times 7 and chains are also always in sevens. This is because 7 is symbolic for luck.

Golden Cookie upgrades mostly come in 7, such as the Leprechaun achievement which requires the player to click 777 golden cookies, referring to the number 7.

Related Achievements/Upgrades

Achievements
Icon Title Description ID #
File:GoldenCookie.png Golden cookie Click a golden cookie. 67
File:GoldenCookie.png Lucky cookie Click 7 golden cookies. 68
File:GoldenCookie.png A stroke of luck Click 27 golden cookies. 69
File:GoldenCookie.png Fortune Click 77 golden cookies.
"You should really go to bed."
77
File:GoldenCookie.png Leprechaun Click 777 golden cookies. 84
File:GoldenCookie.png Black cat's paw

Click 7777 golden cookies.

85
File:GoldenCookie.png Fading luck Click a golden cookie less than 1 second before it dies. 264
File:GoldenCookie.png Early bird Click a golden cookie less than 1 second after it spawns. 263

Related Upgrades

Icon Title Unlocked at Price (cookies) Description ID #
File:GoldenCookie.png Lucky day 7 Golden Cookies 777.778 million Golden cookies appear twice as often and last twice as long on screen.
"Oh hey, a four-leaf penny!"
52
File:GoldenCookie.png Serendipity 27 Golden Cookies 77.778 billion Golden cookies appear twice as often and last twice as long on screen.
"What joy! Seven horseshoes!"
53
File:GoldenCookie.png Get lucky 77 Golden Cookies 77.778 trillion Golden cookie effects last twice as long.
"You've been up all night, haven't you?"
86
File:Egg3.png Golden Goose Egg Easter Season 100 trillion Golden cookies appear 5% more often "The sole vestige of a tragic tale involving misguided investments." 222
File:GoldenCookie.png Gold hoard Cheating 7 Golden cookies appear every few seconds.
"That's entirely too many."
83

Spawn Timing

There is no way to predict exactly when the next Golden Cookie will spawn without spawning one using an add-on. However, you can make a best guess approximation based on your Upgrades. It is also affected by your current FPS (frames per second), which can be changed via cheating.

With no upgrades, the minimum time for a Golden Cookie to spawn is 5 minutes, and the maximum is 15 minutes. Every frame, the game checks if a random number between 0 and 1 is less than the proportion of time elapsed between the minimum and maximum time, taken to the 5th power. The resulting cumulative probability of the cookie spawning looks logistic , with the probability early in the range nearly zero but increasing extremely quickly. See the tables below for some common probabilities, assuming 30 FPS.

Lucky day and Serendipity each divide the minimum and maximum time by 2.

Time between Golden Cookie Spawns
Chance With no upgrades With only

"Lucky day"

With "Lucky day"

and "Serendipity"

0% 300 seconds 150 seconds 75 seconds
.1% 349.9 seconds 178.0 seconds 90.7 seconds
1% 373.4 seconds 191.2 seconds 98.1 seconds
10% 408.6 seconds 210.9 seconds 109.2 seconds
25% 428.3 seconds 222.0 seconds 115.4 seconds
33.3% 435.9 seconds 226.3 seconds 117.8 seconds
Average 446.562 seconds 232.251 seconds 121.158 seconds
50% 448.6 seconds 233.4 seconds 121.8 seconds
66.6% 460.5 seconds 240.0 seconds 125.5 seconds
75% 466.8 seconds 243.6 seconds 127.5 seconds
90% 481.5 seconds 251.9 seconds 132.1 seconds
99% 503.7 seconds 264.3 seconds 139.1 seconds
99.9% 518.0 seconds 272.3 seconds 143.6 seconds
100% 900 seconds 450 seconds 225 seconds

Golden goose egg, Heavenly luck, Arcane Aura, and Startrade during Business Day season all multiply the min and max time by 95%. Starspawn during Easter, Starterror during Halloween, and Starlove during Valentine's all multiply the min and max time by 98%. The following tables assume that you have Lucky day and Serendipity. With a 98% upgrade active, the probabilities are:

Chance One 95% upgrade Two 95% upgrades Three 95% upgrades
0% 73.5 seconds 69.833 seconds 66.367 seconds 63.033 seconds
.1% 89.0 seconds 84.7 seconds 80.6 seconds 76.6 seconds
1% 96.2 seconds 91.6 seconds 87.2 seconds 83.0 seconds
10% 107.1 seconds 102.0 seconds 97.2 seconds 92.6 seconds
25% 113.3 seconds 107.9 seconds 102.8 seconds 98.0 seconds
33.3% 115.6 seconds 110.2 seconds 105.0 seconds 100.0 seconds
Average 118.887 seconds 113.317 seconds 108.001 seconds 102.940 seconds
50% 119.5 seconds 113.9 seconds 108.6 seconds 103.5 seconds
66.6% 123.2 seconds 117.4 seconds 112.0 seconds 106.7 seconds
75% 125.1 seconds 119.3 seconds 113.8 seconds 108.5 seconds
90% 129.7 seconds 123.7 seconds 118.0 seconds 112.5 seconds
99% 136.6 seconds 130.3 seconds 124.3 seconds 118.5 seconds
99.9% 140.9 seconds 134.5 seconds 128.3 seconds 122.4 seconds
100% 220.5 seconds 209.5 seconds 199.033 seconds 189.067 seconds

Without a 98% upgrade active, the probabilities are:

Chance One 95% upgrade Two 95% upgrades Three 95% upgrades Four 95% upgrades
0% 71.267 seconds 67.7 seconds 64.333 seconds 61.1 seconds
.1% 86.3 seconds 82.1 seconds 78.2 seconds 74.3 seconds
1% 93.4 seconds 88.9 seconds 84.7 seconds 80.6 seconds
10% 104.0 seconds 99.1 seconds 94.4 seconds 89.9 seconds
25% 110.0 seconds 104.8 seconds 99.9 seconds 95.2 seconds
33.3% 112.3 seconds 107.0 seconds 102.0 seconds 97.2 seconds
Average 115.476 seconds 110.060 seconds 104.903 seconds 99.988 seconds
50% 116.1 seconds 110.7 seconds 105.5 seconds 100.5 seconds
66.6% 119.7 seconds 114.1 seconds 108.8 seconds 103.7 seconds
75% 121.6 seconds 115.9 seconds 110.5 seconds 105.4 seconds
90% 126.0 seconds 120.2 seconds 114.6 seconds 109.3 seconds
99% 132.7 seconds 126.6 seconds 120.7 seconds 115.1 seconds
99.9% 137.0 seconds 130.7 seconds 124.7 seconds 118.9 seconds
100% 213.767 seconds 203.067 seconds 192.933 seconds 183.267 seconds

With Lucky day, Serendipity, and Get lucky, the probabilities, after getting a Frenzy or Dragon Harvest, of getting a cookie with enough time for a full Click Frenzy or Dragonflight before the Frenzy ends, are as follows:

98 95 95+98 95x2 95x2+98 95x3 95x3+98 95x4
Frenzy+Click 76.9% 85.3% 94.2% 97.4% 99.5% 99.9% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Frenzy+Flight 93.9% 97.2% 99.5% 99.9% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Harvest+Click 0.3% 0.5% 1.2% 1.9% 3.6% 5.3% 9.3% 13.0% 20.8%
Harvest+Flight 1.6% 2.5% 4.7% 6.9% 11.8% 16.2% 25.4% 33.1% 47.2%
With

Epoch

Manipulator

Frenzy+Click 93.9% 97.2% 99.5% 99.9% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Frenzy+Flight 99.6% 99.9% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Harvest+Click 1.0% 1.6% 3.1% 4.6% 8.2% 11.5% 18.8% 25.0% 37.2%
Harvest+Flight 4.7% 6.9% 11.8% 16.3% 25.7% 33.4% 47.5% 57.8% 73.3%
With

Lasting

fortune

Frenzy+Click 99.6% 99.9% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Frenzy+Flight 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Harvest+Click 3.1% 4.7% 8.3% 11.8% 19.2% 25.5% 37.9% 47.4% 63.1%
Harvest+Flight 11.4% 15.9% 25.0% 32.7% 46.9% 56.9% 72.6% 81.6% 92.0%
With both Frenzy+Click 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Frenzy+Flight 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Harvest+Click 8.2% 11.6% 18.9% 25.3% 37.7% 47.0% 62.8% 72.9% 86.0%
Harvest+Flight 23.7% 31.1% 45.0% 55.1% 71.0% 80.1% 91.1% 95.6% 98.9%

The average lengths of time a stacked frenzy will last are, in seconds:

98 95 95+98 95x2 95x2+98 95x3 95x3+98 95x4
Frenzy+Click 25.008 25.473 25.844 25.943 25.992 25.998 26.000 26.000 26.000
Frenzy+Flight 19.825 19.935 19.990 19.998 20.000 20.000 20.000 20.000 20.000
Harvest+Click 3.048 4.050 5.983 7.493 10.105 11.892 14.693 16.459 18.971
Harvest+Flight 3.000 3.971 5.827 7.258 9.683 11.295 13.712 15.140 16.990
With

Epoch

Manipulator

Frenzy+Click 27.825 27.935 27.990 27.998 28.000 28.000 28.000 28.000 28.000
Frenzy+Flight 20.993 20.999 21.000 21.000 21.000 21.000 21.000 21.000 21.000
Harvest+Click 6.346 7.947 10.702 12.621 15.592 17.439 20.124 21.712 23.830
Harvest+Flight 6.175 7.688 10.235 11.954 14.491 15.962 17.893 18.883 19.973
With

Lasting

fortune

Frenzy+Click 28.993 28.999 29.000 29.000 29.000 29.000 29.000 29.000 29.000
Frenzy+Flight 22.000 22.000 22.000 22.000 22.000 22.000 22.000 22.000 22.000
Harvest+Click 11.055 13.058 16.150 18.108 20.913 22.541 24.744 25.932 27.337
Harvest+Flight 10.595 12.399 15.060 16.635 18.682 19.719 20.887 21.376 21.794
With both Frenzy+Click 31.000 31.000 31.000 31.000 31.000 31.000 31.000 31.000 31.000
Frenzy+Flight 24.000 24.000 24.000 24.000 24.000 24.000 24.000 24.000 24.000
Harvest+Click 17.472 19.532 22.469 24.205 26.524 27.757 29.240 29.922 30.576
Harvest+Flight 16.428 18.115 20.311 21.453 22.736 23.275 23.754 23.898 23.982

Outcomes

Note: The bold numbers only apply for your first cookie. There is an 80% chance that the cookie will be forced to be different from the previous effect. All chances are calculated from the source code. These numbers do not apply if the Dragonflight or Reaper of Fields auras are set. For all long term probability calculations, see Golden Cookie Probabilities. As of v.2.002, it appears as if effects such as Frenzy and Clot stack their multiplier effects instead of replacing each other.

  • 47.857% (47.121% long term) to get "Lucky!":
    • Gain an instant amount of cookies equal to 13 plus 15% of the current number of cookies in the bank, or 15 minutes worth of cookies (which is CpS * 900) plus 13, whichever is less.
      • For 15 minutes worth of cookies Wrinklers are not taken into account, so the CpS rate used is the rate before the Wrinklers consume part of it.
    • Stacks with Frenzy; if Frenzy is active when you get "Lucky," you can potentially get 15x7 = 105 minutes (or one hour and 45 minutes) worth of cookies.
Frenzy cookie
  • 47.857% (47.121% long term) to get "Frenzy":
    • Get x7 cookie production for 77 seconds.
    • Affects Cookies per Second, but does NOT affect Cookies per Click directly (although it indirectly affects cookies per click with the Plastic/Iron/Titanium/Adamantium/Unobtainium/Eludium/Wishalloy Mouse upgrades).
    • You can see how long you have left by using the golden bar at the bottom of the screen.
    • Doesn't stack with itself (getting a Frenzy while another Frenzy is active simply resets the timer).
  • 3.308% (4.429% long term) to get "Click frenzy":
    • Gives x777 cookies per click for 13 seconds.
    • Works only for manual clicking, not for Cursor's autoclicking
    • Can also indirectly stack with frenzy. After buying all the main "mouse" upgrades, your clicking power during frenzy increases by approx x7 because of the increase in CpS, so therefore getting a "Click frenzy" during a "Frenzy" yields roughly x5439 clicking power until either the "Frenzy" or "Click frenzy" ends.
  • 0.00323% (0.00441% long term) to get "blab" (really rare):
    • Does nothing but has a funny message, which includes:
      • Cookie crumbliness x3 for 60 seconds!
      • Chocolatiness x7 for 77 seconds!
      • Dough elasticity halved for 66 seconds!
      • Golden cookie shininess doubled for 3 seconds!
      • World economy halved for 30 seconds!
      • Grandma kisses 23% stingier for 45 seconds!
      • Thanks for clicking!
      • Fooled you! This one was just a test.
      • Golden cookies clicked +1!
      • Your click has been registered. Thank you for your cooperation.
      • Thanks! That hit the spot!
      • Thank you. A team has been dispatched.
      • They know.
      • Oops. This was just a chocolate cookie with shiny aluminium foil.
File:COOKIE CHAIN3.png

a long cookie chain

  • 0.975% (1.324% long term) to start a "Cookie chain":
    • If the number of cookies in your bank is less than 10 billion, the first cookie you click in the chain will reward you with +7 cookies, and 3 seconds after being clicked another cookie will appear which grants +77 cookies, and then the third +777 cookies, and so on. If the number of cookies in your bank has reached 10 billion but less than 100 billion, the cookie chain will start from +77 cookies, and when reached 100 billion it will start from +777 cookies, and so on.
    • However, each cookie only appears for a limited amount of time, decreasing as you proceed. The first cookie stays onscreen for 10 seconds, the second for 5, the third for 3 1/3, the fourth for 2.5, and the fifth cookie and every one thereafter for 2. The chain ends if you fail to click a cookie before it disappears. (Fortunately these are instant-on, there is no "fade-in") This lifespan will NOT be increased by Lucky Day or Serendipity. Should you miss the cookie, a random new cookie will spawn in about 3 seconds. As of patch 1.0465, should that cookie be allowed to disappear naturally, the next one will appear after a similar amount of time (making deer synchronization easier), presumably ad infinitum. As of v.2.002, another cookie does not appear to spawn if the chain is broken.
    • There are a few things that can cause the chain to break:
      • There is a flat 1% probability of the chain ending on its own, on every cookie.
      • The chain will end if the reward that would have been obtained by clicking the next cookie in sequence is more than 25% of your bank. (That is, your bank is less than 4x the value of the next cookie.) The next cookie is assumed to be of the same type as the current cookie, Wrath or Golden, for this calculation.
      • The chain will end if the reward that would have been obtained from the next cookie in sequence is more than 6 hours of automatically collected cookies (That is, 21600 times your CpS). It is affected by Frenzy, so it can be 42 hours, assuming you have enough cookies in your bank.
      • As of patch 1.0466, if the  the outcome of the new cookie is more than the current maximum (due to either the Frenzy running out or Wrath/Gold alternation), you get 6 or 42 hours income exactly instead.
      • Other than these, there is no cap.
    • An easy way to get the most cookies out of a chain is minimising the screen until only a small part of the clickable cookie is visible. That way the cookie chain spawn will only appear in that area and you can get the highest chain possible.
    • Golden Cookies will not start chains until you have at least 100,000 cookies baked all time.
    • The following table shows the rewards and requirements for each level of the chain:
Rewards for Cookie Chain
Clicks Cookies in bank needed Cookies per second needed Base Cookies per second needed to get reward in during "Frenzy" Reward
1 3,111,111,108 72,017 10,289 777,777,777
2 31,111,111,108 720,165 102,881 7,777,777,777
3 311,111,111,108 7,201,647 1,028,807 77,777,777,777
4 3,111,111,111,108 72,016,461 10,288,066 777,777,777,777
5 31.111×1012(T) 720.164×106(M) 102.880×106(M) 7.777×1012(T)
6 311.111×1012(T) 7.201×109(B) 1.028×109(B) 77.777×1012(T)
7 3.111×1015(Qa) 72.016×109(B) 10.288×109(B) 777.777×1012(T)
8 31.111×1015(Qa) 720.164×109(B) 102.880×109(B) 7.777×1015(Qa)
9 311.111×1015(Qa) 7.201×1012(T) 1.028×1012(T) 77.777×1015(Qa)
10 3.111×1018(Qi) 72.016×1012(T) 10.288×1012(T) 777.777×1015(Qa)
11 31.111×1018(Qi) 720.164×1012(T) 102.880×1012(T) 7.777×1018(Qi)
12 311.111×1018(Qi) 7.201×1015(Qa) 1.028×1015(Qa) 77.777×1018(Qi)
13 3.111×1021(Sx) 72.016×1015(Qa) 10.288×1015(Qa) 777.777×1018(Qi)
14 31.111×1021(Sx) 720.164×1015(Qa) 102.880×1015(Qa) 7.777×1021(Sx)
15 311.111×1021(Sx) 7.201×1018(Qi) 1.028×1018(Qi) 77.777×1021(Sx)
16 3.111×1024(Sp) 72.016×1018(Qi) 10.288×1018(Qi) 777.777×1021(Sx)
  • ?% to start "Dragon Harvest" (requires Krumblor, cookie dragon):
    • Get x15 cookie production for 60 seconds.
    • Requires Reaper of Fields aura to be active on Krumblor.
  • ?% to get "Dragonflight" (requires Krumblor, cookie dragon):
    • Gives x1111 cookies per click for 10 seconds.
    • Works only for manual clicking, not for Cursor's autoclicking
    • Can also indirectly stack with frenzy. After buying all the main "mouse" upgrades, your clicking power during frenzy increases by approx x7 because of the increase in CpS, so therefore getting a "Dragonflight" during a "Frenzy" yields roughly x7777 clicking power until either the "Frenzy" or "Dragonflight" ends.
    • Requires Dragonflight aura to be active on Krumblor.
  • ?% to get "Cookie Storm" (beta):
    • A massive amount of Golden Cookies appears everywhere on the screen for 7 seconds, each granting you 1-7 minutes worth of cookies.
    • Those cookies do not count for clicked/missed Golden Cookies counters.
  • ?% to get a building special (beta):
    • Get a variable bonus to cookie production for 30 seconds.
    • Possible specials: High-five (Cursors), Congregation (Grandmas), Luxuriant harvest (Farms), Ore vein (Mines), Oiled-up (Factories), Juicy profits (Banks), Fervent adoration (Temples), Manabloom (Wizard towers), Delicious lifeforms (Shipments), Breakthrough (Alchemy labs), Righteous cataclysm (Portals), Golden ages (Time machines), Extra cycles (Antimatter condensers), Solar flare (Prisms).
    • You need at least 10 buildings of a type to get its special. One of available specials is chosen at random.
    • Production bonus equals 10% per building of corresponding type, meaning 10 buildings will give you +100% (x2), 20 will give you +200% (x3), and so on.
    • Stacks with Frenzy; if Frenzy and a building special bonus are active at the same time, the bonuses are multiplied. For example, having 50 Cursors during a High-five while a Frenzy is active will grant 42x production for the duration of the stacked bonuses.
  • ?% to get "Everything must go" (Business Day season only) (beta):
    • All buildings are 5% cheaper for 5 seconds.

Strategy

The golden cookie may fail to spawn the first time you start a new game on a browser with no saved Cookie Clicker data. This happens if minTime and maxTime do not get set properly. If you are going for a "true neverclick" run, reload Cookie Clicker after "Game saved" first appears.

Before obtaining the golden cookie upgrades you can time roughly when the next one will appear based on when you clicked on the last one. The minimum time between each is 5 minutes without upgrades. This makes getting the 7 and 27 clicks needed to buy Lucky Day and Serendipity easier. After you get the upgrades there's less of a need to time them as they appear frequently. With both upgrades, if you get a Frenzy outcome; the earliest time a new Golden Cookie can spawn is thirty seconds before the frenzy ends.

By keeping a large sum of cookies in your bank at any given point you can maximize the returns of the "Lucky" outcome. The maximum available from a Lucky outcome is 900 times your current CpS (15 minutes of production,) or 15% of your current banked cookies. The game chooses the lower number, so for maximum gain from lucky cookies you need to have 6,000 times your CpS in the bank. If you have that amount in your bank, both upgrades and get all the golden cookies on average every 4 minutes and 50 seconds you'll receive 15 minutes worth of production from "Lucky" and 7.7 minutes from "Frenzy", which is equivalent to a 470% CpS bonus, not counting the other outcomes. This makes Lucky Day and Serendipity some of the most powerful upgrades in the game, if you're willing to invest the time into watching for golden cookies.

On the other hand, banking cookies ties up resources that you could use to buy cookie-producing buildings instead. With Serendipity, and assuming you hit all golden cookies, each banked cookie earns 0.15 cookies on average every 290 seconds, so each additional average cookie-per-second from "Lucky" costs 1933⅓ cookies. As long as the price of buildings hasn't increased too much, buying them immediately without banking is a cheaper way to improve your CpS -- especially because "Frenzy" applies only to building income (roughly doubling every building's effective CpS) but doesn't affect the interest rate from banking. If the building you're considering buying costs less than 1,933⅓ times twice its net CpS contribution, you should buy it as soon as you can afford it. In practical terms, if your antimatter condensers are upgraded to String theory but not Large macaron collider, you should start banking only when the next condenser will cost about 1,400,000 times your CpS multiplier. This threshold will be proportionally higher if you don't anticipate hitting all of the golden cookies.

  • A trick to make golden cookies easier to see is to resize the browser window to an area so the golden cookie is easily clicked. The golden cookie always appears somewhere within the area of the browser window. When the area is restricted in such a way it only takes a quick glance to check if a golden cookie has appeared.
  • This strategy is also very helpful during cookie chains. When zoomed in, golden and wrath cookies appear larger so you're less likely to break the chain by missing a cookie.

'Get Lucky' Upgrade

With the introduction of the Get Lucky upgrade, banking more than 42,000 seconds of cookies becomes a viable strategy. The doubled duration of the "Frenzy" outcome means "Lucky" golden cookies can potentially give you up to 900 times your CpS including the boost from the frenzy, or 6,300 times your base CpS (105 minutes of cookies!), assuming that the amount is less than 15% of your banked cookies. Due to the reduced probability of getting the same type of golden cookie twice in a row, the golden cookie following a "Frenzy" has almost a 90% chance of being a "Lucky". 

Once you have Get Lucky, the "Click frenzy" can appear while already in a "Frenzy". This combo can lead to massive cookie creation. If you also have all the "mouse" upgrades, giving you 7% of your CpS per click, with an average of 6 clicks per second for 25 seconds (you usually lose a second moving the cursor onto the cookie), you can receive up to approximately 17⅓ hours of production not including the clicking bonuses from the Cursor upgrades (excluded from the calculation because of how variable the bonuses are) which can boost the final result to well over half a day's worth of production. With keyboard clicking (like the MouseKeys feature) enabled, the total figure can easily be in the neighbourhood of CpS*150,000.

Another Golden Cookie "combo" that is made possible by Get Lucky is a Frenzied Cookie Chain. The rewards at each level are not changed, but the income cap does take the Frenzy into account, therefore you may be able to get a higher "top reward" than you would otherwise get without the frenzy. (Specifically, this benefit occurs if the first seven sig figs of your base income lie between 1.028807 and 7.201646). Achieving this combo can grant a bonus of anywhere between 10800 and 75600 times the CpS, above what the chain would otherwise have given you.

Note that this also makes it entirely possible for a second "regular" Frenzy to occur whilst one is already in play. In this case, the effects do not stack; instead, it merely resets the duration of the 7x multiplier back to 154 seconds immediately following the second Golden Cookie click, not after the expiry of the first Frenzy. Similarly, triggering an Elder Frenzy (666x multiplier for 12 seconds) does not stack the multipliers, but instead replaces the Frenzy with the Elder Frenzy entirely.

The brinksmanship of knowing just how long to leave a cookie on-screen before clicking it in order to maximise your cookie production thus depends on having a good eye for the Frenzy's timer bar, in order to click it when just over 26 seconds are left in case of a "Frenzy" + "Click Frenzy" overlap combo. Keep in mind, though, that the amount of cookies lost by cutting a Frenzy short by a few seconds is relatively minimal, and that in most cases clicking the Golden Cookies as soon as they appear is sufficient.

Conversely, clicking a Golden Cookie during a Clot period may shorten the deficit from the "Clot" (by ending it immediately and replacing with a Frenzy) but may also reduce the benefit of a "Lucky" or of a "Click Frenzy". So on balance, it is likely to be worth leaving the Golden Cookie as late as possible or until the "Clot" has ended.

Trivia

  • The effect "Frenzy" was previously x2 cookie production for 60 seconds
  • The effect "Lucky" was previously instant boost of cookies equal to 20% (currently 15%) of the current cookies plus 13
  • The upgrade "Get Lucky" and its associated text are a reference to the Daft Punk song by the same name.
  • All Golden Cookie-related achievements are based on all time clicks, not clicks from the current game.
  • Because Golden Cookie-related upgrades are based on all-time clicks, if you unlock the 'Get Lucky' upgrade and reset, once you click one golden cookie, all three upgrades become available.
  • Cookie Blabs are titled "???" in the notification (where "Frenzy" or "Lucky" usually appear).
  • According to a news statement, Golden Cookies taste "somewhere between spearmint and liquorice".
  • In the Easter version of the game, the Golden Cookie image is replaced by a bunny; in the Valentine's Day version, it is replaced by a candy heart.
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