- For the same building in Cookie Clicker Classic, see Grandma (Cookie Clicker Classic).
The Grandma is the main antagonist of Cookie Clicker Classic and the 1.0 Update, and the second cheapest building you can purchase with an initial cost of 100 cookies. She produces cookies at a base rate of 1 cookie per second.
Unlike the building before it and after it, Grandmas progress with later buildings very well with the grandma type upgrades, most of which double its efficiency but require 15 or more of a superior building to purchase, and sometimes can be quite expensive, up to 7,500,000,000,000 cookies for Rainbow Grandmas. After all upgrades, each grandma has a CpS of 104857.6 cookies per second herself, not counting the bonuses from One mind, Communal brainsweep, and Elder Pact.
Once you get all the grandma types up to Grandma's Grandmas (requiring 15 time machines and costing 12,345,678,900 cookies), you unlock the Bingo Center/Research Facility, which (as of 1.036) is currently the only upgrade to make a building four times as efficient, although its price of 100,000,000,000 cookies means it'll be a while until it's worth the cost. This will unlock a new upgrade after 30 minutes (research only starting once the last item researched is purchased), including five multiplier upgrades (Specialized Chocolate Chips for +1% and costing 10,000,000,000 cookies, Designer Cocoa Beans for +2% and costing 20,000,000,000 cookies, Underworld Ovens for +3% and costing 80,000,000,000 cookies, Exotic Nuts for +4% and costing 320,000,000,000 cookies, and Arcane Sugar for +5% and costing 1,280,000,000,000 cookies), one upgrade to double Grandma efficiency (Ritual Rolling Pins for 40,000,000,000 cookies), and three upgrades to greatly increase Grandma output but start the Grandmapocalypse (One Mind for 160,000,000,000 cookies and Communal Brainsweep for 640,000,000,000 cookies, which each give each grandma +1 base CpS per 50 grandmas, and Elder Pact for 2,560,000,000,000 cookies which gives each grandma +1 base CpS per 20 portals. After all the doubling upgrades those figures are a LOT higher than that.)
In theory, fully upgraded Grandmas are the most efficient building a player can buy because they have a CpS based on the number of Grandmas purchased. That is, the Grandma's CpS rate increases as a square where other CpS rates increase linearly. However, the crossover point where Grandmas outperform the best other building, the Prism, requires purchasing so many grandmas that it is impossible even via cheating, since the price would be much higher than JavaScript (which Cookie Clicker is written in) can store.
Each fully upgraded grandma produces cookies according to the following formula:
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Achievements
| Icon | Name | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:GrandmaAchieve.png | Just wrong | Sell a grandma. "I thought you loved me." |
39 |
| File:RollingPin.png | Grandma's cookies | Have 1 grandma. | 40 |
| File:GoldRollingPin.png | Sloppy kisses | Have 50 grandmas. | 41 |
| File:PinkRollingPin.png | Retirement home | Have 100 grandmas. | 42 |
| File:DiamondRollingPin.png | Friend of the ancients | Have 150 grandmas. | 101 |
| File:Ach RulerOfAncients.png | Ruler of the ancients | Have 200 grandmas. | 102 |
| File:The old never bothered me anyway.png | The old never bothered me anyway | Have 250 grandmas. | 149 |
| The agemaster | Have 300 grandmas. | ||
| To oldly go | Have 350 grandmas. | ||
| File:RollingPin.png | Gushing grannies | Make 10 quintillion cookies just from grandmas. | 135 |
| Panic at the bingo | Make 10 sextillion cookies just from grandmas. | ||
| File:GrandmaAchieve.png | Elder | Own at least 7 grandma types. | 81 |
Upgrades
- For upgrades in beta versions of Cookie Clicker (if any), see Cookie Clicker Beta.
Grandma types
- For upgrades in beta versions of Cookie Clicker (if any), see Cookie Clicker Beta.
Since the 1.032 update, grandmas now have varying appearances based off the above upgrades.
Grandmas have a specific Santa upgrade.
| Icon | Name | Unlocked at | Price (cookies) | Description | ID # |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Naughty list | purchasing A festive hat or a Santa upgrade | 2,525 | Grandmas are twice as productive. "This list contains every unholy deed perpetuated by grandmakind. He won't be checking this one twice. Once. Once is enough." |
162 |
The Bingo Center/Research Facility can also unlock new upgrades for grandma. Although these upgrades can make grandmas more powerful, they would unlock the Grandmapocalypse as well. The following is a list of all upgrades for Grandma, unlocked in the Bingo Center/Research Facility.
| Icon | Name | Price (cookies) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Bingo.png | Bingo center/research facility | 1 quadrillon | Grandma-operated science lab and leisure club. Grandmas are 4 times as efficient. Regularly unlocks new upgrades."What could possibly keep those grandmothers in check?... -Bingo" |
| File:Cookieclicker.png | Ritual rolling pins | 40 billion | Grandmas are twice as efficient. "The result of years of scientific research!" |
| File:Cookieclicker2.png | One mind | 160 billion | Each Grandma gains +1 base CpS for each 50 grandmas. Note: the grandmothers are growing restless. Do not encourage them. "We are one. We are many." |
| File:Brainsweep.png | Communal brainsweep | 640 billion | Each Grandma gains +1 base CpS for each 50 grandmas. Note: proceeding any further in scientific research may have unexpected results. You have been warned. "We fuse. We merge. We grow." |
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Elder Pact | 2.56 trillion | Each Grandma gains +1 base CpS for each 20 portals. Note: this is a bad idea. "squirm crawl slither writhe today we rise" |
Background changes during Grandmapocalypse
- Main article: Grandmapocalypse
Stage 1
Stage 2
Final Stage
Changes from one stage to another can be obtained by the One Mind, Communal Brainsweep and Elder Pact upgrade. Once they're appeased, the background will change back to normal temporarily.
Store icon changes during the Grandmapocalypse
Since version 1.0393, the store icon for Grandmas will change depending on the state of the Grandmapocalypse.
When the Grandmatriarchs are appeased, the store icon will change back to normal.
Trivia
- In the end, once you reach the "cap" of grandmas and portals, grandmas will be producing 59,177,697.28 cookies each (Over a third of a fully upgraded prism), or 298,610,660,474.88 total.
- If you hacked and lag was eliminated, a grandma could produce 1.5876e+307 (15.876 uncentillion) cookies per second.
- The bunny grandmas are a direct reference to the science-fiction movie Donnie Darko.
- The grandma related achievement, "Gushing Grannies" is a reference to prank by 4chan in which the poll for naming a new flavor of Mountain Dew was rigged and "Gushing Grannies" was among the most popular
- Grandma's store icon and one of her quotes, "Moist cookies" are based on an image macro which is in turn based on Helen Thomas, a former member of the White House press corps.
- There is still a possibility of obtaining the nice quotes after you have over 49 grandmas, however, they also say mean and rather creepy things, even without selling them.
- The quotes "It has betrayed us, the filthy little thing" and "It tried to get rid of us, the nasty little thing" are based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings character, Gollum.
- The quotes "It begins", "It'll all be over soon" and "You could have stopped it" are based on the image macro series "Doom Paul", featuring U.S. politician Ron Paul.
- The achievement 'The old never bothered me anyway' is based on the Disney movie 'Frozen', in which the character Elsa (voiced by Idina Mezel) sings a similar line in the song 'Let It Go', replacing "cold" with "old."
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