It's the 21st here now! Four more sleeps to go!

It's now Dec 19th, so our big re-release day is over. I hope you all had good luck yesterday!

Today's the last day for the Famous Characters Dressup Challenge!
Looks like we have a lot of Doctor Who, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Frozen fans

Make sure you don't miss our new December 18th pets Dressup Challenge!

There's a new Dress Up Challenge available for your Dec 18th pets!

We're all pretty familiar with the look of grown-up pets on CS, even the old rare pets from years past. But we hardly ever get to see what they looked like when they were first 'born'.

Since many old pets have just been born again as Dec 18th pets, now's your chance to take a snapshot of these babies, or just show off your good luck

Good luck with the Advent gift today! Please make sure you've read the recent news posts explaining our December 18th tradition

Useful topics to post in after adopting your Dec 18th pets:
Dec 18th discussion topic
How much is this pet worth?/What is this pet?
Fair Trade Thread

If you're a COPPA player and can't post in the forum to ask about your pets, you can send a help ticket to get general advice or help with identification from General Helpers/Staff.

Don't even think about cheating for extra Dec 18th pets!

Remember that you are only allowed to have one account. If you create more accounts to get more than your fair share of pets, that is considered cheating. It is also cheating if you use friends and family to send you all their stuff for free.

December 18th is our most heavily-monitored release, and people who cheat get picked up very quickly and easily in our cheating detection system. It's a shame to have to ban a ton of people right before Christmas, so please play fair and stick to the one account per person rule.

Trade fair, play fair, and stick to the rules.

Have you heard about December 18th on CS?

You might have heard people talking about "December 18th" and "re-releases". If you haven't participated in our Advent Calendar before then this may be new to you. It's just about time for the Dec 18th release, so please read this information so that you understand what it all means!

Each year on December 18th, we have an extra special gift in the advent calendar. The Dec 18th giftbox is full of hundreds of different pets which have been released before over the past 6 years - many of these are rare and valuable. You will have the chance to adopt a few, but like all gifts the pets you receive are randomly chosen, so some people will be luckier than others.

You may not recognize the pets you receive, but there is a good chance that they will be valuable pets with a high trading value! They will generally be worth much more than any other pets in the Advent Calendar.

We recommend that you don't trade your pets away until you are sure you understand how much they are worth. You don't want to get ripped off by someone who offers you low-value pets for your new rares. Many older members intentionally seek out new members and COPPA members on Dec 18th so they can try to rip them off with unfair trade offers. Please take your time and don't rush to accept any offers until you're sure that it feels like a good deal for you.

Click here to ask players for help working out which pet you got and how much it's worth.

If you're a COPPA player and can't post in the forum to ask about your pets, we recommend that you wait until your pets are fully grown before you trade them, so that you can work out which outcomes you have and what their rarity is. You can also send a help ticket to get general advice or help with identification from General Helpers/Staff if you are unable to post in the forum.

The Dec 18th giveaway gives you a random chance of adopting pets from earlier months/years, but it's not a guarantee that you'll get a Very Rare from 2008 or 2009, you might just get Rares from 2014. The giveaway's purpose is to bring all sorts of old and rare pets back into the active trading population so that they're a little less difficult to get in trades, but we don't want to dramatically lower their value, so we can't give everyone a Sunback or a Zebra (for example). If we did that, those ultra rare pets would become worthless Very Commons overnight. If you are disappointed by what you receive on the 18th please don't complain and don't feel sad, because even if you were a bit unlucky on the day, the re-release benefits everyone long-term by making trading for older rares slightly easier for everyone again.

Multi-accounting to get more Dec 18th pets is super obvious and easy to detect, so unless you want to get banned, it's better to play fair. Please note: It is considered cheating if you get family or friends to sign up so they can send you free pets or send you all their Dec 18th pets without getting a fair swap in return. Don't make any extra accounts for yourself, and make sure that your trades are fair if you are trading with family and friends. If an account is being used just so that person can adopt extra things for you, then that is cheating.

Hanukkah is now over, but there are still 10 more sleeps til Christmas! Don't miss today's gorgeous gift from Emberwolf!

It's now the last day of our 2015 Hanukkah celebrations. Make sure you pick up the final gift on the Hanukkah page!

It's also day 14 of the Advent, looks like Santa Berkshire is bringing us coal this year...