Christmas Cracker Watch List Settings
Alchemy |
HIGH |
LOW |
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1 |
1 |
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| Profit/Loss compared to GE |
Loss -2,147,483,646 |
Loss -2,147,483,646 |
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| GE Profit/Loss with nature |
Loss -2,147,484,032 |
Loss -2,147,484,032 |
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| GE Profit/Loss with nature and fire |
Loss -2,147,484,322 |
Loss -2,147,484,322 |
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The values listed below are for straight alchemy and do not compare to the GE market price. |
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| Profit/Loss with nature |
Loss -385 |
Loss -385 |
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| Profit/Loss with nature and fire |
Loss -675 |
Loss -559 |
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The Christmas Cracker is likely the rarest of all RuneScape items, though there is no real way to confirm this concept. Released at Christmas time in 2001, it was simply a holiday drop that inadvertently created a market structure that continues even a decade later.
Christmas crackers are a common holiday item in the UK and many of her former territories. A cracker is basically a brightly colored tube that contains a small prize or gift. Two people, usually at holiday dinner, will grab hold of each end of the cracker and pull, similar to the US tradition of pulling on a turkey wishbone on Thanksgiving. As the cracker is pulled a bang or pop is created and the prize is revealed. Typically the prize is a paper hat or other small trinket.
The RuneScape version rewards both players who pulled on the cracker. One player would receive a random RuneScape item, and the other person would receive one of six random Party Hats.
At the time, Party Hats were valueless, providing no real advantage in the game. Thus many players simply discarded the hats. Jagex left the item as tradeable even after discontinuing the item, inadvertently creating an item with no supply. Players caught on and the laws of supply and demand, making the cracker and its six party hats the most valuable items in the RuneScape economy.
The Christmas Cracker is incredibly rare and almost never traded on the Grand Exchange. Even though this item is below the theoretical programming language limit for trades in the GE, the cracker is usually traded privately for values well beyond anything the GE can give for prices. It is so rare that it is believed the Christmas Cracker may become extinct sometime in the future, but its remaining numbers haven't been confirmed so there is no way of knowing how long it will continue to exist in the game.
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