Not quite sure why people are hating this game so much. With minimal thinking about how to eliminate the board pieces, you have quite a lot of control over the amount of points you gain, and thereby it's not that difficult to end up in the Top 5% and get the Panda Shrine Kit for free.
Yes, paws can be few and far between sometimes on the board; but again, you just gotta be careful with how you move the pieces and apply helpers. I already have 5 upgrade kits for the building, and with 12 more days to go, I'm pretty sure I could get the remaining 3 without much difficulty.
My only criticisms are:
- To have two Level 1 buildings in the inventory (one at the start, and the other after 100 paws) is a bit odd; an extra ticket instead would make a bit more sense to me.
- The building doesn't drop the "super building" fragments (which the Druid Hut did), so if you don't get into Top 5% of point gatherers or manage to collect all fragment kits by collecting paws, you're out of luck.
- Avatars as rewards are also kinda lame, and again, extra tickets instead would be a bit more welcome.
Otherwise, I quite like this mini-game, for the amount of control over the outcome that it gives, and for the fact that free tickets appear on their own every 8 hours (plus a daily one). Definitely more enjoyable to play in that regard than Halloween, Forge Bowl, and its other clones.