Winter Festival (2023)

**Winter Festival** is the name of the event for Christmas 2023, beginning on December 21, 2023 (12:00 AM, local time) and ending on January 3, 2024 (11:59 PM, local time). This event was available in version 5.3.0.

The final event gift, **Holly's Box**, was chosen based on players' votes for their favorite character in the event and released in version 5.4.0.

## Plot

Jingles arrives in Pizza City once again, bringing other animal friends to your pizzeria. You are to serve them their orders while they spend their time on the city.

## Animal friends and hearts

### Requirements

In this event, seven new animal friends will come to your pizzeria and order from you. Each animal has their own required topping before they can visit your pizzeria.

* Albert the Singing Seal: Eggplant
* Felix the Arctic Fox, Holly the Snowy Owl: Sausage
* The Gull Brothers: None
* Mama and Little Capy, Pippin the Penguin: Olive
* Winston the Reindeer: Bell Pepper

### Hearts

You can give hearts () to each of the animals. Each animal has three heart levels and you need to give a total of 45  for max heart level. At max heart level, the animal will give you a gift at the end of the in-game day and you can still continue giving more hearts to them. How many hearts given to an animal will determine their place in your personal or the global popularity rankings. You can also earn more hearts by watching an ad or paying with Pizza Gems and you can give a maximum of 1,000  per real-life day.

### Missions and challenges

You earn hearts by doing missions: serve 8 perfect pizzas and serve 5 happy customers. Each real-life day allows you to earn 3  per mission for the first 12 missions. Afterwards, you can only earn 1  per mission.

Every 6 real-life hours, Jingles will come with a challenge with a time limit. Complete the challenge within the time limit and Jingles will give you the number of hearts he promises. You can double the reward by paying 2 . If you fail a challenge, you can extend the time limit for 15 minutes by watching an ad or paying 1  or give it up. Consecutive failures require you to pay more gems if you wish to keep extending the time.

## List of orders

Main article: List of orders § Winter Festival 2023
## Event activities

There are three types of activities you can do during the event: play 3 in-game days, give 25 Hearts, and finish 4 Quests. Every activity has 15 levels, which you can skip to a higher one using gems.

## Gallery

### Story

Jingles visiting your pizzeria once againKimmy Slice looking forward to meet the animal friendsAlbert the singing seal's first visit in your pizzeriaThe Capy family's first visit in your pizzeriaFelix the Arctic fox's first visit in your pizzeriaThe Gull Brothers' first visit in your pizzeriaHolly the snowy owl's first visit in your pizzeriaPippin the penguin's first visit in your pizzeriaWinston the reindeer's first visit in your pizzeriaJingles and the other animal friends about to leave Pizza City
### Interface

The event's introductionThe game's start screen during the event's periodPromotion for Christmas- and Winter-themed decorationsThe event on the Story appThe interface for giving Hearts to the animals (personal ranking)Global Heart rankings for the animalsJingles giving you a challengeCompleting a challengeFailing a challengeReaching max hearts with AlbertAlbert giving you a gift after reaching max hearts with himThe event's endingFinal event gift based on players' votes (available in version 5.4.0)
### Miscellaneous

A mother and a baby wearing Christmas hatsThe outside of your pizzeria (through the window) during the eventYour garden during the event
## Notes

1. ↑ Expires December 17, 2023
2. ↑ Available December 14, 2023-January 3, 2024 (local time)

## References

1. ↑ Winter Festival 2023 promotion (Twitter)
2. ↑ Winter Festival 2023 requirements (Twitter)
3. ↑ Winter Festival 2023 final winter prize (Twitter)
4. ↑ The new Mrs. Claus' Clock gift code (Twitter)
5. ↑ Requirements for and the expiry date of the new gift code
6. ↑ Requirements for getting the Jolly Red Stocking (Twitter)