# Has the chance for skulls to drop increased?

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/has-the-chance-for-skulls-to-drop-increased/72391>\
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\
**Created:** [October 28, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/has-the-chance-for-skulls-to-drop-increased/72391 "2021-10-28T17:14:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![beeflog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/beeflog/32/61703_2.png) [@beeflog](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/beeflog)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/has-the-chance-for-skulls-to-drop-increased/72391/1 "2021-10-28T17:14:34Z")

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It feels like twice as many skulls as usual are on the board; like there is a constant bonestorm in the background. Has anyone else noticed this? Can anyone offer supporting or countermanding evidence based on their automated GoW bots? (@Kafka does your friend track % of each gem that falls over the long run? @EliteMasterEric are you still around? You did a lot of the original work that I’m aware of on gem chances to drop…)

I’m not usually one to post anecdotal/confirmation bias type questions, but a number of other folks have noticed the same thing in various community discords, which leads me to ask whether there was an un-announced change or maybe mistake made when lycanthropy and uberdoom skulls were added back…

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**Author:** ![EliteMasterEric](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/elitemastereric/32/59948_2.png) [@EliteMasterEric](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/EliteMasterEric)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/has-the-chance-for-skulls-to-drop-increased/72391/2 "2021-11-22T04:57:15Z")

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I haven’t been very active in the game as of late, so I’m sorry I never noticed your post.

Regarding this, I doubt they would have explicitly updated the drop rate of skulls, and what you’re seeing is likely to be observation bias.

As for whether things have ACTUALLY changed, I couldn’t tell you, since a few updates back they made it a LOT harder to inspect how the game determines these things.

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**Author:** ![Mithran](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mithran/32/18064_2.png) [@Mithran](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mithran)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/has-the-chance-for-skulls-to-drop-increased/72391/3 "2021-11-22T06:10:17Z")

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This post was made during a “holiday skulls” period I believe, where there has been observed in the past a phenomenon where many people at least get the _feeling_ that skull drops have significantly increased. This has thus far been written off as an observational bias due to the themed skulls having a much higher contrast from the rest of the board. There has been to my knowledge no data gathering effort to prove otherwise.