Grimoire

The Grimoire interface

The Grimoire is a minigame added on July 15, 2017, Version 2.0034. It is unlocked by spending one sugar lump to upgrade Wizard Towers to level 1.

It has several spells that can be cast:

Icon	Name	Magic Cost	Spell/Backfire Effects
File:Grimoireicons 01.png	Conjure Baked Goods	2 magic +40% of max magic	Summon half an hour worth of your CpS, capped at 15% of your cookies owned. 15% chance to backfire: Trigger a 15-minute clot and lose 15 minutes of CpS.
File:Grimoireicons 02.png	Force the Hand of Fate	10 magic +60% of max magic	Summon a random golden cookie. Each existing golden cookie makes this spell +15% more likely to backfire. 15% chance to backfire: Summon an unlucky wrath cookie.
File:Grimoireicons 03.png	Stretch Time	8 magic +20% of max magic	All active buffs gain 10% more time (up to 5 more minutes). 15% chance to backfire: All active buffs are shortened by 20% (up to 10 minutes shorter).
File:Grimoireicons 04.png	Spontaneous Edifice	20 magic +75% of max magic	The spell picks a random building you could afford if you had twice your current cookies, and gives it to you for free. The building selected must be under 400, and cannot be your most-built one (unless it is your only one). 15% chance to backfire: Lose a random building.
File:Grimoireicons 05.png	Haggler's Charm	10 magic +10% of max magic	Upgrades are 2% cheaper for 1 minute. 15% chance to backfire: Upgrades are 2% more expensive for an hour. Flavor text: "What's that spell? Loadsamoney!"
File:Grimoireicons 06.png	Summon Crafty Pixies	10 magic +20% of max magic	Buildings are 2% cheaper for 1 minute. 15% chance to backfire: Buildings are 2% more expensive for an hour.
File:Grimoireicons 07.png	Gambler's Fever Dream	3 magic +5% of max magic	Cast a random spell at half the magic cost, with twice the chance of backfiring.
File:Grimoireicons 08.png	Resurrect Abomination	20 magic +10% of max magic	Instantly summon a wrinkler if conditions are fulfilled. 15% chance to backfire: Pop one of your wrinklers.
File:Grimoireicons 09.png	Diminish Ineptitude	5 magic +20% of max magic	Spells backfire 10 times less for the next 5 minutes. 15% chance to backfire: Spells backfire 5 times more for the next 10 minutes.

Each spell costs magic to use. Your maximum amount of magic varies depending on your amount of wizard towers, as well as their building level. Magic refills over time; the lower your magic meter, the slower it refills. Alternatively, up to 100 can be refilled instantly by using a sugar lump.

Selling wizard towers will reduce the maximum limit of the magic meter, but not the current magic (unless the new maximum limit is below the current magic). This allows casting Force the Hand of Fate once, then selling wizard towers to reduce the cost of a second cast. For instance, at 100 magic / 100 max magic, the first Force spell would cost 70 magic, leaving 30 magic available. Selling towers to reduce the maximum magic to 30 will make the cost of a second Force spell to go down to 28 magic, effectively allowing a double cast without the use of a sugar lump. This exploit can be used for an easier and less expensive way to get the Four-leaf cookie shadow achievement.

Conjure Baked Goods

An optimal strategy for using the "Conjure Baked Goods" spell would be to wait until you have a large production multiplier. A good time to cast it is when the golden cookie effect "Frenzy" and the wrath cookie effect "Elder frenzy" are both active, as this will earn you 30 minutes of x4662 your cookie production. It is also possible to gain even larger multipliers, for example with the help of Force the Hand of Fate. (It is limited to 15% of the current bank so plan accordingly.)

Outcome of Force the Hand of Fate

The mechanism of this spell follows a random list mechanism.

For golden cookie, the rules are:

• Add Frenzy and Lucky to a pool.
• If there is no Dragonflight buff active, add Click Frenzy.
• 10% chance to add Storm (added twice) and Blab to the pool.
• 25% chance to add Building Special, if you own more than or equal to 10 total buildings.
  • For all buildings of which you own more than or equal to 10, choose one and buff according to the chosen building's amount. If no building has such quantity, choose Frenzy.
• 15% chance to replace the pool with Storm Drop.
• 0.01% chance to add Free Sugar Lump to the pool.
• Pick a random effect from the pool.

In the following, we assume at least one building's number is more or equal to 10.

The final results are:

No Dragonflight buff
	Frenzy=Lucky=C. Frenzy	Storm	Blab	Building	StormDrop	Sugar
Exact	$\frac{566086723}{2240000000}$	$\frac{1223983}{44800000}$	$\frac{1223983}{89600000}$	$\frac{113897773}{2240000000}$	$\frac{59997}{400000}$	$\frac{60133}{2240000000}$
Approx.	25.27172871%	2.732104911%	1.366052455%	5.084722009%	14.99925%	0.002684508929%

With Dragonflight buff
	Frenzy=Lucky	Storm	Blab	Building	StormDrop	Sugar
Exact	$\frac{410933877}{1120000000}$	$\frac{4561593}{140000000}$	$\frac{4561593}{280000000}$	$\frac{3014593}{44800000}$	$\frac{59997}{400000}$	$\frac{7341}{224000000}$
Approx.	36.69052473%	3.258280714%	1.629140357%	6.729002232%	14.99925%	0.003277232143%

For wrath cookie (backfire), the rules are:

• Add Clot and Ruin to a pool.
• 10% chance to add Cursed Finger and Elder Frenzy to the pool.
• 0.3% chance to add Free Sugar Lump to the pool.
• 10% chance to replace the pool with Blab.
• Pick a random effect from the pool.

The final result is:

	Clot=Ruin	Cursed Finger=Elder Frenzy	Sugar	Blab
Exact	$\frac{854163}{2000000}$	$\frac{44973}{2000000}$	$\frac{27}{31250}$	$\frac{1}{10}$
Exact	42.70815%	2.24865%	0.0864%	10%

Manipulation

Oddly enough, the seed used to determine the outcome of casting a spell is stored in your save-file as for version v2.0042. More specifically the result of casting any spell is based on your game seed (this is changed only on ascension) and your total number of spells cast. This means that if you save the game, cast a spell, re-load the game, and cast the same spell, the outcome will be the same. However, because Force the Hand of Fate uses Golden Cookie mechanics, there may be extra randomness checks before determining the specific bonus from the cookie and each additional check may change the outcome of the spell. These checks occur after determining whether the spell backfires so they have no effect on whether or not the spell backfires, they do however affect the outcome of Wrath Cookies spawned by backfires in the same way.

Extra randomness checks	Golden cookie sound
Season	On	Off
Valentine's Day or Easter	+2	+1
Any other season	+1	0

This means that depending on your settings the cookie from the spell may have up to 3 different results. Note however that the result is still deterministic so casting with the same number of spells cast total, same season and same golden cookie sound setting will always yield the same result. This gives the player the opportunity to get different results without having to cast additional spells, provided that the player has unlocked Golden cookie alert sound and/or Season switcher Heavenly upgrades.

Since the result is deterministic you can check in advance to see whether a spell will have a favorable outcome, and then use that spell at a later time with predictable results. One application of this is using Force the Hand of Fate to confirm either a Click Frenzy or Elder Frenzy cookie will be generated and use that during a Frenzy, Building Special, and/or Dragonflight buff (note: Click Frenzy cannot be summoned during a Dragonflight).

Also, whether a spell will backfire or not is also deterministic, not tied to each specific spell (note, however, that because Force the Hand of Fate has an additional chance to fail depending on the number of golden cookies on screen, the spell may fail even though other spells would not). This can be manipulated so that the backfire can be "wasted" on a spell that won't have as much of an impact, such as using it on Diminish Ineptitude to make it cause backfires to occur 5 times more likely for 10 minutes, and then not use spells during those 10 minutes, or use it on Haggler's Charm to cause upgrades to be 2% more expensive for an hour when no upgrades are available to purchase, or are too expensive to purchase within the hour.

Spontaneous Edifice mechanics

Building quantity achievements will remain locked when the player reaches a certain threshold using Spontaneous Edifice. Simply save and refresh the game to have them unlocked.

The total number of Wizard towers needed to cast the Spontaneous Edifice spell at each building level (up to 50) is as follows:

Lvl 1: 271 wizard towers Lvl 2: 267 wizard towers Lvl 3: 262 wizard towers Lvl 4: 258 wizard towers Lvl 5: 254 wizard towers Lvl 6: 249 wizard towers Lvl 7: 245 wizard towers Lvl 8: 241 wizard towers Lvl 9: 237 wizard towers Lvl 10: 233 wizard towers Lvl 11: 229 wizard towers Lvl 12: 225 wizard towers Lvl 13: 221 wizard towers Lvl 14: 218 wizard towers Lvl 15: 214 wizard towers Lvl 16: 210 wizard towers Lvl 17: 207 wizard towers Lvl 18: 203 wizard towers Lvl 19: 200 wizard towers Lvl 20: 196 wizard towers Lvl 21: 193 wizard towers Lvl 22: 190 wizard towers Lvl 23: 186 wizard towers Lvl 24: 183 wizard towers Lvl 25: 180 wizard towers

Lvl 26: 177 wizard towers Lvl 27: 174 wizard towers Lvl 28: 171 wizard towers Lvl 29: 168 wizard towers Lvl 30: 165 wizard towers Lvl 31: 162 wizard towers Lvl 32: 159 wizard towers Lvl 33: 156 wizard towers Lvl 34: 154 wizard towers Lvl 35: 151 wizard towers Lvl 36: 148 wizard towers Lvl 37: 146 wizard towers Lvl 38: 143 wizard towers Lvl 39: 140 wizard towers Lvl 40: 138 wizard towers Lvl 41: 135 wizard towers Lvl 42: 133 wizard towers Lvl 43: 131 wizard towers Lvl 44: 128 wizard towers Lvl 45: 126 wizard towers Lvl 46: 124 wizard towers Lvl 47: 121 wizard towers Lvl 48: 119 wizard towers Lvl 49: 117 wizard towers Lvl 50: 115 wizard towers

Magic recharge time

The maximum magic, M, one can have is determined by the following formula:

$M = \left\lfloor 4 + T^{0.6} + 15 \ln\left( 1 + \frac{T + 10(L - 1)}{15} \right) \right\rfloor$

Where T is the amount of wizard towers owned and L is the level of the wizard towers. How the magic, M, increases over time, starting from empty at t=0, can be approximated by the following formula:

$m(t) = \begin{cases}\frac{10^{-6}}{\overline{M}}(1800t+\overline{M})^2&,t\ge \frac{\overline{M}}{1800}\\ 0.0072t&,0\le t< \frac{\overline{M}}{1800}\end{cases}$

$\overline{M}=\max(100,M)$

Where time, t, is in minutes. Notice that when L=1 and T<=530, M=100. In most cases, we can approximate M with the quadratic equation only. To estimate how long it takes in minutes to reach the target amount of magic, use the following formula:

$\frac{5\sqrt{\overline{M}}}{9} \left( \sqrt{m_f} - \sqrt{m_i} \right)$

Where m_i is the current amount of magic available and m_f is the desired amount of magic. This time may vary from the actual time taken due to the game running at different frame rates (e.g. when running in the background versus in the foreground). By these calculations, it takes roughly 56 minutes to fully recharge a completely empty magic meter when M=100.

Optimal max limits

Spells can be repeatedly cast as long as there is enough magic in the magic meter to cast it. For every spell, there is an optimal value for the max limit of magic, which allows the magic to regenerate in the shortest amount of time. These values and times are recorded in the table below. Some spells have inconveniently low limits, like the 7 of Conjure Baked Goods, so good alternatives have been listed as well.

Name	Optimal Max Magic	Cost to Cast	Time Until Recharged
Conjure Baked Goods	7	4	305 seconds
	9	5	333 seconds
	12	6	338 seconds
Force the Hand of Fate	33	29	1248 seconds
	38	32	1238 seconds
	43	35	1243 seconds
Stretch Time	44	16	447 seconds
	49	17	448 seconds
	54	18	449 seconds
Spontaneous Edifice	93	89	2548 seconds
	97	92	2538 seconds
	101	95	2546 seconds
Haggler's Charm	79	17	338 seconds
	89	18	336 seconds
	99	19	335 seconds
Summon Crafty Pixies	54	20	506 seconds
	59	21	506 seconds
	64	22	506 seconds
Resurrect Abomination	89	28	541 seconds
	99	29	528 seconds
	109	30	540 seconds
Diminish Ineptitude	24	9	342 seconds
	29	10	342 seconds
	34	11	345 seconds

With this information, we can see that casting Haggler's Charm with 99 max magic is the fastest way to cast spells, but casting Conjure Baked Goods with low max magic is a good alternative while remaining useful in getting cookies.

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	ID
	Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo	Cast 9 spells.	321
	I'm the wiz	Cast 99 spells.	322
	A wizard is you	Cast 999 spells. "I'm a what?"	323

Trivia

• Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo is a reference to Disney's Cinderella.
• "A wizard is you" is a reference to "A winner is you," a meme from Nintendo Pro Wrestling. This also could be a nod to Fawful's Engrish style of speech from the Mario and Luigi series.
• The description "I'm a what?" is a reference to Harry Potter.
• The Stretch Time spell can be purposely backfired to shorten Clots or other negative effects by 10 minutes max, which can be very, very useful.
• "I'm the wiz" is a reference to a character in the Seinfeld episode "The Junk Mail"
• The flavor text of Haggler's Charm, "What's that spell? Loadsamoney!", is a reference to the song Loadsamoney (Doing up the house) by Harry Enfield, featuring the lines "What's that spell? Loadsamoney, probably".
• Conjure Baked Goods gives a base amount of cookies of 7 when used at a CPS of 0. The only way to get this is through the use of it during a Cursed Finger Wrath Cookie effect, due to always having CPS above 0 when using the spell (it is required to own Wizard Towers in order to use spells), but Cursed Finger sets your CPS to 0 for the duration of the effect.
• Golden Cookies spawned from the Force the Hand of Fate spell are glitched - Cookie Chains don't usually go beyond the initial cookie, using the spell (regardless of outcome or effect) during a cookie chain will cause the next Golden Cookie in the chain to give a different effect (such as a Frenzy, Lucky or Clot if Wrath), and "Lucky" can give less than 15 minutes worth of cookies, even when owning sufficient cookies for 15 minutes worth to be the lower value, giving as low as 1 minute's worth of cookies. These are also not counted in "Golden cookie clicks" on the stats page and can not unlock the Golden Cookie upgrades.
• If you happen to backfire, you can reload the page (or use "save to file" before casting and load from file after backfire) to basically turn back time (so long as you haven't saved). The game probably won't have been saved so it will load the page with your magic refunded and it will seem like you haven't cast a spell at all. This may be considered cheating, so don't use this if you aren't willing to deal with the consequences.
• When Resurrect Abomination backfires while you have no wrinklers it displays "Backfire! But no wrinkler was harmed." Outside of the Grandmapocalypse, it will say "Unable to spawn a wrinkler!" if the cast is successful. By attempting to cast this before starting the Grandmapocalypse (or during an Elder Pact/Pledge), you can use this information to determine if the next spell will backfire or not.
• Upon receiving a backfire for Conjure Baked Goods, if you get "Clot" from a Wrath Cookie during the 15 minutes of CpS reduction, it will completely refill the timer of the backfire, rather than give the normal "Clot" duration of CpS reduction.
• The "Just Wrong" achievement can be unlocked by losing a grandma to Spontaneous Edifice backfiring.

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