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The Wizard Tower is a building added in the legacy update. It is the eighth building in the game, costs 330 million cookies and produces 44,000 CpS by summoning them.
Wizard towers can be upgraded with sugar lumps, unlocking the Grimoire minigame.
Achievements
| Icon | Name | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
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Bewitched | Have 1 wizard tower. | 181 |
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The sorcerer's apprentice | Have 50 wizard towers. | 182 |
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Charms and enchantments | Have 100 wizard towers. | 183 |
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Curses and maledictions | Have 150 wizard towers. | 184 |
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Magic kingdom | Have 200 wizard towers. | 185 |
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The wizarding world | Have 250 wizard towers. | 215 |
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And now for my next trick, I'll need a volunteer from the audience | Have 300 wizard towers. | 255 |
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It's a kind of magic | Have 350 wizard towers. | 286 |
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The Prestige | Have 400 wizard towers. "(Unrelated to the Cookie Clicker feature of the same name.)" |
346 |
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Spell it out for you | Have 450 wizard towers. | 359 |
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The meteor men beg to differ | Have 500 wizard towers. | 405 |
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Higitus figitus migitus mum | Have 550 wizard towers. | 481 |
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Magic thinking | Have 600 wizard towers. | 499 |
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Shosple Colupis | Have 650 wizard towers. | 562 |
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Hocus Pocus | Make 10 quintillion cookies just from wizard towers. | 188 |
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Too many rabbits, not enough hats | Make 100 septillion cookies just from wizard towers. | 196 |
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Manafest destiny | Make 1 decillion cookies just from wizard towers. | 300 |
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Motormouth | Reach level 10 wizard towers. | 314 |
Upgrades
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Pointier hats | Own 1 wizard tower |  3.3 billion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Tests have shown increased thaumic receptivity relative to the geometric proportions of wizardly conic implements." |
244 |
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Beardlier beards | Own 5 wizard towers | 16.5 billion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Haven't you heard? The beard is the word." |
245 |
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Ancient grimoires | Own 25 wizard towers | 165 billion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Contain interesting spells such as "Turn Water To Drool", "Grow Eyebrows On Furniture" and "Summon Politician"." |
246 |
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Kitchen curses | Own 50 wizard towers | 16.5 trillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Exotic magic involved in all things pastry-related. Hexcellent!" |
247 |
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School of sorcery | Own 100 wizard towers | 1.65 quadrillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "This cookie-funded academy of witchcraft is home to the 4 prestigious houses of magic : the Jocks, the Nerds, the Preps, and the Deathmunchers." |
248 |
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Dark formulas | Own 150 wizard towers | 165 quadrillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Eldritch forces are at work behind these spells - you get the feeling you really shouldn't be messing with those. But I mean, free cookies, right?" |
249 |
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Cookiemancy | Own 200 wizard towers | 165 quintillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "There it is; the perfected school of baking magic. From summoning chips to hexing nuts, there is not a single part of cookie-making that hasn't been improved tenfold by magic tricks." |
300 |
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Rabbit trick | Own 250 wizard towers | 165 sextillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Using nothing more than a fancy top hat, your wizards have found a way to simultaneously curb rabbit population and produce heaps of extra cookies for basically free! Resulting cookies may or may not be fit for vegans." |
313 |
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Deluxe tailored wands | Own 300 wizard towers | 165 septillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "In this age of science, most skillful wand-makers are now long gone; but thankfully - not all those wanders are lost." |
434 |
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Immobile spellcasting | Own 350 wizard towers | 165 octillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Wizards who master this skill can now cast spells without having to hop and skip and gesticulate embarrassingly, which is much sneakier and honestly quite a relief." |
486 |
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Electricity | Own 400 wizard towers | 1.65 decillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "Ancient magicks and forbidden hexes shroud this arcane knowledge, whose unfathomable power can mysteriously turn darkness into light and shock an elephant to death." |
512 |
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Spelling bees | Own 450 wizard towers | 16.5 undecillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "You've unleashed a swarm of magically-enhanced bees upon mankind! Their stinging spells may be the bane of all living things but you're certain you can put their delicious, purple, fizzy honey to good use!" |
668 |
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Wizard basements | Own 500 wizard towers | 165 duodecillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "You've received construction permits allowing you to build basements underneath each wizard tower. This provides a handy storage space for precious reagents, fizzled-out soul gems, and weird old magazines." |
706 |
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Magical realism | Own 550 Wizard Towers | 1.65 quattuordecillion
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Wizard towers are twice as efficient. "More a social than thaumaturgical progress, magical realism refers to the normalization of modern technology among magic-users. It's totally fine for a wizard to drive a car! There's no stigma in waiting in line for coffee! Sure, take a phone call, send an email, whatever!" |
749 |
Other Upgrades
| Icon | Name | Unlock condition | Base price | Description | ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Witch grandmas | 15 wizard towers and 1 grandma owned | 16.5 billion
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Grandmas are twice as efficient. Wizard towers gain +1% CpS per 6 grandmas. "A nice witch to cast a zip, and a zoop, and poof! Cookies." |
252 |
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Seismic magic | 15 Mines, 15 Wizard towers and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 66.024 trillion
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Mines gain +5% CpS per wizard tower. Wizard towers gain +0.1% CpS per mine. "Surprise earthquakes are an old favorite of wizardly frat houses." |
371 |
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Arcane knowledge | 15 Wizard towers, 15 Alchemy labs and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 15.66 quadrillion
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Wizard towers gain +5% CpS per alchemy lab. Alchemy labs gain +0.1% CpS per wizard tower. "Some things were never meant to be known - only mildly speculated." |
379 |
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Magical botany | 75 Wizard towers, 75 Farms and "Synergies Vol. II" purchased | 66.002 quintillion
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Farms gain +5% CpS per wizard tower. Wizard towers gain +0.1% CpS per farm. "Already known in some reactionary newspapers as "the wizard's GMOs"." |
380 |
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Light magic | 15 Wizard towers, 15 Prisms and "Synergies Vol. I" purchased | 420 quintillion
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Wizard towers gain +5% CpS per prism. Prisms gain +0.1% CpS per wizard tower. "Actually not to be taken lightly! No, I'm serious. 178 people died last year. You don't mess around with magic." |
391 |
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Fortune #008 | Random fortune from news ticker | 25.667 undecillion
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Wizard towers are 7% more efficient and 7% cheaper. "Magic is about two things - showmanship, and rabbits." |
628 |
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Unshackled wizard towers (heavenly upgrade) |
"Unshackled temples" purchased |  31.457 trillion
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Tiered upgrades for Wizard towers provide an extra +130% production. Only works with unshackled upgrade tiers. "There's a spell for everything." |
775 |
Gallery
Background
Witch Grandma
Trivia
References
- The first achievement "Bewitched" is a reference to a popular American sitcom of the same name, about a witch who marries a mortal, and vows to lead a non-magical life of an ordinary housewife.
- The achievement "The sorcerer's apprentice" is a reference to the 1940s film "Fantasia."
- The achievement "Beardlier Beards" contains a reference to The Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" in its description.
- The upgrade "School of sourcery" is a reference to the Harry Potter series, written by J.K.Rowling; where the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into 4 houses of magic. The names for the houses in the upgrade description seem tongue-in-cheek for those in the series.
- The achievement "Hocus Pocus" is a reference to the commonly chanted phrase for magic tricks.
- The upgrade "Cookiemancy" is the word "cookie" in front of the English suffix "mancy", which derives from Greek and means divination.
- The flavor text of upgrade "Deluxe tailored wands" contains a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy series The Lord of the Rings, in which one of the main characters is introduced with a poem containing the line "not all who wander are lost."
- The flavor text for upgrade "Electricity" is a reference to Thomas Edison's campaign against alternating current (A.C) electricity, in which he famously used it to shock an elephant to death to make A.C appear dangerous.
- The upgrade "Spelling Bees" is a reference to the Spelling Bee Competiton.
