How to Get Free MS Coins (Every Way, and the Daily Caps)
By Miguel Arechaga
MS Coins are the currency of Hotel MS: they pay for the furniture in your room, your avatar's clothes, pets and their food. You can buy them, but you don't have to. This is the full list of ways to earn them for free, what each one pays and where it stops.
Winning sudokus is by far the biggest source
Every game you complete while signed in gives you 20 MS Coins. Any board counts: the classic one, the daily sudoku and all 26 variants, at any difficulty. A two-minute 4×4 pays exactly what a twenty-minute killer pays.
The limit is ten games a day, so 200 MS. From the eleventh on you still collect XP, streak and stars on the Master's Path, but that day's coins are already banked.
Two conditions. First, you have to be signed in — a guest game has no account to pay into. Second, the game has to be believable: a 9×9 solved in a handful of seconds pays nothing, the same way it doesn't enter the ranking.
And you don't need to have set foot in the hotel. If you win sudokus with your account, the coins are kept for you: the day you walk in you'll find them waiting, with the 200 MS welcome gift on top.
The twelve daily quests: 185 MS
The hotel sets twelve quests that reset every day and pay themselves out the moment you finish them — there's no claim button. Their names are the same in every language, because that's how they appear in the game:
- Paseante (stroller) — visit 3 other people's rooms — 20 MS
- Sociable — sit down in someone else's room — 20 MS
- Charlatán (chatterbox) — send 5 chat messages — 15 MS
- Decorador (decorator) — place or move 3 pieces of furniture — 15 MS
- Cuidador (keeper) — feed your pet — 15 MS
- Hortelano (gardener) — pick 3 fruits in El Huerto, the orchard — 15 MS
- Minero (miner) — dig out 3 minerals in La Mina — 15 MS
- Leñador (woodcutter) — gather 3 resources in El Bosque, the woods — 15 MS
- Granjero (farmer) — collect 3 products in La Granja, the farm — 15 MS
- Naturalista (naturalist) — catch 3 bugs in La Reserva, the nature reserve — 15 MS
- Arqueólogo (archaeologist) — dig up 3 finds in El Yacimiento, the dig site — 15 MS
- Fan — like a room — 10 MS
All twelve together are 185 MS a day, and none of them asks much: the six gathering quests are done with three resources, which take under a minute. The only one that needs anything in advance is Cuidador, since you need a pet to feed.
Wandering and talking pay too
Two small earnings for doing exactly what you do in a hotel:
- Your first visit of the day to someone else's room: 5 MS, for up to five different rooms — 25 MS a day. Going back to the same room the same day doesn't pay again, and your own room doesn't count.
- Your first chat message of the day: 10 MS. Only the first one; the rest of the conversation is free in both directions.
Since the first three visits also count towards the Paseante quest, a lap through the room listing is the most profitable two minutes in the hotel.
Fishing and gathering: little in coins, plenty in everything else
On the beach and in the six gathering rooms — El Huerto, La Mina, El Bosque, La Granja, La Reserva and El Yacimiento — MS Coins do turn up, but in a trickle and with a cap: none of the seven places goes past 30 MS a day.
That's deliberate. What those rooms really pay is their own currencies — scales from fishing; harvest, shards and sap from gathering — which never convert into MS and only buy paintings and the furniture in the Workshop. You fish to collect, not to get rich.
Even so, dropping by all seven every day is up to 210 MS more. If you're curious, fishing has an article of its own.
The one-off payouts
- Welcome: 200 MS, the first time your account shows up at the hotel.
- Five achievements worth 50 MS each: placing your first piece of furniture, reaching ten placed, placing your first epic piece, sitting down for the first time and putting on your first item of clothing. That's 250 MS sitting there from day one, which most people collect without trying.
- Inviting a friend: 50 MS for every person who signs up and redeems your username as their code within their first week. Up to three a day.
What a day adds up to
Counting only what doesn't depend on luck:
- Ten sudokus won — 200 MS
- The twelve daily quests — 185 MS
- Five rooms visited — 25 MS
- The first message of the day — 10 MS
420 MS Coins a day, with no requirement beyond turning up. With whatever fishing and gathering drop, the daily ceiling is 630. Every cap resets at midnight, mainland Spanish time.
And what that buys
Common furniture costs between 10 and 50 MS, rare pieces from 100 to 700, and epics from 500 up — the priciest thing in the shop is 2,500.
In other words: an ordinary day buys several common pieces, or one rare one. A week of playing a little each day buys the most expensive item there is. Nothing in the hotel is out of reach for someone who never pays.
Why there are caps at all
Because without them the hotel would be won by whoever could leave it open all night, and that isn't playing anything. Caps level the field: someone who plays half an hour and someone who plays six end the day in a similar place.
They're also the reason all of this can be published without small print. Buying coins shortens the road; it doesn't open any door that was closed.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to pay to get MS Coins?
No. Everything sold in the hotel can be paid for with coins earned by playing, including the most expensive furniture. Buying coins is optional and only shortens the wait.
I've won several sudokus in a row and I've stopped getting coins. Why?
Because sudoku pays for up to ten games a day, 200 MS Coins. After that the game still counts towards your streak, your XP and your stars, but it no longer pays coins. The counter goes back to zero at midnight.
Do MS Coins expire?
No. Once earned they stay in your account until you spend them. What resets every day is the caps, not your balance.
Coins are earned by playing, and the first sudoku of the day already counts.
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