Marathon Party Without Waste: Boards, Boxes and a Three-Day Plan

• Teams of four race together, and every member's distance adds to the team total.
• Boards are earned on the pinball board: one tile is labelled as granting candy and skateboards, and the version we saw showed a 22% chance.
• A normal spin usually moves you between 1 and 20 metres. Holding enough boards unlocks bigger multipliers, and free spins appear on the wheel.
• Track milestones hand out resources, and final team placement adds a reward on top.
• The event usually lasts three days.

Marathon is one of the most trial-friendly events: Tatadex counts 26 evolution trials that can progress here. Most come as a choice between Marathon (listed in some trials as Snowboard Sprint) and Fishing or Cozy Farm. The pattern is steady: Tier 2 trials ask for 2,000 boards, Tier 3 trials ask for 6,000. Firecoil → Charflutter, for example, accepts 2,000 boards or 4,000 fertiliser, and Voltmare → Boltallion takes 6,000 boards or 6,000 rods.

The trap is timing. Boards spent before the trial is active do not count, so open the Tatari, start its Evolve Trial, and only then spin. Also check that the trial shows the skateboard icon; older text sometimes refers to a sneaker item.

Distance itself is not the point. The Surprise Rewards boxes placed along the track are, because each one lets you take one of three offers drawn from a pool of , pinballs, capsules, food, skateboards and candy. Pick in this order:

1. , every time. Nothing else on the list is as scarce, and feed directly into evolutions.
2. Pinballs. They power every other event, including the next one.
3. Capsule or food, by need. A capsule is worth more if you are growing collection stars to unlock higher-tier Tatari. Food here is often a basic cookie, and the boss leaderboard already drips food to you regularly.
4. Candy, almost never. Even a seven-figure candy offer loses to a capsule, because candy is the easiest resource in the game to farm.

Skateboards only make sense if you are a few spins away from a trial target.

The wheel scales from ×1, where segments are worth a handful of metres, up to ×500, where they reach the thousands. At ×500 the wheel holds a 10,000 m segment, small ones, and a "Free" segment that grants distance without using a board. Big multipliers raise the stakes in both directions.

Since the outcome is random, the choice is mostly about your stock. A large pile of boards can absorb a few bad spins at a high setting; a small pile cannot. If you are only spinning to finish a trial, multiplier matters even less, since trials count boards spent, not metres run.

Marathon has no rewards tab. Opening the event page instantly pays you whatever your teammates have unlocked so far. That is good news if you want to carry pinballs forward, because staying off the page is the same as holding rewards.

Tell your team. A teammate who sees no movement from you for two days may assume you have dropped out, and team placement depends on everyone's metres eventually arriving. For the wider picture of how this fits the rotation, see banking pinballs across the event loop.

If one teammate runs Charflutter (the fire moth) and another runs Rockzilla, Charflutter perches on Rockzilla's back during the race. It is a clear tribute to the famous giant-lizard-and-moth pairing from classic monster films. It gives nothing extra, but it is a fun thing to set up with your team.

• CharflutterOne player picks Charflutter T3 (the “fire moth”)
• RockzillaThe other picks Rockzilla T3 (the “Godzilla”)

• Trial active before the first spin?
• taken from every box that offered one?
• All boards spent on the final day?
• Team aware of your plan?

Other rotations are summarised on the event field card.

Marathon is almost all luck, so Fox thinks the thing you really control is your pinballs: don't open the Marathon page on the first two days, and save the run for the last day. That way you still carry pinballs into the next event.

If a Tatari needs a Marathon task to evolve, start the task before you run, or you'll have to wait for the next cycle. The Charflutter and Rockzilla Easter egg gives nothing extra, but it's a fun thing to try with your team.