Donuts

"The Store" redirects here. For the Money Store, see Money.

About

Donuts () are the premium currency for The Simpsons: Tapped Out. They can be obtained by purchasing them from the store, leveling up, by finishing the weekly track prize of the Rail Yard, finding Maggie three times on the Where's Maggie minigame, completing Daily Challenges at the Big Box, Yahweh, and randomly by; cleaning Debris, doing Friend Actions after maxing out all Friendship Levels, from a Mystery Box or playing the Sideshow You game in Krustyland. Donuts could also be obtained through special ways during certain promotions and events, like Weekly Challenges. After hitting the current Level Cap players get Bonus Levels that XP is applied to until a new Level is released during Content Updates. On each Bonus Level the player gets 3 boxes to pick from, each box contains 1, 2, or 3 Donuts, if you do not get 3 Donuts on the first try you can try again for 50000 cash.

On February 28, 2013, the Golden Scratch-R was added to the game, which gave the Player a chance to win up to 100 Donuts. It worked in a similar way to the regular Scratch-R in that you scratch off three boxes and whatever is revealed indicates the amount won. On June 3, 2014, the Stonecutters 2014 Event was introduced, during this Events there was a Secret Bonus unlocked once the player earned all the Personal prizes where a chance for up to 3 Donuts was earned every 3,000 Emblems, with bonus tries for 150,000 cash, similar to the regular Bonus Levels. The following events (excluding Monorail and THOH 2015 Events) also had this bonus.

Free Donuts

So far, 343 free Donuts, 353 including the easter egg, have been given out for events. The player received:

10 at any time if you tap Homer 10 times (can only be used once)
5 during the Valentine's Day 2013 Event
5 during the St. Patrick's Day 2013 Event
12 during the Whacking Day 2013 Event
16 over the Treehouse of Horror XXIV Event
6 during the Thanksgiving 2013 Event
10 during the Christmas 2013 Event
7 during the Super Bowl Event
5 during the St. Patrick's Day 2014 Event
20 on May 24, 2014, given out to all players as an apology for frame rate issues.
32 over the Stonecutters 2014 Event
7 during the 4th July 2014 Event
15 during the Clash of Clones 2014 Event
20 for logging in during the St. Patrick's Day 2015 Event
20 with the Easter Egg Hunt questline during the Easter 2015 Event
13 for logging in on July 4, 2015, during the 4th July 2015 Event
15 on August 6, 2015, given out to all players for their patience while they fixed the game.
15 between September 13 and September 16, 2015, given to all players to celebrate Rosh Hashanah.
15 for logging in on November 26, 2015, during the Thanksgiving 2015 Event
15 for logging in on August 22, 2016, as a thank-you gift for playing
60 as an apology for errors during the Treehouse of Horror XXX Event.
30 for logging into your Springfield after the 200th update
3 donuts for every extra Santa's Wonderland Ticket if all of the items from Santa's Wonderland box were claimed
10 for tapping the Donut Statue
60 on May 18, 2023, given out to all players as an apology for server issues.
60 on October 24, 2023, as an apology for the server errors during the Treehouse of Horror XXXIV Event.
100 times however many years a player has been playing the game following the announcement of its shutdown, along with an extra 100.

Daily Challenges

On February 4, 2016, the Daily Challenges System was introduced, replacing the Daily Play Combo. It is unlocked upon reaching level 8. One can get free Donuts and various other prizes by completing relatively easy challenges.

The Store

Donuts can be purchased from The Store. The player can buy different Donut packages for different prices:

Name	Cost	Amount of Donuts	Cost per Donut (to nearest ¢/p/¢)
Super Boatload of 5000 Donuts	$199.99 £149.99 € n/a	5000	$0.04 £0.03 € ---
Boatload of 2400 Donuts	$99.99 £99.99 €109.99	2400	$0.04 £0.04 €0.05
Store Full of 900 Donuts	$49.99 £48.99 €54.99	900	$0.06 £0.05 €0.06
Truckload of 300 Donuts	$19.99 £19.99 €21.99	300	$0.07 £0.07 €0.07
Tray of 132 Donuts	$9.99 £9.99 €10.99	132	$0.08 £0.08 €0.08
Stack of 60 Donuts	$4.99 £4.99 €5.49	60	$0.08 £0.08 €0.09
Dozen Donuts	$1.99 £1.99 €2.29	12	$0.17 £0.17 €0.19

Limited Time Sales

Christmas 2012 Event

The "25% More Donuts" offer lasted between December 23, 2012-December 27/28, 2012. The offer was added to the game in an update (released on December 23, 2012).

Name	Bonus	Total
Boatload of 2400 Donuts	600	3000
Store Full of 900 Donuts	225	1125
Truckload of 300 Donuts	75	375
Tray of 132 Donuts	33	165
Stack of 60 Donuts	15	75
Dozen Donuts	3	15

Christmas 2013 Event

Following The Great Donut Caper quest on December 24th, Gil Gunderson appeared in Springfield to offer players a sale, giving up to a 30% bonus on donuts. This sale ended on December 31st.

Name	Bonus	Total
Boatload of 2400 Donuts	720	3120
Store Full of 900 Donuts	200	1100
Truckload of 300 Donuts	45	345
Tray of 132 Donuts	18	150
Stack of 60 Donuts	6	66
Dozen Donuts	1	13

Summer Donut Sale

During August 2014, Gil ran a Summer Donut Sale. This offered two new donut bundles, one of which included a Premium Mystery Box.

Image	Name	Cost	Amount of Donuts
	Dumpster Full of Donuts and a Premium Box	$34.99 £24.49 €30.99	576 Premium Mystery Box
	Tray of Donuts and 10,000 Money	$7.99 £5.49 €6.99	132 10000

Trivia

Many events also have random chances to earn donuts (e.g. THOH) or a chance to win bonus donuts every time they collect more of the prize track once all prizes have been obtained (e.g. Stonecutters, Superheroes, Terwilligers, Tap Ball)
Donuts are the only currency that does not have to be spent to complete quest chains. Note that this is different from using donuts to buy items to unlock quest chains.
A specific category of premium characters can only be unlocked when bought as part of a bundle with the Tray of 132 Donuts (most applicable characters), Stack of 60 Donuts (only with Shelbyville Manhattan), or Truckload of 300 Donuts (only with Jebediah Springfield). They appear in these bundles generally aren't able to be unlocked anywhere else (e.g. mystery boxes, donuts, etc.) besides buying the bundle. Examples of these characters include Libido, Pixel Homer, Alien Bart, etc. For a list of all such characters, see Category:Donut Purchase Characters.