How to Open the Mafia Wars Treasure Chest

As job rewards, we may receive Mafia Wars Treasure Chest for doing the jobs. Inside the chest, you can receive weapons, armors, or vehicles. For example, Knuckle Trimmer, Cane Cutter, Galea, Timber Wolf, Tiger Tank, or Executioner Drone. To open, you need to obtain or purchase treasure chest key. Here is how to open the chest.

Created by Zynga, Mafia Wars happens to be one of the most popular Zynga games out there. Various social networking sites out there, such as Facebook, Yahoo, Tagged, and MySpace, allow you to play this exciting game, and now there is even an app available that allows you to play it on your iPhone. Currently there are more than 26 million players out there playing the game, and it definitely provides plenty of excitement.

Whether you are brand new to the Mafia game or even if you have been playing for some time, you have probably noticed some changes within the past few months. Many different features have been added to make the game more exciting for players. One new feature that you may have noticed is the Mafia Wars treasure chest. Here is a look at how you can get these treasure chests and how to open it once you have it.

Attaining the Treasure Chest

Most people wonder how to get one of these chests in the first place. Well, it is quite simple. You can get the chest by doing jobs anywhere within the game, whether it is in New York, Cuba, Russia, or the recently opened Bangkok. Of course, doing jobs does not mean that you will automatically get one. The chances of getting these chests are random, but most people see them pop up from time to time. If you do not have any treasure chests yet, keep doing jobs and you are bound to get one soon.

Opening the Chest

You may already have some of these treasure chests in the Mafia game. When you are playing, usually a window pops up when you receive a chest, letting you know that you have it. However, if you are playing fast, you may have gone on before your realized what the window said. If you have any chests that are unopened, they will be on your loot page where you can get back to them and open them.

Opening the chests in the Mafia Wars game is rather simple. All you need is the key. The treasure chest key will cost you though. To get the key you have to go to the Marketplace and purchase it with reward points. Usually the key is going to cost you 9 reward points. There are some cases where the key goes on sale though and you can get them for as little as 5 reward points.

If the treasure chest pops up while you are playing, you do not always have to go through the trouble of going to the Marketplace to get the key. Right in the window it will give you the option to unlock the chest by using 9 of your reward points. The other option is to skip opening it. If you skip it, it will be added to your loot page and you can go back and open the chest later when you purchase a key.

Free Keys

There is a chance that you can get free keys within the Mafia game though. While it is rare, sometimes within the new mystery bags that can be given as gifts by friends, these keys do show up and allow you to open up a treasure chest for free.

Treasure Chests and Gifting

You will find that the treasure chests can be gifted. You can easily give them to friends. However, it is important to note that the items that are actually in the chest are not items that can be gifted.

What is inside?

No doubt you are wondering what is inside the Mafia Wars Treasure Chest and if it is really using up your reward points to open the chests. Well, the item you can get all depends. It really is a chance that you take. There are a variety of weapons that you may get, armor, vehicles, and more. Some of the items are fairly low in attack and defense, while others can have up to 47 Attack or 47 Defense. You just never know what you are going to get when you open up a chest.

The treasure chests definitely provide some extra fun within the Mafia game. They can be exciting to open up, and you can get some great items out of the treasure chests. When you get them, open them up right then, save them for later, or enjoy giving them to friends within your mafia.