Christmas cracker

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Christmas cracker

Also known as?	Xmas Cracker, Cracker, C Cracker
Members only?	No
Quest item?	No
Tradeable?	Yes
Equipable?	No
Stacks?	No
High Alchemy	1 coins
Low Alchemy	1 coins
Destroy	Drop
Store price	Not sold
Exchange price	690,400,000 coins update
GE Database	Look up price
Examine	I need to pull this.
Weight	0 kg
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"Cracker" redirects here. For other uses, see Barbarian Assault.

A Christmas cracker is a holiday item that was dropped during the 2001 Christmas event on 25 December 2001, the first RuneScape Christmas event. They are currently the single most expensive item in the game, and also nearly twice the price of the second most expensive item, the Divine spirit shield.

Inside of them is a party hat and one other random item, such as some coins or runes. To open it, it must be used with another player. Once opened, one player will get a random coloured party hat, and the other player would get a miscellaneous item of little value. Due to real world trading, when a player uses the cracker on another player, the player who pulled it gets the reward. Mod Ash has confirmed this.

When these crackers were dropped, the original colour was red, and has since changed to white. Few Christmas crackers remain due to the fact that the vast majority of players opened them for the rune items that could be obtained from doing so. Note that at the time of the drop, party hats were virtually worthless, while certain rune items such as the rune kiteshield were worth millions.

A player interchanging between various partyhats, obtainable through pulling a Christmas cracker.

Over time, many have been lost as players with older accounts have quit, been permanently banned, or opened their Christmas crackers for fun. Their importance to the RuneScape economy (which was so crucial for years starting a few years after their release) has long diminished. Nearly all transactions involving large amounts of money or items of high value involve other holiday items such as party hats and Halloween masks.

Current estimates suggest that only a small number remain, particularly due to the banning and retirement of high level players after the removal of unbalanced trade and the wilderness changes.^{[source needed]} Another point of the rarity of this item is that when it is examined it says "I need to pull this" gave many players the urgency to pull this item when first released.

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