Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 13)/@comment-29799506-20180118051101

I don’t think it’s no longer true you can win a Gauntlet without spending gold. In one previous Gauntlet, I made a mistake of quit run #1 too soon. After several run I couldn’t even get past boss 1, and I only got out of the hole by upgrading the car.

12 and 13th Gauntlet have been restructured to encourage finishing in one or two runs. In Gauntlet 9, you earn 38% of the 40,000pts required if you beat boss 1 and 2, so you can finish the whole thing in 5 or 6 runs if you can manage to pass boss 4 or 5 in your first run.

In this Gauntlet, you only earn 17% of the needed points if you beat boss 1 and 2. It means you need to get pass boss 8 or 9 on the first run to have a realistic chance of ever finishing. For most players, that means you have to purchase 2 or 3 gold upgrades. If you don’t do that, you will get stuck with impossible boss 1 or 2 very soon, and you might even have to spend more gold.

So, you have been warned. You are welcome to prove me wrong.