Garden Coins: Your Biggest Payout
What this page helps you decide: whether to treat Garden Coins as your main grinding target or as a by-product
Garden Coins appear at 39% in both documented reward pools, making them by far the most frequent thing a crate can contain - and by volume the largest thing you earn. That is easy to overlook precisely because they arrive constantly. This page works out what the rate adds up to and what it means for how you grind.
The most common reward by a wide margin
At 39%, Garden Coins appear in roughly two crates out of five, against 28% for Coins in Gauntlet and 36% in Regular. Nothing else on either table comes close - Faction XP is 9%, Voodoo Tokens 10% or 7%, and every named item is under 3%. Crucially the 39% is identical in both pools, which means the mode you choose does not change how often you see them, only how many arrive at a time: 433 to 650 in Gauntlet against 240 to 360 in Regular. That is the cleanest reward comparison in the game, because one variable is held fixed for you.
What the rate accumulates to
Multiplying frequency by size, a Gauntlet crate is worth about 211 Garden Coins on average and a Regular crate about 117. Across a hundred crates that is roughly 21,000 against 11,700 - a gap of nearly ten thousand for the same number of crates opened. Put next to the other lines on the same table, where the entire expected Voodoo Token yield across a hundred crates is twenty tokens, the scale difference is stark. Garden Coins are not a side reward that happens to be frequent; they are the main output of both modes measured in raw quantity.
Where they go, and why that changes the calculation
Garden Coins are the currency for the Featured Unit in the Endless area, which gives them a specific sink rather than being general-purpose. That matters because a currency with one destination has a natural stopping point: once you have bought what you wanted, additional Garden Coins are worth much less than the same time spent on Voodoo Tokens, which are consumed continuously by curse rolling. So the correct way to treat Garden Coins shifts over time - a target while you are saving for a Featured Unit, a by-product afterwards.
Do not let the biggest number pick your mode
Because Garden Coins dominate every table by volume, they also dominate any comparison that sums rewards naively, and that is misleading. A hundred crates yielding twenty Voodoo Tokens may be worth far more to you than the same crates yielding twenty thousand Garden Coins, if tokens are what gates your progress and you already own the Featured Unit. The useful habit is to compare each currency against its own bottleneck rather than against the others - what the number buys, not how large the number is.
Step-by-Step
- Expect Garden Coins in roughly two of every five crates, in both modes.
- Gauntlet pays 433 to 650 per drop against 240 to 360 in Regular.
- Budget about 211 per Gauntlet crate and 117 per Regular crate on average.
- Treat them as a target while saving for the Featured Unit, a by-product after.
- Compare each currency against its own bottleneck, not against the largest number.
Data Tables
| Reward | Chance | Gauntlet amount | Per 100 crates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Coins | 39% | 433 to 650 | about 21,000 |
| Coins | 28% | 142 to 214 | about 5,000 |
| Faction XP | 9% | 385 to 577 | about 4,300 |
| XP | 3% | 180 to 271 | about 680 |
| Voodoo Tokens | 10% | 1 to 3 | about 20 |
Figures are player-reported in community video 0YtNQwrUIS4 by Rubenakayoshii, not developer-published. Ratios, shares and expected values are our own arithmetic on those figures. Checked 2026-08-27.
Tips & Notes
- Compare a currency against its own bottleneck, not against the biggest number on the table.
FAQ
What are Garden Coins used for in The House TD 2?
They buy the Featured Unit in the Endless area, which is their main destination.
How often do Garden Coins drop?
39% of crates in both Gauntlet and Regular Endless - the same chance in each, with only the amount differing.
Should I grind specifically for Garden Coins?
While you are saving for a Featured Unit, yes. Afterwards they become a by-product, and Voodoo Tokens are usually the better target.
Sources
- Community Gauntlet vs Endless by Rubenakayoshii