Wildlife has been one of my favorite events, I usually spend some diamonds, usually extra tickets. So I have played a lot of minigames. I have an observation, purely qualitative, just based on experience. I have never seen so many paws drop with 5 moves or less left to use. My suspicious nature says, since the change from 10 to 5 extra moves for 65 coin, it is bait to spend coin. On the other side of it, I have seen more paws than in previous years so maybe they are just coming and those ones at the end are just part of more paws being available. But I really don't like that change so I could be more sensitive to it. But I will say, with 10 moves for 65 coin, I would go after them more, so I am not spending diamonds for coin like I used to do. The 5 moves does not get me much so it has lost value. In fact, I think I have only done it during Rivals when it was necessary to complete the questline.
Other feedback, 16 days left, wow, this event is too long. I thought 21 days was just about enough. At that point, I was good (satisfied my "candy crush" need...lol) and was ready for an event break. When I did it in beta, that last week got to be too much, for me at least...and I like this event.
I do like Rivals, I end up with extra boosters and the golden tickets. I think adding the pay line buildings, alligator swap and tapir trails, both to L2 if Rivals completed was a plus. It did come at a cost versus the beta questline, more coin and chests, at the end (ie tickets). The argument against Rivals, you have to change your event strategy, less DS focus and save all event resources for Rivals. I don't know about others but I am not getting much from daily specials lately, not like it used to be. So this makes Rivals ok for me, I respect others may not like it at all, it is also time consuming...you play a lot of tickets. I would guess at least 15 tickets. I think it is 20 tickets, 5 min per game, 100 min, that is just the 2 days, 3 times, doesn't include burning tickets daily, every day, for the other 22 days...like I said, the event is looooonnnnngggg.