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Cookie Clicker Beginner Guide

Cookie Clicker looks simple, and for the first few minutes it is. After that, a handful of ideas decide how fast your bakery grows. We've played it for years and still catch ourselves making the same slow mistakes, so here is the short version of what actually matters.

Cookies per second is the number to watch

Your income is measured in cookies per second, or CPS, and you'll see it just under your cookie total. Every cursor, grandma, farm and factory adds to it, and upgrades multiply what those buildings already make. Buildings get pricier each time you buy one, so the cheapest item in the store isn't always the best deal. Hover over a building and the game shows how much CPS it will add, which makes comparing options easy. A good rule of thumb: the best purchase is the one that adds the most CPS for the fewest cookies, and an affordable upgrade almost always beats a new building.

Your first ten minutes

1. Click by hand until you can afford a cursor. It's only about fifteen cookies, so this takes seconds.
2. Buy a few cursors, then your first grandma. Grandmas are the first building that really feels like progress.
3. Check the upgrade shelf above the store every time you buy something. Cheap upgrades pay for themselves very quickly.
4. Add a farm and a mine once grandmas are rolling, and keep clicking golden cookies as they appear.
5. Leave the tab open. Your bakery keeps working while you read, study or make dinner.

What to do at each stage

• Early on: click the cookie, buy a few cursors and grandmas, and grab every cheap upgrade the moment it shows up.
• Mid game: add farms, mines and factories. Keep a bit of everything so upgrades for each building stay useful.
• Late game: work toward your first ascension, then use what you earn to make every later run faster.

Buildings at a glance

You don't need to memorize the store, but knowing the first few buildings helps you plan. Each one works like this:

Past these there are many more, from shipments and portals to stranger things further along. You'll meet them naturally as your totals grow.

Golden cookies, explained

Every so often a golden cookie drifts onto the screen and fades out after roughly thirteen seconds. Click it in time and something good usually happens. A Frenzy multiplies your production for a little over a minute, a Lucky cookie hands you a pile of free cookies, and a Click Frenzy makes each manual click worth far more for a few seconds. Occasionally a different kind of cookie appears with a less friendly effect, so it pays to read the message that pops up. Keeping a modest cookie reserve in your bank tends to make Lucky rewards bigger, which is a small reason not to spend down to zero every time.

What ascending actually does

Ascending resets your bakery in exchange for heavenly chips. Your first chips arrive once you've baked around a trillion cookies in total, and each chip adds a permanent production bonus. Chips also buy heavenly upgrades that make later runs smoother. It can feel odd to throw away a bakery you spent hours on, but the next run climbs much faster than the last, and that loop is what keeps long-time players around. Don't rush it. Ascend when your progress has clearly slowed down.

Seasons and special events

Around holidays such as Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter, you can switch on a seasonal event that adds themed cookies, upgrades and collectibles. They're optional, but they're a fun way to chase achievements you won't get otherwise.

Mistakes that slow people down

• Spending everything on one building type, which leaves many upgrades locked.
• Ignoring the upgrade shelf for a long time while cookies pile up.
• Missing golden cookies because the tab was hidden or the sound was off.
• Never exporting a save, then losing progress after clearing browser data.

Saving your progress

The game saves automatically in your browser, so you can close the tab and come back later. If you clear your browser data or switch to another browser or device, you'll start from scratch. Every so often, open the game's options menu and export your save as a backup. Pasting that text file into a note takes ten seconds and can save you hours.

Playing on a phone, tablet or computer

Cookie Clicker works in any modern browser, so there's nothing to install. On a small screen, tap Fullscreen or open the game in a new tab for more room. If you're on a school or work device, please check that games are allowed on that network first.

What “unblocked” means here

It simply means you can load the game from an ordinary web page with no download or sign-up, which helps it work on more connections and devices. It doesn't change the game, and it isn't a way around anyone's rules.