Business Day season

Business Day Season is a seasonal event in Cookie Clicker, added in version 1.0413. This season serves as an April Fools’ Day prank, using the business theme as a practical joke. Since version 1.0466, Business Day starts automatically on the 31st of March (29th on leap years), and lasts until the 2nd of April.

Business Day can be activated at will by purchasing the season switch upgrade “Fool’s biscuit”, which enables the season for 24 hours. The upgrade will unlock after purchasing the Season switcher for 1,111 Heavenly chips, which lets the player trigger seasonal events at will. The upgrade is repeatable after expiring, though it doubles in cost each time a season switch upgrade is activated. Additionally, activating the season will end the current season, if one is in play.

When the season is active, the cosmetic effects of the season activate immediately. This includes a new dollar bill-themed background, dollar bill particle effects replacing the cookies falling in the background and appearing when clicking the Big Cookie, new news ticker messages (which appear in place of all other ticker headlines), and Golden Cookies taking the appearance of contracts.

By default, Business Day only features one major gameplay change, which is an exclusive Golden Cookie effect called “Everything must go”, which reduces the cost of all buildings by 5% for 5 seconds of base time. If the heavenly upgrade Startrade has been purchased, Golden Cookies appear 5% more often during Business Day. If the Pantheon god Selebrak is slotted, Golden Cookies appear slightly more often during Business Day than in other seasons.

Building changes

During the Business Day season, all of the building names and icons change in the shop. However, their in-game appearance does not change, and the buildings’ tooltip information will use their original names and sprites.

Name

Business day name

Icon

Description

Cursor

Rolling pin

Essential in flattening dough. The first step in cookie-making.

Grandma

Oven

A crucial element of baking cookies.

Farm

Kitchen

The more kitchens, the more cookies your employees can produce.

Mine

Secret recipe

These give you the edge you need to outsell those pesky competitors.

Factory

Factory

Mass production is the future of baking. Seize the day, and synergize!

Bank

Investor

Business folks with a nose for profit, ready to finance your venture as long as there’s money to be made.

Temple

Like

Your social media page is going viral! Amassing likes is the key to a lasting online presence and juicy advertising deals.

Wizard tower

Meme

Cookie memes are all the rage! With just the right amount of social media astroturfing, your brand image will be all over the cyberspace.

Shipment

Supermarket

A giant cookie emporium – your very own retail chain.

Alchemy Lab

Stock share

You’re officially on the stock market, and everyone wants a piece!

Portal

TV show

Your cookies have their own sitcom! Hilarious baking hijinks set to the cheesiest laughtrack.

Time Machine

Theme park

Cookie theme parks, full of mascots and roller-coasters. Build one, build a hundred!

Antimatter Condenser

Cookiecoin

A virtual currency, already replacing regular money in some small countries.

Prism

Corporate country

You’ve made it to the top, and you can now buy entire nations to further your corporate greed. Godspeed.

Chancemaker

Privatized planet

Actually, you know what’s cool? A whole planet dedicated to producing, advertising, selling, and consuming your cookies.

Fractal Engine

Senate seat

Only through political dominion can you truly alter this world to create a brighter, more cookie-friendly future.

Javascript Console

Doctrine

Taking many forms -religion, culture, philosophy- a doctrine may, when handled properly, cause a lasting impact on civilizations, reshaping minds and people and ensuring all future generations share a singular goal – the production, and acquisition, of more cookies.

Idleverse

Lateral expansions

Sometimes the best way to keep going up is sideways. Diversify your ventures through non-cookie investments.

Cortex Baker

Think tank

There’s only so many ways you can bring in more profit. Or is there? Hire the most brilliant experts in the known universe and let them scrape their brains for you!

The golden and wrath cookies appearances as contracts during the Business Day season:

Stats: Special

Under Special, one would see:

Seasonal event : Business Day (Time remaining, if activated with season switcher)

Money made from selling cookies : (Number of cookies baked during this Ascension * 0.08) cookie dollars

TV show seasons produced : ((Number of hours since session start * (Highest number of Portals owned * 0.13)) + 1)

Gallery

The appearance of the shop during Business Day season.

The original appearance of Banks, Temples and Wizard Towers in beta 1.0501.

Meme icon prior to version 2.04. (Current icon on browser version 2.031.)

Trivia

• Before v2 of Cookie Clicker, the “$” came after the number of cookies, instead of before. It was later changed again to “cookie dollars”.
  • This was most likely due to how the developer, Orteil, is French, and currency symbols ($,€,₹,…) are placed after the amount in French.
• The factory is the only building that isn’t given a different name while the season is in effect.
• The “Money made from selling cookies” statistic implies that every cookie is sold for 8 cents of profit.
• If Business Day were to be activated in the 1.0501 beta, the Bank, Temple, and Wizard Tower buildings are all renamed to “Investment”. They all use the Rolling pin icon that the Cursor uses, and the description will say “You’re not sure what this does, you just know it means profit.”
• The “TV show seasons produced” stat only appears if the player owns at least one Portal.
• During Business Day, the title of the web page is changed to Cookie Baker in place of Cookie Clicker.
• Business Day is the only season to feature an exclusive Golden Cookie effect.
• Business Day is the only season to not include any exclusive upgrades.

References

• Cookiecoin is a reference to cryptocurrency.
• The Meme store icon is based on the popular internet meme Nyan Cat, but with its poptart body replaced by a cookie.
  • The fact that this replaces the Wizard Tower might be a reference to the phrase “Meme Magic”.
    • It may also be a reference to the “Wizard” meme, where a virgin man, upon reaching the age of 30, will obtain god-like wizard powers as a reward for his chastity.
  • Prior to 2.04, the meme icon was based on Pepe the Frog. It was changed due to the appropriation of Pepe the Frog by the alt-right.