How to get 10 wins in The Bazaar: a day-by-day plan

To reach 10 wins, win the cheap early PvP fights with whatever the shops sell. Then switch to one of your hero’s Season 20 carry items when it appears, usually from Day 5 to Day 8, and have it upgraded and protected before the Day 8 to 10 fights. You start with 20 Prestige, and each PvP loss costs Prestige equal to the day. Losing Days 1 to 3 costs 6 in total; losing Days 8 and 9 costs 17.

Waiting for one archetype’s missing piece loses runs. In an 11 November Steam thread, a player kept getting Ammo items as Vanessa but never a Reload item, and lost those runs. Replies describe switching to whatever the merchants offered, such as Friends or Premium Piggles, and winning with it. Steam replies from September to November 2026 name the three ways current boards win: fast Charge loops, fast defensive or damage scaling, or a one-shot. Your final board needs at least one.

Day by day

Days	Loss costs	What to do
1 to 2	1 to 2 Prestige	Take one Bronze opener for your hero (table below). Buy income items such as Money Tree and Cash Register: they pay out from the Stash. A Partner Portal can appear on Days 1 to 5. Dooley chooses his Core on Day 2.
3 to 5	3 to 5	Find a damage scaler for the opener. Fight the monster you can beat: right-click it to read its loadout first. A lost monster fight costs no Prestige and still pays XP for the damage dealt, but you miss its item drop. The Travel Agent (Days 2 to 5) sells tickets; Surprise Me gives a random ticket for 6 Gold.
6 to 7	6 to 7	Gold-tier items start to appear in shops, including most carry items. Buy the carry and the one piece that makes it work. Sell opener items once the new board wins without them. Crash Site needs its ticket on Day 6.
8 to 10	8 to 10	Spend on upgrades, startup speed and defence rather than new ideas. Temple is on Day 9. The Tiny World expedition takes the whole of Day 10 and ends with the Sizeinator. If you lose a fight inside it, you return to the normal day at the same hour.

Prestige arithmetic and rewards are in how a run works. Ticket monsters and expedition steps are in expeditions.

Openers and when to switch

Openers and carry items are from Mobalytics’ Season 20 guides (30 October to 9 November 2026). The full core pieces for each carry are in the builds guide.

Hero	Days 1 to 3 opener	Income to buy	Switch to
Vanessa	Sharkclaws with fast Small Weapons; or Catfish, Pop Snappers with Lighter, or Mantis Shrimp	Ambergris, upgraded to Silver early; Star Chart or Astrolabe for The Docks (Days 4 to 7)	Slumbering Primordial, Tortuga, Anchor
Pygmalien	Crook, Showcase or Lumboars; Weights or Ganjo if none	Money Tree with Cash Register, ATM, Business Card, Rewards Card	Private Hot Springs, Pyg’s Gym, Double Whammy
Dooley	Claw Arm with Cog and Pulse Rifle; Weakpoint Detector; Brick Buddy with Clawrence	Crypto whenever you can spare the Gold; Schematics	Critical Core, Weaponized Core, Launcher Core
Mak	Show Globe with Cellar; Candles; Nightshade or Dragon’s Breath	Peacewrought fed with cheap Small items; Sifting Pan	Potion, Eternal Torch, Staff of the Moose
Stelle	Fast Weapons that keep Haste and Charge moving	—	Stellar Swallowtail, Lightning Rod, Space Laser
Jules	Butter, Instant Noodles, Sorbet, Banu Leaves, Black Pepper, Strawberries (June 2026 Freeze guide)	—	Giant Sub, Giant Lollipop, Froyo Cart
Karnok	Self-Slow items and any reliable Haste	—	Runic Claymore, Lost Blade, Wild Bear
The Dragons	Dragon’s Breath Mints, Hef Chibi, Kicks, Patch, Wings (Season 17 guide)	—	Dragon Harp, Superfan, Guzheng

Switch when two things are true: the carry is in a shop or your Stash, and your current board has started losing monster fights it used to win. One quest or scaling Relic at a time keeps the Gold flowing. Mobalytics advises this for Mak’s quest Relics.

Why boards lose, and the fix

What happens in the fight	Cause	Fix
Nothing fires for the first seconds and the enemy is already ahead	Startup time	Haste, Charge or Cooldown reduction aimed at the carry: Rowboat or Figurehead for Vanessa, Motherboard with Lens for Dooley, Flying Potion for Mak, Blender for Jules Freeze. Startup time is first or second in most of Mobalytics’ problem-solving orders.
Your items stop mid-fight	Ammo ran out (it refills after each fight, not during)	More Ammo or a Reload source: Gunpowder, Powder Horn, Cellar, the Gunner or Stocked skills. See Crit, Multicast and Ammo.
Your carry spends the fight Frozen or Slowed	Crowd control	A Radiant enchantment on the carry; the enchantments guide lists where to get one.
You lose slowly to Poison or Burn	Poison ignores Shield; Burn is halved by Shield	Heal or Regen rather than more Shield; a Restorative enchantment or a Lifesteal skill. See Burn, Poison, Regen and Shield.
The enemy outscales you by Day 8	Your board has flat damage	A percentage or Max Health carry: Anchor, Double Whammy, Lost Blade, Wild Bear.
The carry is still Silver on Day 8	Upgrades went elsewhere	Upgrade the carry with level-up rewards. Freeze items and Rowboat need Gold or Diamond to work.

Each level raises Max Health; since Patch 17.0 the Max Health gained from a level-up is capped at 800. Mobalytics’ Double Whammy guide favours events that give extra fights or XP for that reason. Keep Stash space for items that act at the start of each day; an item left on the floor misses that day’s trigger.

Returning after several seasons

Season 20 added the Tiny World expedition on Day 10, the Partner Portal and Thieves Guild, and a Prestige counter you can turn on in Settings. Hotfix 19.3 changed many Charge skills from “the first X times” to “for every X times” (Haste, Slow, Freeze and Charge). Every item change since Patch 14.0 is in the change ledger. Look up an item there before reusing an old build.