Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34343471-20191124090407/@comment-35188846-20191126024236

BelleJoker wrote: Best tip I've gotten for the Emerald Event: if you get a location you don't think you can finish, hit Pause and then exit out to the map. Repeat until you get to a location you like. Yes, each exit/retry will spend several seconds, but it's worth it if you end up in a place you can complete quickly and accurately.

Credit goes to MaggieSN who posted the technique in September here (I don't know if she discovered it, but that's where I learned about it): https://seekers-notes.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:192069

Another good way to deal with rooms you don't like is to use lightning in a bottle. Of course, you need to have a good stockpile. But if you use them (I think it takes 8 to clear a room), you get 72 emeralds in just under 30 seconds, and on to the next room. I have several hundred, so I use them for rooms I don't like or even just when I don't see an item within a couple seconds. I can usually get 4 spins worth of emeralds from each candle.