Despicable Me: Minion Rush tips, tricks, and cheats
Despicable Me: Minion Rush is highly addicting and if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent several hours running your minion through different stages in order to collect bananas, Gru tokens, and fruit. The further you get into the Jelly Labs, the harder the challenges become. Luckily that doesn’t mean you need to spend real world money in order to advance. From gift code combinations to using your Gru tokens wisely, here are our top tips, hints, and cheats for advancing in Minion Rush, no real money required!
1. Trade bananas for upgrades
The most obvious tip I can give you that will cost you nothing is to collect as many bananas as you can. Most character upgrades and level ups can be purchased in game with just the bananas you collect. Sometimes I’ll run through levels just to collect bananas and stock up.
If you aren’t opposed to spending some money, the one thing you absolutely should by is the Golden Banana. It will give you double points for each banana you collect, forever. That means you will be able to buy upgrades with your bananas twice as fast, indefinitely.
2. Connect to Facebook
Connecting to Facebook not only allows you the ability to send your entertaining friends taunts and challenges but also gives you extra Gru tokens just for connecting. So if you have a Facebook account, make sure you link it up. You’ll also earn a Gru token each day that you connect to Facebook through Minion Rush, and since tokens are hard to come by, 1 a day adds up!
3. Save the Evil Minion for especially tough challenges
Once you’ve unlocked the PX41 serum, you’ll be able to transform into Evil Minion. While in this mode, you’ll be able to destroy anything in your path. When you’re faced with a challenge that requires you to have an insanely high Despicable bonus, or you need to plow past a tough obstacle so you don’t have to cash in Gru tokens to continue, these are the times you’ll want to activate the Evil Minion. Just remember you can only use it every few hours so use it with care.
4. Upgrade your power-ups wisely
As you get further into runs, you’ll notice bonus items that you can use to help you along. Powering these up can be done from the main menu. You’ll have to cash in your bananas and tokens though so it’s important to choose wisely. For example, if you’re going into a challenge that requires you to break through a lot of ice using the freeze ray, level up the freeze ray by cashing in bananas. This will make the challenge a lot easier and allow you to advance faster.
There are a few power-ups that are always safe bets and always benefit you, and those are the ones that net you large amounts of bananas. So be sure to level up the Banana Splitter and the Fluffy Unicorn whenever you can. More bananas means more upgrades.
5. Different costumes are better suited for some challenges
You may notice that each level gives you suggestions on what costume you should wear. This isn’t for no reason. Different costumes have different powers or benefits and if you’re performing a challenge that requires you to have a huge Despicable bonus, it’s probably best you use the costume that extends the XXL Minion. This theory applies to lots of other challenge and costume pairs as well. So if you’re stuck on a challenge, re-evaluate what you’re wearing and see if a costume change will improve your odds.
6. Don’t use tokens to continue runs
Minion Rush isn’t like other games such as Candy Crush. You have an infinite amount of runs and for the most part, getting a super long run doesn’t do anything but boost your top score. You also only need one fruit item to unlock the next level so if you’ve already got that, don’t waste your precious Gru tokens. They are always better spent on costumes, items, and upgrades.
Instead, just start the run over in order to complete it. I can’t think of any scenario where you’d need to cash in tokens to continue a run, unless you’re really having a hard time. However, with the new Jelly Labs mode of play, most challenges can be completed in shorter runs as long as you choose costumes and upgrades wisely.
7. How to get to the Disco Room
While in Gru’s lab, watch for an area where you see bananas off the track and on a pipe off to the right. You can steer towards that for an awesome bonus portion of the game in the Disco Room.
8. Gift Codes
Minion Rush has a section in the settings panel for gift codes. Here are the combinations of minions to use in order to unlock the corresponding prize:
- Baby Minion — Normal Minion + Fireman Minion + Baby Minion
- 5x Banana Perks — Baby Minion + Fireman Minion + Maid Minion
- Loser Taunt — Maid Minion + Normal Minion + Golf Minion
- 3x Minion Launcher — Beach Minion + Fireman Minion + Mustache Minion
- 1 Banana Bunch — Golf Minion + Beach Minion + Mustache Minion
The codes above are verified as working as of the end of August 2014. If you find any more that work, feel free to leave them in the comments and we’ll check these regularly and update! If they don’t work for you anymore, please let us know that too!
9. Collect your silver prize pods
While you only need one fruit to advance to the next level, you can keep running in order to collect 2 more. Essentially, this is just like getting a 3 star bonus. Some items you’ll want to collect can be obtained through collecting enough fruits in each stage, like puzzle pieces to unlock costumes. You may be able to advance but you’ll need a specific number to collect a silver prize pod, even more for a Despicable multiplier. Both are worth having so trace your steps and be sure you’re completing each level to the best of your ability.
This goes along with my tip about Facebook but in case you didn’t realize, every day that you log in to Minion Rush, you’ll get a banana bonus. This isn’t dependent on Facebook so even users that don’t tie to a Facebook account will get the banana bonus daily. If you do though, you’ll also get a Gru token for coming back every day.
Your Despicable Me: Minion Rush tips, hints, and cheats?
Been playing Minion Rush? If you’ve figured out anything cool we haven’t mentioned here or have any other tips you think readers would benefit from, make sure to drop them in the comments below!
Note: Originally published, July 2013. Updated August 2014.
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Minion Rush Cheats and Cheat Codes, Android
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Focus on trying to complete the goals that you are given throughout the game as they will reward you with plenty of tokens. Having lots of tokens will help enable you to continue on in the game if you crash.
Take control of your minion using your device’s tilt functionality when you see a large patch of runway approaching. Make sure you use gentle movements and forget about trying to grab any bananas, just focus on trying to survive.
Make sure you take advantage of the feature that allows you to switch lanes in mid-air whenever you see an upcoming obstacle.
When given the option of either grabbing a handful of bananas or bumping into fellow minions it is more beneficial to do the latter as this will increase your score multiplayer. To bump into another minion to take them out you just need to be in the nearest lane to them, your minion will automatically take care of the rest.
With the bananas you collect you will be able to buy most of the upgrades, make getting the Minion Shield upgrade your first priority as having this will allow you to survive a collision on the course.
Whenever the Fluffy Unicon icon appears on screen make sure that you grab it as it will allow you to unlock a mini-game from the store that will enable you to earn bonus bananas.
When you enter the following gift code combinations you will receive the corresponding reward.
Referee Minion Costume:
Enter Knight Minion + Fireman Minion + Hula Minion
Kung Fu Taunt:
Enter Fireman Minion + Golf Minion + Normal Minion
x3 Banana Perks:
Enter Hula Minion + Maid Minion + Diaper Minion
x3 Score Perks:
Enter Golf Minion + Golf Minion + Diaper Minion
x5 Score Perks:
Enter Diaper Minion + Hula Minion + Golf Minion
x5 Banana Perks:
Enter Hula Minion + Mustache Minion + Firefighter Minion
Laughing Taunt:
Enter Golf Minion + Knight Minion + Mustache Minion
x5 Score Perks:
Enter Maid Minion +. .
Make sure you avoid the large units that vector drops onto lanes when you are fighting him and send explosive objects hurtling towards his ship by tapping on them.
It is important that you make sure you don’t forget that you have to manually claim any Gru tokens you may have earned when you complete a task, the game does not do it for you automatically.
Whenever you watch any of the short video adverts you will be rewarded with 1 free Gru token.
Connect to Facebook to gain the the ability to send your friends taunts and challenges. The first time that you connect you will be given 50 extra Gru tokens.
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