Hobo nickel

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hobo nickel

This is a hobo nickel -- a small coin, made out of some sort of mysterious, unidentifiable metal, into which has been carved a small bas-relief by an industrious hobo. In this particular case, industry did not correspond with creativity, as the bas-relief depicts an unadorned numeral 5.

Cannot be discarded

(In-game plural: hobo nickels)

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Drop Location

Hobopolis Town Square

Normal Hobo (only if the hobo doesn't drop a body part)

Burnbarrel Blvd.

Hot Hobo

Exposure Esplanade

Cold Hobo

The Heap

Stench Hobo

The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground

Spooky Hobo

The Purple Light District

Sleaze Hobo

Buying with hobo nickels

There are various things in Hobopolis you may purchase with nickels during choice adventures.

Location	Choices	Nickels	Purchase	Notes
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Self-Improvement Educational Films Watch the horror movie	5?	You acquire an effect: Educated (Kinda) (duration: 20 Adventures)
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Trepandation	5?	You acquire an effect: Trepandation (duration: 20 Adventures)
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Self-Improvement Educational Films Watch the...other movie	5?	You acquire an effect: Educated (Sorta) (duration: 20 Adventures)
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Self-Improvement YMHA Check out the weightlifting room	5?	You acquire an effect: It Didn't Kill You (duration: 20 Adventures)
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Self-Improvement YMHA Check out the sauna room	5?	You acquire an effect: The Sweats (duration: 20 Adventures)
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Tanning Salon Get a Deep Tan for 5 hobo nickels	5	You acquire an effect: Healthy Bronze Glow (duration: 20 Adventures)
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Tanning Salon Go Beyond the Pale for 5 hobo nickels	5	You acquire an effect: Chalky White Pallor (duration: 20 Adventures)
Exposure Esplanade		5	bowl of fishysoisse	occurs semi-rarely
The Heap		5	concentrated garbage juice	occurs semi-rarely
The Purple Light District		5	lewd playing card	occurs semi-rarely
Burnbarrel Blvd.		5	jar of squeeze	occurs semi-rarely
The Ancient Hobo Burial Ground		5	deadly lampshade	occurs semi-rarely
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Tools Buy a sharpened hubcap for 10 hobo nickels	10	sharpened hubcap
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Tools Buy an extra-large caltrop for 10 hobo nickels	10	very large caltrop
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Tools Buy The Six-Pack of Pain for 10 hobo nickels	10	The Six-Pack of Pain
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping The Guy Who Carves Driftwood Animals That Nobody Wants	10	3 valuable trinkets
Hobopolis Town Square	Food Court Booze ?	20	Arthur Finn's World-Record Homebrew Stout	is consumed upon purchase
Hobopolis Town Square	Food Court Booze ?	20	Bathtub Jimmy's gin	is consumed upon purchase
Hobopolis Town Square	Food Court Food Sizzling Weasel On a Stick	20	sizzling weasel on a stick	is consumed upon use
Hobopolis Town Square	Food Court Booze ?	20	Mad Jack's 'corn squeezins'	is consumed upon purchase
Hobopolis Town Square	Health Self-Improvement Body Modifications Tattoo Shop?	20	tattoo	can be upgraded 18 times for ever increasing prices
Hobopolis Town Square	Food Court Food Big Merv's Protein Shakes	20	protein shake	is consumed upon purchase
Hobopolis Town Square	Food Court Food Suddenly Salad	20	salad	is consumed upon purchase
Hobopolis Town Square		30	hobo code binder	can have only one
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Music	99	sealskin drum	can only be bought by Seal Clubbers
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Music	99	washboard shield	can only be bought by Turtle Tamers
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Music	99	spaghetti-box banjo	can only be bought by Pastamancers
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Music	99	marinara jug	can only be bought by Saucerors
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Music	99	makeshift castanets	can only be bought by Disco Bandits
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Music	99	left-handed melodica	can only be bought by Accordion Thiefs
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Music	99	dinged-up triangle	need to buy the class-specific instrument first
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Hats Buy a top-hat for 150 hobo nickels	150	battered old top-hat
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Pants Buy some dungarees for 150 hobo nickels	150	hobo dungarees
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Accessories Buy the soap for 150 hobo nickels	150	rope with some soap on it
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Hats Buy a wide-brimmed hat for 200 hobo nickels	200	shapeless wide-brimmed hat
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Pants Buy some leggings for 200 hobo nickels	200	mostly rat-hide leggings
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Accessories Buy the stogie for 200 hobo nickels	200	hobo stogie
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Hats Buy a fedora for 250 hobo nickels	250	crumpled felt fedora
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Pants Buy some suit-pants for 250 hobo nickels	250	old patched suit-pants
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Garment District Accessories Buy the shoes for 250 hobo nickels	250	old soft shoes
Hobopolis Town Square	Shopping Housewares Entertainment Pets ?	1000	monkey

Notes

• 30 hobo nickels can be used to buy a binder in the Mind Yer Binder non-combat adventure in Hobopolis Town Square.
• With the hobo code binder in your inventory or equipped, these can be used to purchase various rewards at the Hobo Marketplace, one of the adventure results in Hobopolis Town Square. These rewards include food, booze, various effects, and equipment.

Collection

• 🥇: ThunderGate (#294980) - 360,000
• 🥈: Rammerking (#1549679) - 109,912
• 🥉: Stupid_hippy (#1557833) - 102,000
• #4: deus ex machina maximus (#1294601) - 89,967
• #5: Chanifean (#1505893) - 83,333
• #6: MoxieMolly (#1349269) - 48,749
• #7: DarkSpuddle (#1437616) - 43,000
• #8: JXQZ (#2778872) - 36,151
• #9: TQuilla (#2771003) - 30,011
• #10: Joell (#253532) - 30,000

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