Christmas cracker

Christmas crackers are holiday items that were dropped on December 25, 2001 (Christmas Day) during the first RuneScape Christmas holiday event. They are currently the single most expensive item in the game, and also nearly twice the price of the second most expensive item, Blue party hats. Inside of them is a party hat and one other random item, such as some coins or runes. To open it, it must be used with another player. Once opened, one player would get a party hat, and the other player would get a miscellaneous item of little value.

Not many Christmas crackers remain due to the fact that people use to open them for the the rune items that you could get. (Note that during the time of the drop, party hats were near worthless, while some rune items, such as the rune kiteshield, could go up to millions in price). Over time, many have been lost as players with older accounts have quit, been permanently banned, or opened their Christmas crackers for fun as they had already sold other holiday items they had collected and had no need for more money, but wanted to show off their wealth by wasting money and ruining the value of an expensive item. Christmas crackers have not been traded in the discontinued items section of the RuneScape forums for quite some time. Their importance to the RuneScape economy which was so crucial for years starting a few years after their release has long diminished. They are now unimportant, as nearly all transactions involving large amounts of money or items of high value involve other holiday items such as party hats and Halloween masks. Christmas crackers are likely nearing the end of their long reign as the most valuable item in the game.