Monopoly GO Bart's Treasures Complete Guide — All 20 Milestones, Pickaxe Strategy & Simpsons Album Finale Sprint (Jul 20-24)

Bart's Treasures is live in Monopoly GO from 1 PM ET, Sunday July 20 through 1 PM ET, Thursday July 24, 2026 — a four-day dig event that doubles as the final major reward push before the Simpsons album closes on July 29. Twenty milestones, up to 4,750 free dice, two episode sticker packs, a blue pack, a shield skin, and the always-clutch Wild Sticker at Milestone 20. If you have any 4-star or 5-star holes left in the Simpsons album, this is the last dig event tuned to fill them before Farm Fortunes takes over the sticker economy.

This guide breaks down the full 20-milestone track, the pickaxe economy, the Bart's Treasures Tournament that starts alongside it on July 21, and — most importantly — how to sequence the whole weekend so the dig, the tournament, and the Simpsons album finale sprint all feed into each other instead of stealing rolls from one another.

When Does Bart's Treasures Start & End?

Bart's Treasures runs 96 hours, from 1 PM ET on Sunday July 20, 2026 to 1 PM ET on Thursday July 24, 2026. That's a Sunday-to-Thursday window — different from most dig events, which usually land Thursday-to-Sunday around the weekend. Plan accordingly: the biggest dice pushes will land on the Sunday launch evening and again on Wednesday–Thursday during the final sprint.

• Start: Sunday July 20 · 1 PM ET / 6 PM UK / 7 PM CEST / 2 AM JST Monday
• End: Thursday July 24 · 1 PM ET / 6 PM UK / 7 PM CEST / 2 AM JST Friday
• Total window: 4 days / 96 hours
• Tournament tie-in: Bart's Treasures Tournament starts Monday July 21 at 1 PM ET (48-hour ladder tournament running through most of the dig)

Because the tournament kicks off after the dig launches, the smartest opening move is to bank rolls Sunday night and unload during the tournament window on Monday and Tuesday, when every roll fuels two ladders at once.

All 20 Bart's Treasures Milestones — Full Reward Ladder

The full ladder is 20 levels. Milestone rewards get community-verified on launch day, but based on Scopely's standard Simpsons-era dig-event structure and the reward totals confirmed for this event, here is the expected shape of the track. Treat rewards on early tiers as fuel to reach the four guaranteed anchor milestones (5 / 10 / 13 / 17 / 20) that carry the headline prizes.

Milestone counts and dice bundles at the tier level are based on the confirmed grand total (~4,750 dice) and anchor rewards; per-tier line items track the standard Scopely dig-event distribution and get community-verified within a few hours of the event going live. Milestones 5, 10, 13, 17, 20 are the confirmed reward anchors.

Pickaxe Economy — How Many You Actually Need

Bart's Treasures uses pickaxes, not dice, as the dig currency. Every tile you tap on the grid burns pickaxes; find the buried Bart's Skateboard, sticker packs, and reward stashes and you earn points that feed the 20-milestone ladder. Two structural rules that matter for planning:

• The dig itself gives zero pickaxes. Every pickaxe you spend has to come from an external source — mostly tournaments and quick wins.
• Completion cost is ~400 pickaxes minimum, closer to 500–600 realistically if you play a normal checkerboard pattern. Whales can push through faster by opening large chests, but the 400-pickaxe floor is the community benchmark for reaching Milestone 20.

Where pickaxes come from during this window

• Principal Pranks (July 20–27 · Simpsons Week Of event) — one of the largest overlapping pickaxe caches this week
• Bart's Treasures Tournament ladder rewards (starts July 21, 1 PM ET) — rewards pickaxes at most tiers
• Tycoon Class tournament (July 20–22, 48-hour) — a smaller pickaxe source that overlaps the opening 48 hours
• Quick Wins — daily challenge track pays pickaxes at intervals
• Free gifts and dice links — small drops but they add up across 4 days

Dig strategy — the diagonal checkerboard

The dig grid rewards tap efficiency, not brute force. The community-tested rule of thumb is the diagonal checkerboard sweep: instead of clearing rows left-to-right, tap every other tile in a diagonal pattern and only fully clear a zone once you've spotted the corner of a large prize. That pattern cuts pickaxe consumption roughly in half on 1×1 and 2×2 prizes, which are the vast majority of drops early on.

Bart's Treasures Tournament (July 21 Overlap)

A 48-hour Bart's Treasures Tournament kicks off Monday July 21 at 1 PM ET and closes Wednesday July 23. It's a full ladder tournament, meaning every dice roll during the window scores tournament points on top of your normal board progression. That produces the weekend's biggest overlap:

• Rolls during Jul 21 1PM ET → Jul 23 1PM ET: feed the tournament ladder and earn pickaxes for the dig and earn tokens for Principal Pranks and progress the Simpsons album partner event
• Optimal opening play: bank rolls on Sunday's launch, then unload during Monday's High Roller / Cash Grab overlaps
• Tournament ladder rewards: pickaxes at most tiers plus dice and sticker packs — the payout is directly comparable to a mid-tier weekend tournament

The Simpsons Album Finale Sprint (Ends July 29)

The Monopoly GO x Simpsons album, which launched June 3, 2026, closes on July 29 at 1 PM ET. That gives you about nine days from the Bart's Treasures launch to close out any remaining Simpsons stickers. Bart's Treasures matters here specifically because every anchor milestone drops a sticker pack: episode packs at Milestones 5 and 15, blue at 10, purple at 17, and a Wild Sticker at 20.

What to prioritize for the finale sprint

• Save the Wild Sticker for a specific 5-star gold-tier card you cannot get any other way — usually one of the four or five hard-to-pull rare stickers per season
• Hold duplicates in the sticker exchange until Monday July 28 — a last-minute Golden Blitz for a Simpsons-adjacent set is the historical pattern before every album close
• Trade aggressively in your Simpsons album trading group between now and July 29; after that date, all Simpsons stickers become inactive in trading
• Prestige rewards: the album pays out for every prestige tier hit before July 29. If you're 1–2 stars short of a prestige break, this dig is your last major dice pool to close the gap

After the album closes on July 29, Farm Fortunes (the Looney Tunes / Bugs Bunny crossover) launches the same day and runs through September 23. The finale partner event Finale Partners (July 24 → July 29) is the sub-event that bridges the two albums.

How to Prepare — The 48-Hour Pre-Dig Plan

1. Bank rolls: don't spend anything above your peg-e and daily quick-win threshold from July 20 morning through the 1 PM ET launch. Aim to enter with at least 1,500–2,000 stored dice.
2. Complete Homer's Hoagie and Northern Lights Golden Blitz duplicates: any leftover blitz dupes convert to sticker packs or dice via the exchange before the album closes.
3. Set your Bart's Skateboard token target: it drops at Milestone 13, so plan your pickaxe budget to reach at least 13 even on a low-roll weekend.
4. Enable notifications for Rent Frenzy and Cash Grab: the Milestone 4, 7, 9, 14, 18 boosters chain into the dig and multiply pickaxe-per-roll efficiency.
5. Line up a trading partner for the finale sprint — one active trading contact between now and July 29 is worth ~15% of an album's remaining stickers.

What to Do First When the Event Goes Live

1. Play through the tutorial dig to unlock the full grid (~5 pickaxes)
2. Clear Milestone 1–5 in one sitting: those five tiers use the smallest pickaxe footprint and pay the first sticker pack
3. Save the rest of your banked dice for Monday July 21 1 PM ET (tournament + dig double-scoring window)
4. Do not chase Milestone 13 in the first 12 hours — the token is worth waiting for the Rent Frenzy overlap on Milestone 9 and Milestone 14, which cuts your net pickaxe cost significantly
5. Grand target: reach Milestone 20 by Thursday July 24, 8 AM ET to leave a 5-hour buffer before the event closes

Do You Need Extra Dice for the Finale Sprint?

Between Bart's Treasures, the tournament, Principal Pranks, and the Simpsons album close on July 29, this is genuinely the biggest 9-day dice window of the season. If you're chasing Milestone 20 and a Simpsons album prestige tier and a tournament podium, you're looking at 25,000–35,000 dice across the week — comfortably above what free-to-play dice links and daily quests provide.

If you're specifically short on the last 4-star or 5-star Simpsons album stickers with only a few days left, the itemd2r Monopoly GO sticker service delivers real stickers same-day, no waiting for a matching Golden Blitz that may never come before July 29 — a much cleaner solve than grinding an extra 15,000 dice hoping for a lucky pack pull in the final 48 hours.

Bart's Treasures FAQ

Do I need to play the Simpsons album to unlock Bart's Treasures?
No — the dig event is open to every player regardless of album progress. But the sticker packs it drops will only apply to the Simpsons album if opened before July 29.

What happens to unused pickaxes at July 24, 1 PM ET?
They expire when the event window closes. Any pickaxes still in your inventory at the end of the dig are lost — do not hoard past Milestone 20.

Can I earn pickaxes after the tournament ends July 23?
Yes — Principal Pranks (running through July 27) and Quick Wins continue to pay pickaxes through the final day of the dig on July 24.

Is the Bart's Skateboard token permanent?
Yes — once you claim it at Milestone 13, it stays in your token collection permanently. It's a cosmetic board token, not a one-time-use item.

How does the Wild Sticker at Milestone 20 work?
The Wild Sticker completes any single sticker slot in your active album — Simpsons (until July 29) or Farm Fortunes (from July 29 onward). If you save it past July 29 without spending, it will still be usable in the new album.