Board Thread:Animal Jam Talk/@comment-37228306-20181217073152/@comment-32197189-20181218115244

The coding doesn't allow for tan scarves to be released at all, just like Raspberry Gingerbread Top Hats, or Orange Candy Cane Socks this year. Or Black Socks last year.

There was an old thread on the AJW explaining this a bit better. Someone examined the coding within the Jamaaliday Calendar, and posted a screenshot of the code, and explained it all. AJ used a "floating point value" to determine which value [colour] of socks you'd receive, but a rounding error prevented one of them from being released.

Unfortunately, Animal Jam got wind of this thread, and DMCA-copyright-struck the thread (meaning they took legal action and got it closed). They still advertised all of the colour variants as obtainable, but there is one type that isn't. A similar bug is what causes the Holly Leaf Planters and Poofy Rugs etc. to come up differently on the item preview when you receive them from the calendar, as what you receive.

Black socks and some of the other items existed because hackers were able to get in and manipulate the values of the items, so they could force the game to spawn a pair of Black Socks, as oppose to pink or something.

Tan Jamaaliday Scarves are also unobtainable through the Jamaaliday Calendar, but they can be won through The Forgotten Desert. This is why you see so many of them around the game.

The method used to spawn the hacked variants of the other items was comparitively easy, so quite a few people used it last year. This year the most common method was patched, and most hackers have either quit, and the best one has promised not to go hack the game again for personal gain.

I hope this explains it :)