BO7 GobbleGums Explained: All 52 Gums, Odds and Tips

GobbleGums in BO7 Zombies are single-use power-ups you bring into a match in a pack of five. You mostly earn them by playing, because a hidden timer hands out a GobbleGum Award roughly every 25 minutes of match time, twice as fast during a 2x GobbleGum weekend. Season 6 has 52 gums across five rarities. This guide explains the whole system, backed by 65 hours of tracked games and our own in-game tests.

What Are GobbleGums in BO7 Zombies?

A GobbleGum is a consumable that gives you a one-off boost in a Zombies match: free Perks, a Wonder Weapon from the Mystery Box, a round that stops advancing, and so on. Each gum is used up when you chew it. You own a stock of every gum you have earned, and you pick which ones come into a match through your GobbleGum packs.

Rarity	Color	Gums in Season 6	What to expect
Rare	Blue	11	Small, common boosts such as a Max Ammo or a teleport
Epic	Purple	12	Stronger utility, like free ammo for 60 seconds or an extra Perk
Legendary	Orange	13	Big effects such as a free Pack-a-Punch or stopping the round counter
Ultra	Red	8	The rarest: every Perk, a Wonder Weapon, 30,000 Essence
Whimsical	Rainbow	8	Cosmetic only, like zombies in rubber ducky tubes or a random Zombies song

Black Ops 7 launched with 47 GobbleGums, six new ones and 41 returning from Black Ops 6. Five more arrived with later seasons:

• Elemental Exposure (Epic) and Slaylist (Whimsical) in Season 1, on December 4, 2025
• Turncoat (Rare) in Season 2 Reloaded, on March 11, 2026
• Hellping Hound (Legendary) in Season 4 Reloaded, on June 25, 2026
• Fully Packed (Ultra) in Season 5 Reloaded, on August 20, 2026

If you still have gums from Black Ops 6, you can use them in Black Ops 7, as the official BO7 Zombies launch blog confirms. GobbleGums also work in Dead Ops Arcade 4, where most gums have a different effect than in round-based Zombies.

How GobbleGums Work: Packs, the Machine and Gum Types

Before a match you pick five gums for your GobbleGum pack in the Loadout menu. You load in with the first three, and you can never hold more than three at once. Twelve gums are restricted in Rogue Run, and Exit Strategy is also restricted in Starting Room; see the Rogue Run section below.

During the match, the GobbleGum Machine refills you for free. According to the official GobbleGums guide, it gives you one of the gums in your active pack that you are not already holding, as long as you still have it in stock. When you run out of a gum, the machine hands you a flavorless Mr. Peeks gum with no effect. You can switch to another pack mid-match from the pause menu, under GobbleGum Packs.

Switching packs does not swap the gums you are holding right away. Since Season 1 the first three gums of the new pack only come in once you use a gum, take one from the machine or three minutes of match time have passed, according to the Season 1 patch notes. That is why a fresh pack can look like it did nothing for a minute or two.

To chew a gum, open the gum menu in a match. Every gum you hold has two options: Use, which activates it, and Convert, which crushes it for Essence. With the default PC keybinds the menu opens with Y, the three gums sit on 4, 5 and 6, and Convert is 7. On controller, press right on the D-pad to open the menu, then press X on PlayStation or A on Xbox to use the selected gum, or hold Triangle or Y to convert it. If you changed your keybinds, the HUD shows your own keys. More on converting further down.

Instant, Timed and Conditional gums

The pattern on the gumball tells you which of the three types a gum is:

• Instant gums do their thing the moment you chew them. Kill Joy activates an Insta-Kill Power-Up right away.
• Timed gums start immediately but only last a while. Stock Option pulls ammo from your stockpile instead of the magazine for 60 seconds.
• Conditional gums wait for a trigger. Temporal Gift does nothing until you pick up your next time-based Power-Up, then makes it last longer.

How to Get GobbleGums in BO7

Most of your gums come from GobbleGum Awards, which drop on their own while you play. The next section explains how that timer works. On top of those random awards, the game hands out fixed gums you can target.

After every match, the rewards screen lists every gum you earned in that match. In the game below we got three awards: one with 1 gum, one with 3 gums and one with 2 gums.

Player level unlocks

You get 11 gums once while you level up your account. They are not handed out again when you Prestige.

Level	GobbleGum	Rarity
9	Power Keg	Rare
14	Kill Joy	Rare
20	Power Vacuum	Epic
23	Stock Option	Rare
30	Requipment	Epic
32	Dead Drop	Epic
36	Round Off	Legendary
39	Explosive Flourish	Epic
41	Hidden Power	Ultra
45	Armor Gettin’	Legendary
50	Gift Card	Ultra

Round milestones on Survival and Cursed Survival

Every Survival map pays out an Ultra gum at round 50. Cursed Survival adds two more: one for round 25 with Tier I Relics and one for round 50 with Tier II Relics. Round 75 with Tier III Relics gives a different reward, not a gum.

Map	Survival, round 50	Cursed, round 25 (Tier I)	Cursed, round 50 (Tier II)
Vandorn Farm	Gift Card	Hidden Power	Wonderbar!
Exit 115	Perkaholic	Reign Drops	Near Death Experience
Zarya Cosmodrome	Wonderbar!	Time Out	Wonderbar!
Mars	Gift Card	Hidden Power	Reign Drops
Ashwood	Hidden Power	Time Out	Perkaholic
Nuked	Time Out	Hidden Power	Gift Card
Eidskallen Lighthouse	Gift Card	Wonderbar!	Near Death Experience
Tenshu	Wonderbar!	Reign Drops	Time Out

We checked every reward in this table and in the Starting Room table below against the in-game challenge menu in Season 6.

Starting Room milestones

Map	GobbleGum rewards
Ashes of the Damned	Near Death Experience at round 10
Astra Malorum	Hidden Power at round 10
Paradox Junction	Armor Gettin’ at round 10
Totenreich	Flavor Hex at round 10
Kowakujō	Hellping Hound at round 10, Armor Gettin’ at round 25, Hidden Power at round 50
Rex Infernus	Round Off at round 10, Armor Gettin’ at round 20, Fully Packed at round 30

GobbleGum rewards per relic trial

Every relic trial we could check gives a fixed gum on top of the relic and 1,000 XP. That covers 29 of the 30 trials so far; the Wrestler’s Belt is the one relic nobody has found yet. Grim trials mostly give an Epic, Sinister trials mostly a Legendary and Wicked trials mostly an Ultra. We read the rewards off the post-match rewards screen in gameplay footage, because the gum is easy to miss when the trial ends.

Map	Relic	Tier	GobbleGum
Ashes of the Damned	Lawyer’s Pen	Grim	Respin Cycle
Ashes of the Damned	Dragon Wings	Grim	Free Fire
Ashes of the Damned	Teddy Bear	Grim	Who’s Keeping Score?
Ashes of the Damned	Vril Sphere	Sinister	On The House
Ashes of the Damned	Samantha’s Drawing	Sinister	Respin Cycle
Ashes of the Damned	Focusing Stone	Sinister	Phoenix Up
Ashes of the Damned	Bus	Wicked	Wonderbar!
Ashes of the Damned	Dragon	Wicked	Perkaholic
Ashes of the Damned	Blood Vials	Wicked	Hidden Power
Astra Malorum	Gong	Grim	Dead Drop
Astra Malorum	Seed	Grim	Exit Strategy
Astra Malorum	Matryoshka Doll	Sinister	Phoenix Up
Astra Malorum	Spider Fang	Sinister	Wall To Wall Clearance
Astra Malorum	Civil Protector Head	Wicked	Reign Drops
Astra Malorum	Golden Spork	Wicked	Support Group
Paradox Junction	Rocket	Grim	Soda Fountain
Paradox Junction	Summoning Key	Sinister	Round Off
Paradox Junction	Mangler Helmet	Wicked	Perkaholic
Totenreich	Power Switch	Grim	Profit Sharing
Totenreich	Wrestler’s Belt	Grim	Unknown, nobody has found this relic yet
Totenreich	Stuffed Elephant	Sinister	Modified Chaos
Totenreich	Dancing Arnie	Sinister	Flavor Hex
Totenreich	Agarthan Device	Wicked	Near Death Experience
Totenreich	Music Box	Wicked	Near Death Experience
Kowakujō	Gramophone	Grim	Hellping Hound
Kowakujō	Druid Stone	Grim	Power Vacuum
Kowakujō	Valkyrie Helmet	Sinister	Wall Power
Kowakujō	Film Reel	Sinister	Idle Eyes
Kowakujō	Dragon Egg	Wicked	Reign Drops
Kowakujō	Mannequin Turret	Wicked	Gift Card

Rogue Run GobbleGum rewards

Every Rogue Run playlist pays out fixed gums for reaching set rounds or defeating HVTs. More detail in our Rogue Run guide.

Playlist	Gum	Rarity	Condition
Ashes of the Damned: Target: Luci	Who’s Keeping Score?	Epic	Round 5
Ashes of the Damned: Target: Mal	Arsenal Accelerator	Rare	Round 5
Ashes of the Damned: Target: Mal	Hidden Power	Ultra	Defeat Mal
Ashes of the Damned: Target: Mo	Profit Sharing	Epic	Round 5
Ashes of the Damned: All Targets	Modified Chaos	Legendary	Defeat 1 HVT
Ashes of the Damned: All Targets	Perkaholic	Ultra	Defeat 2 HVTs in one run
Astra Malorum Casual	Flavor Hex	Legendary	Round 15
Astra Malorum Casual	Near Death Experience	Ultra	Round 20
Astra Malorum Normal	Hellping Hound	Legendary	Round 20
Astra Malorum Normal	Reign Drops	Ultra	Round 30
Astra Malorum Hardcore	Gift Card	Ultra	Round 20
Astra Malorum Hardcore	Hidden Power	Ultra	Round 30
Paradox Junction Casual	Power Vacuum	Epic	Round 15
Paradox Junction Casual	Hellping Hound	Legendary	Round 20
Paradox Junction Casual	Fully Packed	Ultra	5 rounds at Relic Tier I
Paradox Junction Hardcore	Wonderbar!	Ultra	Round 20
Paradox Junction Hardcore	Gift Card	Ultra	Round 30
Kowakujō Casual	On the House	Legendary	Round 15
Kowakujō Casual	Armor Gettin’	Legendary	Round 20
Kowakujō Casual	Fully Packed	Ultra	5 rounds at Relic Tier I
Kowakujō Hardcore	Hidden Power	Ultra	Round 20
Kowakujō Hardcore	Reign Drops	Ultra	Round 30

Battle Pass GobbleGum

Completing the paid Season 6 Battle Pass gives a Perkaholic. Earlier passes gave a Gift Card or a Perkaholic, so expect one Ultra per season.

Exfil GobbleGum rewards

Exfilling gives Whimsical gums only: one for an exfil from round 11, two from round 31 and three from round 46. No exfil gives a Rare or higher.

Free GobbleGum in the store

The store sells GobbleGum bundles for COD Points, and it has a free gift you can claim under Just For You. In our testing, and according to another player we asked, it comes back about every other day.

How Often You Get a GobbleGum

You get a GobbleGum Award about every 25 minutes of match time, whatever round you are on. Doughnuts tracked every award over 65 hours and 2,031 rounds of BO7 Zombies through December 2025, in a public spreadsheet you can copy to track your own games. The measured average was 26 to 27 minutes between awards, as the video How GobbleGums Actually Work in BO7 Zombies explains. There is most likely also an XP check so you cannot farm gums while AFK, although that part has not been tested.

The catch is that the game only shows the award when a round ends. If you spend 20 minutes on a boss fight, the gum you earned halfway through that round only appears afterwards, and the next one can follow a few minutes later. That is why the gap between awards feels random.

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R3 R4 R5 R6 long boss fight R7 R8

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1. At minute 25 the hidden timer runs out, so a gum is earned. You are still in round 6, so nothing shows yet.
2. Round 6 ends at minute 44 and the GobbleGum Award plays, 19 minutes after the gum was earned.
3. The timer restarted at minute 25, so the next gum is earned at minute 50 and paid when round 7 ends at minute 52, only 8 minutes after the first award.

During a 2x GobbleGum weekend the timer runs about twice as fast.

0 to 10 min

11.7% Base

22.3% 2x GobbleGum

10 to 20 min

17% Base

70.9% 2x GobbleGum

20 to 30 min

34% Base

5.8% 2x GobbleGum

30 to 40 min

26.6% Base

1% 2x GobbleGum

40+ min

10.6% Base

0% 2x GobbleGum

Show the data as a table

Minutes since the last award	Base awards	2x GG awards
0 to 10 min	11	23
10 to 20 min	16	73
20 to 30 min	32	6
30 to 40 min	25	1
40+ min	10	0

Data: 198 tracked GobbleGum Awards (65.8 hours, 2,031 rounds).

Two more things the data shows. You never get an award on round 1, and a gum that pops mid-round without a round change is a bonus from something else, such as a level-up, a challenge or a Survival milestone.

1, 2 or 3 Gums and the Rarity Odds

An award gives 1 gum about 75 percent of the time, 2 gums 15 percent and 3 gums 10 percent. Each gum lands at Rare 50, Epic 30, Legendary 15 or Ultra 5 percent. Every award plays the same animation and tells you how many gums you got.

Treyarch has not published official GobbleGum odds for Black Ops 7, so tracked data is all there is. Those rounded values fit the 198 tracked awards and 265 gums almost exactly, making them the most likely odds the game uses and the basis for every figure in this guide. It is a solid sample, not a huge one, so treat every figure below as an average.

Gums per GobbleGum Award

• 75%1 gum
• 15%2 gums
• 10%3 gums

Rarity of each gum

• 50%Rare
• 30%Epic
• 15%Legendary
• 5%Ultra

Measured: 149, 31 and 18 awards with 1, 2 and 3 gums, and 131, 82, 39 and 13 Rare, Epic, Legendary and Ultra gums.

GobbleGum drop rates in numbers

Here is what the likely odds mean in practice, using the measured time between awards.

• An award gives 1.35 gums on average.
• One award in four (25 percent) contains at least one Legendary or Ultra.
• One award in 15 (about 7 percent) contains an Ultra.
• You get about one Ultra every 6 to 7 hours of normal play, or every 3 to 4 hours during 2x GobbleGum.

Rarity	Share of gums	One specific gum	Wait for one specific gum	With 2x GobbleGum
Rare	50%	1 in 22 gums	about 7 hours	about 4 hours
Epic	30%	1 in 40 gums	about 13 hours	about 7 hours
Legendary	15%	1 in 87 gums	about 29 hours	about 15 hours
Ultra	5%	1 in 160 gums	about 53 hours	about 27 hours

“One specific gum” assumes every gum within a rarity is equally likely across the Season 6 line-up, with one exception covered below, and the waits use the measured 2.2 awards per hour, or 4.4 during 2x GobbleGum. That is also why the fixed milestone rewards are the reliable way to get a particular Ultra.

Within a rarity most gums came up about equally often. The exception is Anywhere But Here, which dropped 25 times, almost double the 13 you would expect if all ten Rares were equally likely. Pure luck would rarely produce a gap this big, so Anywhere But Here most likely has a higher weight, roughly double. Every other gum fits equal odds within its rarity. Not a single Wonderbar! showed up in 65 hours either, but with seven Ultras in the game at the time that is not unusual, because you would expect fewer than two.

2x GobbleGum Weekends Explained

A 2x GobbleGum event halves the timer. In the tracked data the average gap dropped from about 27 minutes to about 13, and the rarity odds showed no meaningful difference. That doubles both awards and gums per hour.

2x GobbleGum is not a token you can activate. It runs as part of some Double XP events, but not every Double XP weekend includes it. To check, look at the Events tab or the Zombies lobby, which show a 2X GobbleGum icon while the event is active.

How to Convert GobbleGums for Essence

Converting, also called crushing, turns a gum you are holding into Essence for your current match. Open the gum menu and pick Convert instead of Use. The gum is gone either way, so converting is how you get value out of gums you would never chew.

The base payout depends only on rarity. We converted one gum of every rarity, without Double Points or Profit Sharing active:

Rarity	Essence	With Double Points
Whimsical	100	200
Rare	500	1,000
Epic	1,250	2,500
Legendary	2,500	5,000
Ultra	5,000	10,000

Double Points doubles the payout, which we checked with a Rare that paid 1,000 during Double Points, and Profit Sharing works on converts too. Some lists put Legendary at 3,000 Essence, but in our test it paid 2,500.

What we crush depends on which gums pile up in our stock. For us that means Ultras like Time Out and Wonderbar!, Legendaries like Idle Eyes, Modified Chaos and Hellping Hound, Epics like Respin Cycle and Explosive Flourish, and Rares like Tactical Diffusion and Shields Up. A separate pack full of gums you never use makes this easy: activate Double Points, switch to that pack in the pause menu and convert what the machine gives you. A low-stakes match is the best time to burn the expensive ones.

GobbleGums in Rogue Run

You can bring GobbleGums into Rogue Run, but 12 of them cannot be used there:

• Rare: Anywhere But Here
• Epic: Respin Cycle, Exit Strategy, Soda Fountain and Nowhere But There
• Legendary: Wall Power, Flavor Hex, Immolation Liquidation, Wall To Wall Clearance and Crate Power
• Ultra: Wonderbar! and Time Out

That still leaves six of the eight Ultras, including Perkaholic, Hidden Power and Fully Packed. Tick “Allowed in Rogue Run” in the table of all 52 gums to see everything you can take in. The gums Rogue Run pays out are in the Rogue Run rewards section above.

GobbleGums in Dead Ops Arcade 4

Most gums have a second, completely different effect in Dead Ops Arcade 4. Time Out, for example, clears the round in Zombies, but in Dead Ops Arcade it sets off a free Nuke at the start of every round for 30 minutes. Gift Card gives $30,000 to spend in the SlayerMart instead of Essence, and a few effects only work in Arenas or Slayer Events. Every gum card below lists both effects where the game shows them.

So far, the balance changes to GobbleGums have only touched Dead Ops Arcade. In Season 2, Round Off’s round cap there went from 60 to 70, the Shields Up sawblade got shorter and Exit Strategy started hatching coins from eggs, according to the Season 2 patch notes. In round-based Zombies no gum has been buffed or nerfed so far.

Best GobbleGums in BO7 by Situation

There is no single best GobbleGum, because the best gum depends on what you are trying to do. The picks below come from our own games and from the players in our team who run these modes most, with the official guide’s advice where it still holds.

Best GobbleGums for main quests

Round Off, Perkaholic, Gift Card, Armor Gettin’. Round Off is the one that matters: it holds the round counter for two rounds, so you can finish the steps and start the boss fight on a low round. Perkaholic, Gift Card and Armor Gettin’ give you Perks, Essence and armor without a setup phase. Leave Time Out out of a quest pack, because it ends the round and pushes you one higher, the opposite of what you want. The official guide suggests Perkaholic, Time Out, Phoenix Up, Arsenal Accelerator, Kill Joy and Shields Up; we would swap Time Out for Round Off.

Best GobbleGums for boss fights

Phoenix Up, Near Death Experience, Reign Drops. Phoenix Up and Near Death Experience get a downed teammate back up with their Perks, and Reign Drops puts every core Power-Up on the floor at once, so the whole team gets a Nuke, Full Power for their Field Upgrades and a Max Ammo when the fight turns. Solo, swap Phoenix Up for Aftertaste, which keeps your Perks through a down, and add Free Fire if you have one.

Best GobbleGums for a fast start

Perkaholic with Aftertaste, Wall Power, Crate Power, Armor Gettin’. Every Perk on round 1, protected by Aftertaste, and a Pack-a-Punched weapon or full armor without spending Essence. If you are sitting on a pile of Ultras, or the game really matters, add Hidden Power and Fully Packed next to Perkaholic and you are fully set up before round 5. That is three Ultras in one pack, so we only do it when we have them to spare.

Best GobbleGums for Essence and converting

Gift Card, Who’s Keeping Score?, Profit Sharing, Temporal Gift, Tactical Diffusion. Gift Card is 30,000 Essence in one chew. For a convert farm the order matters: chew Profit Sharing first, then Temporal Gift, then Who’s Keeping Score? or grab a Double Points drop. With Double Points running, switch your pack in the pause menu to one that only holds crushers, the gums you never chew, and convert everything the machine hands you. Profit Sharing adds to every convert, Temporal Gift makes the Double Points last longer and Double Points doubles the payout.

Best GobbleGums for co-op

Phoenix Up, Reign Drops, Near Death Experience. The same three as for boss fights, because in co-op the run ends when the revives run out. Reign Drops is the panic button: one chew hands the whole squad a Nuke, full Field Upgrades and every other Power-Up. Nowhere But There is the cheaper backup, since it teleports you to a downed teammate and revives everyone around you.

Best GobbleGums for high rounds

Cache Back, Time Out, Aftertaste, and Phoenix Up in co-op. Cache Back is a Max Ammo when the drops dry up, Time Out clears the map and buys you a minute to reset, and Aftertaste protects your Perks through a down until you have your permanent Perks. In co-op Phoenix Up takes the Aftertaste slot.

Best GobbleGums for emergencies

Anywhere But Here, Idle Eyes, Time Out. Teleport out, freeze the horde for 30 seconds or clear the round.

Best GobbleGums for challenges and camos

Crate Power, Dead Drop. The official guide suggests them for Pack-a-Punch challenges and for Salvage toward Scorestreak challenges.

For solo high rounds, content creator DeadVerse opens his high-round list with Shields Up, Free Fire, Perkaholic, Idle Eyes and Aftertaste in the video The Best GobbleGum Setups You Should Use in BO7 Zombies.

Buying GobbleGums: Store Bundles and Pay to Win

The Zombies store sells GobbleGum bundles for COD Points, which cost real money. Two kinds show up: fixed bundles that stay for a while, and a row of rotating offers. These were in the store at the end of September 2026, during Season 6:

Bundle	Price	Gums	Per gum	What is in it
Essentials Pack III	1,100 CP	28	39 CP	Armor Gettin’ x4, Flavor Hex x4, Soda Fountain x4, Who’s Keeping Score? x4, Free Fire x4, Power Keg x4, Kill Joy x4
Chaos Concoction II	1,800 CP	42	43 CP	Every Ultra x2 and every Legendary x2: the Master Pack II line-up twice
Master Pack II	1,100 CP	21	52 CP	All 8 Ultras x1 and all 13 Legendaries x1, including Gift Card, Perkaholic, Wonderbar! and Fully Packed
Triple Trouble II	1,300 CP	9	144 CP	Perkaholic x3, Hidden Power x3, Wonderbar! x3

Rotating GobbleGum offers

Next to the fixed bundles, the store has two smaller offers that change about once a day, or right away when you buy one. Every pair we saw was a 400 CP offer with five gums and a 500 CP offer with eight.

Offer	Price	Gums	Per gum	What is in it
Field Support	400 CP	5	80 CP	Dead Drop x2, Near Death Experience x1, Support Group x1, Tactical Diffusion x1
Double Field Support	500 CP	8	63 CP	Near Death Experience x2, Support Group x2, Dead Drop x2, Tactical Diffusion x2
Explosive Flavor	400 CP	5	80 CP	Requipment x2, Wonderbar! x1, Flavor Hex x1, Kill Joy x1
Double Revive Pack	500 CP	8	63 CP	Near Death Experience x2, Phoenix Up x2, Shields Up x2, Nowhere But There x1, Profit Sharing x1
Reigny Day Pack	400 CP	5	80 CP	Requipment x2, Reign Drops x1, Round Off x1, Aftertaste x1
Double Escape Artist Pack	500 CP	8	63 CP	Near Death Experience x2, Phoenix Up x2, Anywhere But Here x2, Nowhere But There x1, Exit Strategy x1
Power-Ups Pack	400 CP	5	80 CP	Reign Drops x1, Immolation Liquidation x1, On The House x1, Who’s Keeping Score? x1, Temporal Gift x1
Double Quest Pack	500 CP	8	63 CP	Near Death Experience x2, Free Fire x2, Arsenal Accelerator x2, Phoenix Up x1, Idle Eyes x1

Every rotating offer we saw over five days had at least one Ultra, but at 63 to 80 CP per gum they cost more per gum than the big fixed bundles.

Are GobbleGums pay to win?

A little. Buying a stack of Perkaholics or Gift Cards makes a boss fight easier, and a Reddit thread from a solo player who could not afford more gums for the Warden fight drew more than 80 replies. Most of the top replies said the same thing we would, that you do not need to buy gums. Regular play, the fixed Ultra milestones on every Survival map and the free store gift give you plenty, and many players clear Easter eggs with barely any gums at all.

“Ive never used any gums for Easter eggs besides the usual max ammo or full power gum.”

- u/D4RK1773R4019, via r/BO7Zombies

If you do buy, the table shows that the big packs give far more gums per COD Point, while Triple Trouble II costs the most per gum because it is all Ultras.

How to Farm GobbleGums Fast

No trick beats simply playing, because awards run on match time, but you can make that time count.

1. Play long matches. Every 25 minutes or so earns an award, whatever round you are on.
2. Save your longest sessions for a 2x GobbleGum weekend, when the timer runs twice as fast.
3. Go for the round milestones. Reaching round 50 on each of the eight Survival maps alone gives eight Ultras, and Cursed Survival and Starting Room add more.
4. Run the Rogue Run playlists and relic trials for their fixed gum rewards.
5. Claim the free gift in the store whenever it is back, about every other day.
6. Level up. The 11 level-unlock gums come once, but two of them are Ultras.

Stay away from glitches and paid unlock services. Exploits get patched, and handing your account to a service puts it at risk for a few gums.

All 52 GobbleGums in BO7

Every GobbleGum in Season 6, with the effect text from the game itself. Filter by rarity, type or Rogue Run, or search for a gum, and click a name to jump to its full card below.

Rare GobbleGums in BO7

The eleven Rare gums are the ones you see most, about half of all gums from GobbleGum Awards. Converting one pays 500 Essence.

Aftertaste

New in Black Ops 7. It only matters if you go down. Chew it before a risky stretch and a revive keeps your Perks instead of wiping them. It was the second most common gum in the tracked awards, 16 of 265.

Anywhere But Here

The emergency exit when you are cornered, since the teleport also knocks back the zombies around you. It was by far the most common drop in the tracked awards, 25 of 265 gums.

Arsenal Accelerator

Five minutes of faster Field Upgrade charge. Pick it when your Field Upgrade carries your build.

Cache Back

A Max Ammo whenever you want one, which helps most in a trial or boss fight where ammo is scarce.

Kill Joy

An Insta-Kill on demand. Save it for the wave that matters, such as an HVT wave in a relic trial.

Power Keg

A Full Power Power-Up on demand, so your Field Upgrade is ready right before a fight.

Shields Up

Refills your armor and makes it twice as strong for three minutes, a cheap safety net for boss fights and high rounds. It is also one of the Rares we usually convert when they pile up.

Stock Option

Sixty seconds of firing straight from your reserve ammo without reloading, which pays off most on weapons with small magazines.

Tactical Diffusion

Trades the explosion of your next Nuke for 2,000 Essence for the whole team. It is one of the Rares we usually convert instead.

Temporal Gift

Pair it with a Power-Up gum so the Power-Up you trigger lasts longer. Temporal Gift followed by Kill Joy is the official guide’s own example, and Who’s Keeping Score? works the same way.

Turncoat

Added in Season 2 Reloaded. It charms the zombies around you so they fight on your side. There is no fixed way to earn it, so it only comes from GobbleGum Awards and store bundles.

Epic GobbleGums in BO7

Twelve Epic gums, about 30 percent of drops. Converting one pays 1,250 Essence.

Dead Drop

Five minutes of much higher Salvage and Equipment drops. The official guide suggests it before a Scorestreak challenge, since Salvage buys Scorestreaks.

Elemental Exposure

Added in Season 1. For three minutes every hit deals damage of the target’s elemental weakness. It has no fixed source, so it only comes from GobbleGum Awards and bundles.

Exit Strategy

Takes you out of the match on the spot, with no Exfil vote. Use it to bank a run before it goes wrong.

Explosive Flourish

For two minutes every reload blows up zombies around you, and reloading from an emptier magazine makes a bigger blast. It is one of the Epics we usually convert.

Free Fire

Sixty seconds of unlimited ammo, except on Wonder Weapons and underbarrel launchers. Solid in a solo boss fight, with Aftertaste as the safety net.

Nowhere But There

A co-op rescue gum. It teleports you to a downed teammate and instantly revives the players around you.

Power Vacuum

New in Black Ops 7. Power-Ups drop more often for five minutes, which works well with Temporal Gift.

Profit Sharing

For two minutes you and nearby teammates share part of the Essence you each earn. It also boosts gum converts.

Requipment

New in Black Ops 7. Your equipment slots refill over five minutes, so you can use lethals and tacticals far more often.

Respin Cycle

Rerolls a Mystery Box weapon you do not like, and the new one is at least the same rarity. It is one of the Epics we usually convert.

Soda Fountain

Your next Perk purchase gives you a second, random Perk on top.

Who’s Keeping Score?

A Double Points on demand. Convert your spare gums while it runs and every one pays double.

Legendary GobbleGums in BO7

Thirteen Legendary gums, about 15 percent of drops. Converting one pays 2,500 Essence.

Armor Gettin’

New in Black Ops 7. A full 3-plate vest with full plates in one go, which saves Salvage early in a match.

Crate Power

The next weapon you take from the Mystery Box comes Pack-a-Punched.

Flavor Hex

Turns into a random Ultra. If the Ultra is one you do not need, converting it pays 5,000 Essence, twice what a Legendary is worth.

Hellping Hound

Added in Season 4 Reloaded. A friendly Hellhound fights next to you for five minutes. It is one of the Legendaries we usually convert.

Idle Eyes

Thirty seconds in which zombies ignore everyone and stand still, enough to revive a teammate, reposition or finish an Easter egg step. It is one of the Legendaries we usually convert.

Immolation Liquidation

A Fire Sale on demand. It also spawns a box you can spin while the Seed relic has the Mystery Box switched off.

Modified Chaos

Ammo Mod cooldowns drop sharply for 60 seconds, so elemental effects trigger far more often. It is one of the Legendaries we usually convert.

On The House

A free random Perk that counts on top of the ones you buy, which makes it one of the ways past the four-Perk limit on the Vril Sphere relic.

Phoenix Up

Revives the whole team, and your teammates keep their Perks. A strong save in co-op.

Round Off

New in Black Ops 7. It stops the round counter for two rounds, so you can finish Easter egg steps at a lower round. Players on Reddit use it to reach the Warden boss fight early.

Support Group

Hands you an ARC-XD, Mangler Cannon, Sentry Turret and Disciple Injection in that order. ZoneX’s crew first cleared the Film Reel relic trial with it, but in our own runs it failed about half the time, so we buy the Scorestreaks with Salvage instead.

Wall Power

The next wall-buy weapon comes Pack-a-Punched, a safe early upgrade without gambling on the Mystery Box.

Wall To Wall Clearance

Handy early in a match when Essence is tight, because for 30 seconds any wall weapon costs next to nothing.

Ultra GobbleGums in BO7

The eight Ultras make up about 5 percent of drops, roughly one gum in 20. Converting one pays 5,000 Essence.

Fully Packed

Added in Season 5 Reloaded. It puts the weapon in your hands at Pack-a-Punch III instantly.

Gift Card

New in Black Ops 7. It gives 30,000 Essence the moment you chew it, so never convert it. Crushing pays only 5,000.

Hidden Power

Upgrades the weapon in your hands straight to Legendary rarity. It has more fixed sources than any other gum.

Near Death Experience

For three minutes or five revives, you revive teammates just by standing near them and they keep their Perks. It is built for co-op and does little solo.

Perkaholic

Every Perk at once. One player on Reddit pops it on round 1 and follows with Aftertaste, so a down does not cost the Perks.

Reign Drops

Every core Power-Up drops at once: Nuke, Max Ammo, Full Power for the whole team’s Field Upgrades and more, which makes it our panic button in co-op and boss fights. Grab the Double Points first if you plan to convert gums right after.

Time Out

Clears the map, ends the round and keeps normal spawns off for three minutes, which buys you a minute to reset at high rounds. Keep it out of a main quest pack, because it pushes you a round higher. Players on Reddit convert spare Time Outs during Double Points instead, and it is one of the Ultras we usually convert too.

Wonderbar!

Your next Mystery Box spin is a Wonder Weapon. Not one dropped in 65 hours of tracked awards, so the fixed sources are the realistic way to get one.

Whimsical GobbleGums in BO7

The eight Whimsical gums are purely cosmetic and never drop from GobbleGum Awards. The only way to get them is exfilling: one Whimsical for an exfil from round 11, two from round 31 and three from round 46. We tested this ourselves. Converting one pays 100 Essence.

Die Pitched

Holiday Cheer

Indiegestion

Jacked Lanterns

Added to Black Ops 6 in its Season 6, and part of the lineup since the Black Ops 7 launch.

Newtonian Negation

Quacknarok

Rainburps

Slaylist

Added in Season 1, with six more songs in Season 6.

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