Board Thread:Hay Day/@comment-24931884-20140512092959/@comment-24896668-20140515083058

You get a new paper about every 5 minutes. If you still have the paper with the ad in it, it is like Ironwestie wrote. If your newspaper updated before you open it again, you're out of luck.

If I find such a boat, I follow the farm. If my follow list is full, I quickly go to a farm in the follow list and unfollow it. Then I open the paper on their farm to refind the shaded ad. There's no need to go back to your own farm to open the paper, you can do that on any farm. I've never been too late to get back to the farm asking for help this way.

Another way is to keep one empty spot in your follow list at all times. So you can add the farm you came across, then go to another in the list to unfollow.

The follow list is short and it's a bit clumsy but it works.