Play scenes in two passes
The instinct is to hunt objects in list order, which is the slowest way through a scene. Take one pass for everything your eye lands on immediately, then a second, slower sweep working across the image in sections rather than jumping around. Most players lose more time re-scanning ground they have already covered than they do on any genuinely hidden object. Speed matters for scores and challenges, but the scene costs the same single Energy whether you rush it or not, so accuracy is worth more than haste.
Keep the Energy bar moving
Regeneration stops at ten, so the bar should rarely be full. Spend a scene or two before bed and before any long stretch away from the game. If you know an unlimited energy token is coming from a club quest or an event, spend down further beforehand, since the token makes your stored Energy irrelevant for its duration. Managing this one number is the difference between playing daily and waiting daily.
Be picky with Greens
Greens are the premium currency, and the game offers plenty of places to spend them, most of which return nothing lasting. Refilling Energy with Greens is the classic waste: the bar refills on its own for free, and you are paying to skip a wait you could have avoided by not capping out. Decoration is a want rather than a need. If you spend Greens at all, spend them on things that unblock progress you cannot reach otherwise.
Cycle your tickets rather than hoarding
Tickets and event items are earned to be used, and holding them for a better moment usually means holding them past the event that would have paid for them. Events run on windows, and an unspent ticket at the end of one is worth nothing. When you receive them, look at what is currently running and spend accordingly.
Use Iris's Eyes when the scenes get stale
Iris's Eyes is the silhouette-matching variant of the hidden object scene, and beyond being a change of pace it suits different eyes: some players are consistently faster at silhouettes than at word lists. If your scene times have plateaued, switching modes on a scene you know well is a cheap way to find out whether you are quicker at one than the other.
Build the island steadily
The island building side accumulates prestige rather than driving the story, which makes it easy to either ignore or over-invest in. The healthy middle is to place what you can afford from coins earned in scenes and leave it there. Coins come from scenes and the Daily Puzzle, so the building progresses at the pace your Energy allows regardless of how much attention you give it.
Keep the free Energy coming
Every tip above is limited by the same resource, and the sources that beat regeneration are the club tokens, the events and the gift links. This page lists every verified Pearl's Peril link we find, sorted newest first, so you can see what is claimable without watching a feed.
Every free Energy source