Jingle Comes to Town

On December 9th, I received a goodbye letter from Amelia. Her replacement was Gwen, a rude, snooty penguin who I already have in my ACCF town.

Gracie was in town, so I washed her car and earned myself a nice new cow print shirt.

I played again tonight (Christmas Eve), and I found a goodbye letter in the mail. Unfortunately, it was from Cookie, not Gwen. Her replacement was Pippy, and she’s nice.

Tonight is the night that Jingle comes to town (not to be confused with Toy Day). The Christmas Eve event doesn’t even seem to have an official name, at least not in-game. It’s not even shown on the calendar you’ll find in a journal.

Regardless, your job is to find Jingle the black-nosed reindeer to receive a gift.

But unfortunately, you have to find him five times before you can receive a gift. And that doesn’t mean talking to him five times in a row; that won’t work, and he gets annoyed if you try it.

You have to leave the area so that he can respawn elsewhere in town, then find him again. On the 5th meeting, he will finally give you a gift. In my case, he gave me a Jingle clock.

From that point on, you can get another gift each time you find him…but only if he thinks you’re someone else. So you have to change your shirt each time to trick him. I did this and got four items from him (including one from wearing a pattern). Unlike in City Folk, each pattern won’t work as a successful disguise.

I ran out of shirts, so I was out of luck. But that’s okay, because I was tired of searching all over town for him by that point anyway. 😛

On the bright side, I’ll be able to sell those items for 12,240 bells apiece next time.

If you haven’t yet seen my video showing 26 features from this game that never returned, here it is! Even though I made a similar video before, some of the previous featured returned in Version 2.0 of New Horizons. So this one is up-to-date, and it even includes a few things I missed the first time around. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Toy Day and Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄