Halloween 2021

I played yesterday (October 30th), and Cube warned me to have enough candy for Halloween, or else I’ll be getting pranked.

Even though the shop only sells one piece of candy a day, I decided to test my luck during the Halloween festivities tonight. The event works differently in New Leaf than it does in other games, at least when it comes to indoor villagers. We have to wear the specific mask that will scare each villager. If we choose correctly, they will give us candy.

I had notes for some of my villagers thanks to a previous blog entry. However, I didn’t have any notes for Boots, and I guessed wrong. That meant if I wanted candy from him, I had to play a game for it. Unfortunately, he chose the made-ya-look game. You have to guess which direction the villager will turn their head…and I guessed wrong.

He punished me, although I didn’t notice the problem immediately because my clothes didn’t change. But I did have some old flooring in my pockets that wasn’t there before. I later figured it out when I went to dig up a fossil: My shovel was gone! My silver shovel got turned into old flooring!

For some reason, I was thinking tools were safe…and the gold ones are safe. But I had been using the silver shovel, so I’ll have to check out the museum gift shop to replace it. Oops.

When I visited Cube, I also guessed his fear wrong…

But fortunately, he wanted to play charades. That mini-game is pretty easy to win, since it’s not just random chance.

Outside, the villagers dressed up as Jack are pretty easy to avoid (unlike on GameCube). But they do still try to chase you if you get too close to them.

Overall, the event went pretty well. I got some lollipops from villagers and gave them to Jack for creepy furniture.

I played long enough to acquire four of the creepy items: Jack gave me two creepy statues, a creepy coffin, and a creepy bat stone. I sold them all for a total of…2,600 bells? Wait, that’s it? This is not a profitable event in New Leaf. It wasn’t worth continuing, especially since I’ve already collected all the items in the past.

According to Luna, my recent dream visitors include Jake from Florida and Cindie from Arrows. Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Halloween! 🎃