On the island you can take part in tours run by Leilani at the front desk. Tours can be used to earn medals which can be used to buy special furniture and clothes from Grams (including the wet suit needed for deep sea diving).

Grams’ selection changes daily so you won’t always be able to buy the wet suit. The tours you can play change daily too and, as you keep winning, more difficult tours will become available.

During tours you can only keep items that are not part of the tour’s objective. So that means on a fruit gathering your you won’t be able to keep any of the fruits you pick up, but you’ll get to keep any bugs and fish you catch.

Exempt from this rule are the flower-gathering tours, where you can keep any flowers still in your pockets!

Bug-Catching¶

In these tours, you must catch insects with your net. Some tours ask you to catch certain types of insects, so be sure to identify what your target is before you go all bug-catching crazy!

In most tours, you can afford to just run around trying to net (literally) as many bugs as possible; there’s no time for subtlety here!

Just watch out that certain bugs, such as beetles and walking sticks will instantly flee if you run (or even walk at normal pace), so remember to creep sloooooowly (hold the A button) for these.

Fishing¶

Here you have to catch fish with your fishing rod. Like bug-catching, you can be asked to catch any fish or just a specific type of fish. Again be careful and ensure that you have your eyes on the right target!

Unlike bug-catching, you can’t play messy here as good timing is needed to land each and every catch. Relaxation is key to winning, although that’s easier said than done with the time counting down….

Our general tip is to close your eyes and listen for the sound of fish biting–you’ll react to this much quicker than by sight. This is especially important for catching rare fish, such as tuna or sharks.

Deep Sea Catching¶

These tours task you with catching deep sea creatures with your wet suit. As with previous tours, you may be asked to catch any creature or a specific type, so remember to pay attention or risk looking silly.

Frankly, we’d advise you to avoid these tours like the plague because diving is so slooooow and painful. There’s really no reason to do them, unless you genuinely enjoy diving, as the other tours are much easier and quicker (and kinder to your digits).

For a chance of success, listen out for bubbles as this means a deep sea creature is nearby. Once you spot a creature, check your surroundings before giving chase.

If the creature is near the beach or edge of the map, navigate around the creature as they’ll flee in the direction you’re moving, which can cause them go out of reach if you’re not careful.

While closing in, press Y to dive as soon as you’re on top of the creature’s shadow; for faster creatures, you will need to continue swimming while underwater to catch them–don’t stop hammering the buttons!

Hide and Seek¶

Four villagers from the island will hide behind the buildings and trees on the island; find them as fast as you can!

There’s a trick to make this game easier–stop moving and press Up on the D-pad to pan the camera up and any buildings or trees near the bottom of the screen will disappear from view, allowing you to see through them.

Otherwise, if you’re running behind things and get stuck, there’s probably a hidden villager in the way.

Gardening¶

You have to gather flowers form the island and plant them in the flower bed next to Tortimer; in total you must plant 25 flowers.

It helps if you count how many flowers you grab as you run (bearing in mind you can hold onto 16 items at once), to minimise the time you spend checking how many you’ve got. So you can go and grab 16 flowers first, then grab the last 9 afterwards.

Also, when planting flowers, you don’t need to physically move all the time–if you lay down more than one flower in the same spot, your character will place them in the next available adjacent or diagonal space (so you can plop up to 9 flowers without moving).

You may also find it quicker to drop flowers by using the stylus to drag and drop them on the space “below” your character on the bottom screen.

Item Matching¶

Ready to test your memory? Here you must use your shovel to dig up a buried item and then dig up the exact same item elsewhere.

If you don’t find a matching item, you will automatically bury the item you have dug up. Keep digging until you’ve matched all the items.

Hammer¶

You have to whallop the remote-controlled Mr. Resetti with your toy hammer as many times as you can before time runs out.

Try to anticipate the machine’s movements, so you’re not just hammering empty space, although this becomes tricky as more obstacles are added, making the machine’s movements more erratic.

If you can run ahead of Resetti, you can land a good number of hits easily.

Hammer Tour Video¶

Labyrinth of Fruits¶

Tortimer will ask you to look for a specific number of a fruit, or various fruits. Navigate the hedge maze in search of these fruits. Once you’ve got the correct amount of fruit/fruits, speak to Tortimer in the middle.

Like the item-matching, this game is a test of memory, as the layout of the maze and the placement of the fruits changes each time you play.

Ore Hunting¶

Use your shovel to break the rocks on the island to find as many ore as you can. Be careful because some rocks are unbreakable and do not give out ore.

To make things more exciting, each time there will be 4 of a certain ore that give 3 points each–Tortimer will tell you which ore to look for. Later, Tortimer will add in one or two mystery ore that awards 10 points each.

Once you’ve scoured most of the island, you should be able to figure out the mystery ore’s identity because you’ll only have found one or two of them.

Fossil Hunting¶

There are two houses on the island, the left one has fossils while the right one is empty. Check the left one and make a note of the fossils and their locations in the house.

Head back outside and dig up the fossils on the island. When you find a fossil which matches one from the left house, put it in the right house in the correct position.

Balloon Popping¶

In these tours you have to pop balloons floating over the island using the slingshot–rabbit balloons are worth more points. The balloons appear in waves and move in the direction of the wind.

As time passes, the direction and speed of the wind may change, so be prepared to change locations. Later on, you’ll have to navigate trees and pitfall traps; try not to run behind trees as you may fall foul to a hidden pitfall trap.

Scavenger Hunting¶

You will be given a list of furniture in your inventory; you need to search the houses on the island for these pieces of furniture. Speak to Tortimer when you’ve found everything on the list.

Initially, you may have trouble distinguishing the very similar furnitures–in this scenario, just grab everything suspicious in the house and check them outside, then toss all the furniture that don’t match onto the floor and press on.