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A trick to increase your chances of getting a good/rare Nook Miles island!

Can this even be qualified as a "trick"? Like you can try it but it strikes me as one of those "Hold B to increase the catch rate in Pokemon" things (which is debunked). Something that may or may not have a real effect but will probably require either looking into the game's code or getting a response from the developer to know if it's legit or not. I'm very skeptical of this but I guess it's harmless.
 
Oh thank you I'm going to try this tonight! On my old town I was able to get 2 hybrid flower islands but on my new town I keep getting the same 3 basic islands with same fruit and flowers as my island. I'm pretty sure I wore the dal tee a couple times on my old town though and had no idea it might have been effecting my odds.

Tonight I will clap and wear the dal tee. I wonder if the odds stack!
 
did about 15 island visits with this trick, got a trash island and a money island. does not appear to work for me! its fun though

Edit: did not wear any DAL merch, will try that later
 
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Okay so this is weird.

I tried this just now and got a big fish island.

My boyfriend tried this twice in a row, and got a money rock island, then a big fish island with hybrids on it :eek:

This seems to work?! It seems like a massive fluke but we haven't done any more tours yet and we've had 100% success on the three trips we have taken :ROFLMAO: he's gonna try this every time now

Update: he's just tried it again and got a foreign fruit island... This can't be a coincidence surely? We've never had this many rare islands in a row, ever!
 
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rezberri said:
thanks for being mean!! <3

i specifically meant i dont believe in what op's saying works, but i do believe in the DAL merch one. it just makes more sense to me, at this point i dont rly care about what actually does what lol!


i dont think i was being sarcastic??? and many people are struggling to find bamboo island and i dont think one villager is more rare than the others. i was literally just sharing the facts of my situation. u said ur finding was datamined, i said my finding was datamined, so i guess i can also say santa clause was datamined because do we really know if what we're saying is true without us actually doing it??? im just chillin doing what i want to do.
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I'm not sure if we're allowed to share links to other sites, but I have a source for the datamined info if you would like to see it. The chance is 10% vs 9% for the other common islands, but hey, it's still technically most common :p And yeah that's what I meant, I think all villagers have the same chance of appearing so finding Audie isn't really any proof to say this method works lol.
 
I wore the DAL sleep mask and slippers and got rainy islands for both tickets, and sherb on the second one! Idk about clapping but i’ll wear DAL gear from now on
Edit: tried again with the clapping and got rainy money rock island
 
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I think to really prove these theories out, you need:

1. A really large sample size done by 1 person doing the trick - 200 or so visits, and
2. A 'control' group - someone else who goes 200 visits, and does not do the trick.

Compare results, and see if it actually works. Otherwise, It might as well sound like mashing B button to catch Pokemon.
 
sdw4527 said:
I'm not sure if we're allowed to share links to other sites, but I have a source for the datamined info if you would like to see it. The chance is 10% vs 9% for the other common islands, but hey, it's still technically most common :p And yeah that's what I meant, I think all villagers have the same chance of appearing so finding Audie isn't really any proof to say this method works lol.
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Could I have the source please? 😊
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Bugs said:
Okay so this is weird.

I tried this just now and got a big fish island.

My boyfriend tried this twice in a row, and got a money rock island, then a big fish island with hybrids on it :eek:

This seems to work?! It seems like a massive fluke but we haven't done any more tours yet and we've had 100% success on the three trips we have taken :ROFLMAO: he's gonna try this every time now

Update: he's just tried it again and got a foreign fruit island... This can't be a coincidence surely? We've never had this many rare islands in a row, ever!
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Thanks for that feedback! 😊
 
Haha I've never gotten the tarantula island before, but I just got it! Coincidence? Maybe... I wore the DAL shirt, DAL slippers, and did the applause.
 
Pecora said:
I think making several visits in row/in a day increases your chance of finding a rare island in general - that doesn´t have anything to do with applauding.

And it would be a weird thing to program, because you need to create a second pattern that only works in very certain cases.

Yesterday I travelled to three island - a tarantula one, one with money stones and one with hybrids... I am pretty sure if I try hard enough I'll could connect all that to something I did, like planting two appletrees diagonally, watering 13 flowers in a row or having my shovel break seconds bevore the departure. So I bet that this is just a hoax and that people are seeing things because the want to.
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Do you make more money with Tarantula island or money island? Not counting selling it to Flick.
 
I do remember that I wasn't doing or wearing anything special, and I wasn't even trying to find it, and I landed myself on tarantula island. It was a nice and scary surprise. But hey, that's just luck
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thelonewanderer said:
Do you make more money with Tarantula island or money island? Not counting selling it to Flick.
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you make more with tarantula island. I remember I read about the exact max profit from each island and tarantula won if you fill your pockets (with the biggest size of pocket)
 
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