Increasing your Chances of Good Luck Each Day
You can increase your chance to have this sort of good luck by:- Utilizing Feng Shui, placing green items to the south.
- Displaying plenty of lucky items* in your house:
- Don't wear the King Tut Mask, which grants you automatic bad luck.
- Do obtain and wear the Tingle Hood and Celebration Hat, which both act, equally and regardless of what Katrina suggests, as your daily lucky item.
* After she has set up a permanent shop in your town, both these items are somewhat rarely obtainable from Katrina for 10,000 bells (so always have at least that amount on you when you visit!), when you have very high luck (Feng Shui, Item Luck Fortune, etc).
She will say something like "Do you want a special charm for 10,000 bells?" after you get your reading, so be careful you don't mindlessly spam B too quickly. You will randomly receive either the Tingle Hood or Celebration Hat.
Myth Concerning Lucky Items
According to Liquefy, avid and dedicated Animal Crossing follower, researcher and contributor on GameFAQs:
"Contrary to popular belief, Lucky items, by themselves, do not increase Feng Shui. Lucky items behave like all other items: if they are designated as yellow, green, or red, they can increase Feng Shui if properly placed in Feng Shui space.
Just as in prior versions, wearing a Four-Leaf Clover has no effect on in-game
luck or any other gameplay."
What lucky items will do, is greatly increase your HHA points.
What Time Does the Day Reset?
12 AM:- Your luck for the day is determined.
6 AM:
- Flowers breed (hybrid chance).
- Money and ore rocks respawn.
- Buried items respawn.
- Items in trees respawn.
- Special event visitors leave.
You may have noticed that with this system, if you have poor or average luck one day (you're getting much less money from trees, rocks etc), you could hold out shaking trees / breaking rocks / digging up items until after midnight (when your luck/fortune dice is rerolled) to see if you get a money/item fortune this next day.
What does this mean? It means there's a chance you can earn twice as much money, two days in a row if you wait for a Good Money Luck roll after midnight.
| Bells per Iteration | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total |
| Bad Money Luck | 100 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 500 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 8200 |
| Neutral | 100 | 200 | 300 | 500 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 16100 |
| Good Money Luck | 200 | 300 | 500 | 1000 | 2000 | 4000 | 8000 | 16000 | 32000 |
Part of the fun is figuring out how you can increase your income, whether it is worth the change in your daily routine, and playing with the mechanics, so I'll lay this subject rest.
Different Types of Fortunes / Luck
Every day, at 12 am in your game, a dice is essentially tossed, and you have a chance of inheriting the following fortunes:
| Luck Type | Good Luck | Bad Luck |
| Wealth | Trees drop 200 instead of 100 bells. | Trees drop fewer than 100 bells. |
| Money Rock drops 200, 300, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, and 16000 bells. | Money Rock drops 100, 100, 200, 300, 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 bells. | |
| Villagers give you more money for items they request from your inventory. | Villagers give you less money for money they request from your inventory. | |
| Friendship | Friendship with same-sex villagers increase more quickly per positive interaction. | Friendship with same-sex villagers increase more slowly per positive interaction. |
| Special conversations with same-sex villagers are more likely. | Special conversations with same-sex villagers are less likely. | |
| Romance | It's easier to increase friendship with opposite-sex villagers. | It's harder to increase friendship with opposite-sex villagers. |
| Special conversations with opposite-sex villagers are more likely. | Special conversations with opposite-sex villagers are less likely. | |
| Item | If Saharah is in town, chance to receive her exclusive decor is increased. | If Saharah is in town, chance to receive her exclusive decor is decreased. |
| Chance-based events yield better results (increased frequency for Easter, Fireworks Fest, Snowmen rolling; increased quality for playcoin fortune cookies). | Chance-based events yield poorer results (decrease frequency for Easter, Fireworks Fest, Snowmen rolling; decreased quality for playcoin fortune cookies). | |
| Seashells respawn more frequently. | Seashells respawn less frequently. | |
| Villagers more likely to offer something for sale. | Villagers less likely to offer something for sale. | |
| More likely to get rare items in Leif's weeding mini-game. | Sitting in a chair will occasionally produce a sound... | |
| Health | Bees move more slowly, so it is easier to avoid being stung. | Bees move more quickly, so it is tougher to avoid being stung. |
| Mosquitos less likely to appear/sting. | You will often trip and fall while running. | |
| Jellyfish less likely to appear/sting. | Jellyfish more likely to appear and sting. |
How Do You Determine Your Luck / Fortune?
Good Luck / Good Fortune
"I see good fortune upon items"
"I see good fortune upon friendship"
"I see good fortune upon love"
"I see good fortune upon wealth"
"I see good fortune upon health"
Bad Luck / Bad Fortune
"I see disasters and broken hearts"
"I see disaster upon your health"
"I see disaster upon your items"
"I see disaster upon relationships"
"I see disaster upon wealth"
What Does the Lucky Item Do?
After getting your fortune told, Katrina will tell you what type of clothes you will need to wear as your Lucky Item. This lucky item can specify any of the following:
- Clothes intended for a particular gender (e.g. men's, women's, unisex)
- Fashion pattern (e.g. argyle, plaid, fruit-print, animal-print, dotted, h-striped, v-striped)
- Subset of clothing (e.g. hat, cap, sunglasses, glasses, tee, tank, long-sleeved, shorts, boots)
If you were told a good fortune, the lucky item activates the good luck until midnight. Without wearing this lucky item, your luck will be determined solely by your feng shui.
If you were told a bad fortune, the lucky item negates the bad luck (which unfortunately activates at midnight, when your luck is determined) until midnight. Without wearing this lucky item, you will have whatever poor fortune Katrina read in addition to whatever positive feng shui you may have.
