FESTIVAL DESCRIPTIONS

Spring Festivals:

1st: New Years Day - When you first arrive back at the farm you do not
celebrate New Years Day. You are too busy unpacking. On New Years Day
you have the option of hanging out with the adults or the older children
(girls that you can get to love you and their friends that are boys.)
The adults are at the bar from 7 PM and the younger people are at the
square. I would recommend going to the party of the people who don’t
like you as much so therefore you can get them to like you more.

8th: The Goddess Festival - If a girl has at least a purple heart for
you, you can invite her to the Goddess Festival the day beforehand. If
you invite her she will like you more and after the festival you can
decide to stay with her a bit longer and go somewhere she wants. The
actual festival is just dancing. This festival is held at the square.

14th: The Thanksgiving Festival - Thankfully this festival is one that
allows you to play along like a normal day (meaning that I don’t like
it when it’s a festival and you can’t go inside someone's house to
talk to them or buy anything.) This festival is very over rated. You
give the girls sweets on this festival and they will like the sweets
more than they usually do.
NOTE: I think that some people have a glitch for this. In my version of
the game nothing special happens on The Thanksgiving festival however
one of the readers of my FAQ told me that the Thanksgiving festival
worked fine for them so therefore I probably just had a glitch.

18th: The Local Horse Race - You can’t make your horse participate in
this event in the first year because it isn’t old enough. However even
though your horse can’t participate there is still plenty that you can
actually do in this festival. Betting on horses is great. You can win
so many medals. The best thing you can get from the medals is the
power berry which sells for 1000 medals. There are also many other
great items that you can trade in for medals like the girls gifts
which are all about 40 medals each (remember that basically all the
villagers including guys love girls gifts.) This festival is held at
the square.

22nd: The Cooking Festival - In the cooking festival villagers bring
food to be rated in hope that it will be judged and thought of as the
tastiest dish. I have only ever seen Anne and Doug win this festival.
You can tell who will win the festival seconds before the winner is
announced because the winner always stands in the middle of the crowd
when the winner is about to be announced. In the first year you
probably will not have a kitchen (unless you use my fantastic cheat
mentioned in Chapter 7: Part A - Cheats And Tips Just For H.M.B.T.N)
so therefore the only thing you could possibly bring to be evaluated
is a spa boiled egg. I highly doubt that a spa boiled egg will ever
be good enough to win the festival. This festival is held at the square.

Summer Festivals:

1st: Opening Day - You compete in a swimming contest. If you win this
race you will be able to get a power berry. It is best to have at
least two power berries for this festival. You have to keep mashing
the X button and when your speech bubble face changes and looks more
tired you need to hold the triangle button. Without any power berries
it is possible to come in 3rd but with them you can be a lot better.
There are 5 other competitors in the swimming race. This festival is
held at the beach.

7th: The Chicken Festival - If your chicken loves you a lot then you
definitely should enter your chicken in the chicken festival. In the
chicken festival you can watch sumo chickens trying to scare the other
one out of the ring. Having your chicken love you is handy because if
it doesn’t love you much it won’t obey your order and it might end up
walking right out of the ring. The trick in the first chicken festival
is to press X just after the other chicken has jumped and clucked.
Remember not to press X when your chicken is at the edge of the ring
and facing it because it will walk forward and out of the ring. This
festival is held at the square.

12th: The Tomato Festival - All of the teams will beg you to join them.
Choose a team and the festival will start. The people in the team will
like you more because you chose them out of all of the other villagers.
In the tomato festival you have to throw tomatoes at the other teams but
try to make your team not all get hit by tomatoes because that will make
your team out. You do not get anything from winning except for bragging
rights but it is still a fun little festival. This festival is held at
the square.

20th: The Cow Festival - You can enter an adult cow that isn’t pregnant
into this festival. It will be judged. If your cow really loves you then
you have a chance of winning so enter. If your cow has the maximum amount
of hearts you will definitely win. Make sure you brush your cow, milk
it, and feed it every day and by the next year you will definitely have
an award winning cow. If your cow wins the contest it will be able to make
golden milk which sells for a lot more than the other milk. This festival
is at yodel ranch.

24th: The Fireworks Display - In the night on the fireworks festival you
can watch the fireworks with one of the girls. If a girl has at least a
purple heart for you she will watch the fireworks with you. She will like
you more for inviting her. After the fireworks she might take you out on a
date. If you don’t invite any of the girls the fireworks display will
suddenly start and you will not be alone on the jetty watching them.
In the second year you can get a date with Kai to go to the fireworks
display (see Kai’s section for details.)
This festival is at the beach.

Fall Festivals:

3rd: The Music Festival - I really do not like this festival. The day
beforehand Carter asks you to play in the festival. If you agree to
he will be very grateful and like you more. You have to arrive at
exactly the right time or you will be locked out and Carter will be
disappointed that you didn’t come. You get to sit down and hear a song.
They make Karen sing like an opera singer. In the end of the song you
hear a window crash and birds flying through the window. It is meant
to signify Karen's voice cracking the window. This festival is held in
the church.

9th: The Harvest Festival - In this festival every villager brings
something to put in a big dish for soup. You can bring one item to
throw in the dish. I like fishing in the pot because you can actually
catch things (only bones but still it's entertaining for a while
nevertheless and you get good things for May without it taking up
Harvest Moon time. What you bring will effect what people think of
the soup. If you put something like a chocolate cake or a poisonous
mushroom (MWA HA HAAAAAAAAA) in the stew people will find the taste
strange. If you put in something that would be good for a soup then
people will like the stew. This festival is at the square.

13th: Moon Viewing Day - On this night you can spend time with the girl
that likes you most and view the moon when it is at it’s biggest and
brightest. She will like you more for watching the moon with her.
The events for Moon Viewing Day are at the top of mothers hill.

21st: The Sheep Festival - This festival is basically exactly the
same as the cow festival but with sheep. You can not enter a pregnant
or shaved sheep into the festival. If your sheep loves you as much
as possible you will definitely win the festival. If your sheep wins,
your sheep will be able to give golden wool which sells for more than
normal wool.

Winter Festivals:

10th: The Dog Race - As long as your dog loves you and you have trained
a bit every day with the ball you will win this race. You can bet on
this race and win medals. The prizes from the dog festival are the same
as the ones from the horse festival. In this race you need to run and
your dog will (hopefully) follow you. The trick is to run about as fast
as the dog can a few centimeters/an inch or so in front of him. If your
dog doesn’t love you or you haven’t trained at all it will just ignore
you and not move or even move in the wrong direction. This festival
is held at the square.

14th: Winter Thanksgiving - I love this festival. The girls all give
you gifts if they like you. If you want chocolate from them then you
need them to have a blue heart. If they have a different coloured heart
they will give you something else. To receive all the treats stay
outside of your farm the whole day ( when you visit them they don’t
give you anything strangely enough but when they visit you they give
you things.) When you are married to Karen she will give you chocolate
on Winter thanksgiving with a red heart.

24th: The Star Night Festival - If a girl likes you enough the day
before the star night festival she will invite you to dinner with her
parents.

30th: New Years Party - At the top of mothers hill from 10 PM you will
be able to celebrate New Years Eve with a few of your neighbours.