Travel Frog/ 旅行青蛙/ 旅かえる - Guide Part 2

Frog with mouse friend. Sharing hand towel together. Cuteness overload..

For my previous blog, I have explained on the installation and step to step guidance on the basic of how to play this well-raved top. #1 game currently in apps store called Travel Frog! In this post, I will share with you guys the english translation version on how to play the game, what is the meaning of each button, what type of foods and items you can pack for your frog etc. There is already a chinese version of guide in apps store, but do not see any english version. Hopefully through this post, everyone is able to join the fun of this game and what's even fun is play together with your friends and see the different kinds of postcards together! 😄

First you will reach this page which is the outdoor garden/yard. Refer Fig.1 for the respective translation on the buttons. Most importantly, collect clover leaves in garden to use as currency to purchase foods and items for your frog. Sometimes you will get visitors/friends of frog such as snail, bee and turtle. I will explain more on visitors/friends later on. When you click on "Room", it will prompt you Fig. 2. Most importantly, tap on "Shop" to purchase foods and items for frog's next journey and then "Luggage Preparation" to fill up stuffs for your frog. It will then prompt you to Fig. 3. The backpack consists of 3 different boxes, i.e. Bento, Amulet/ Lucky Charm, Tools/Items. At here, tap on respective box and fill in the stuffs which you just purchased from "Shop". Tap on button below to confirm packing. Note that after confirmed, no adjustment can be done anymore. Your frog is ready to embark on his adventure by using the luggage which you just prepared for him! Remember, different combinations of stuffs in backpack will bring different kinds of postcards from your frog during his travel journey. So, if you invest in cheap food, there is a potential that no postcard delivered for you. Exception only on his first journey, which I have explained in previous post, where you spent only 10 clover leaves to buy grape scone and bring you back typical Nagoya postcard. After this, maybe is very low chance you will get good postcard if you spend less on him.

Fig.1: Outdoor Garden/ Yard.
Collect clover leaves for money to buy stuffs and fill up frog's backpack.

Fig.2: Indoor Room.
Tap on Shop and Luggage preparation to pack stuffs.

Fig.3: Backpack for frog

 The frog will embark on his journey without you knowing. However, you will get message box prompted that he has already on his adventure. And you can note that the frog's room window is already without light on. Don't be sad, he sure will come back home. I have read that the frog's journey can be from 1 day to maximum 4 days. However, after many days of waiting (which maybe is only a few hours passed, because you miss your frog's existence so much), you start to wonder why your frog has not come back home sweet home? So what can you do? Remember go to Fig. 4 to check if the table is empty or already with stuffs inside. If it is empty, then your frog will not come back home. But, rest assured, just put some stuffs (most important, at least one food in the Bento section) in the box and he will be back soon. In this table section, you can already start to prepare foods, amulets, and/or tools for your frog's next adventure. Sometimes during your working hours you are unable to online and check out Travel Frog frequently, hence your frog will directly take those stuffs from table and embark on his own journey already. So prepare everything before hand so he is always ready for adventure. The stuffs you have put on table will automatically transferred to it's backpack like Fig. 3. Unless you want him to stay in room so you can stalk him, then you may consider to leave the box empty. 😂 Take note on the highlighted red box means clear. DO NOT tap on this as all your items will be cleared away from table, everything will be gone! Just tap on "X" close button after done your table preparation will do. However, if you accidentally tap on the clear button, fret not, just tap on the respective box again and you may choose the items for your frog's adventure again. After that, just click on "X" to close the table window. Remember do not leave table empty will do.

Fig.4: Table Preparation (for next adventure and for frog's to come home)

 So now you already know how to purchase items and prepare backpack for your frog. Let me translate the following foods and tools for you. When you tap on "Shop", you will be prompted with the following foods and tools which you can buy for your frog using the amount of clover leaves stated there. Refer Fig. 5 for the foods translation and the postcard effect that you can get if you purchased that food for your frog. Refer Fig. 6 and Fig. 7 for the items/tools translation and where your frog will travel to get the desired postcard effect for you.

Fig.5: Foods/ Bento

Fig.6: Items/Tools 

Fig.7: Items/ Tools

As mentioned just now, you will have friend/visitor from time to time at the outdoor garden there. The friend may have snail, bee and turtle. If you feed them with food which you got from your frog inside food souvenir box, then they will reward you with many clover leaves and even lottery ticket (explained later). Simply tap on the friend, food souvenir box will open and choose one food to feed it. Different friend can have different types of reaction after consume your chosen food. May refer to Fig. 8 to 10 for the reactions.

Fig.8: Snail's Food Reaction

Fig.9: Bee's Food Reaction

Fig. 10: Turtle's Food Reaction

Remember everytime your frog gives you postcards or souvenirs, store them and it will automatically appear in the postcard diary album. Still remember inside the frog's room? Just tap on curtain and it will automatically link you to postcard diary album and rare souvenirs around Japan which brought back by your frog. You won't want to missed out your frog's photos right? When you get the postcard, your mailbox will have letter icon appeared and tap on it to view the postcard, tap on the right button (保存) to save the postcards. 

Here comes the lottery portion. Every time your frog goes out travel, he will bring back one lottery ticket for you. Additionally, friends/visitors of frog will give you lottery ticket sometime as well. When you accumulate 5 lottery tickets, you get a chance to test your luck in the lottery portion. Refer to Fig. 11 for lottery page. From here as an example, you have 2 lottery tickets on hands currently, once it hits 5 then you may test your luck in this lottery by taping on bottom left button will do. You will get one ball as a result. Here, there are a total of 5 different balls (4 colorful balls and 1 white ball ) which can be drawn out from lottery machine, refer Fig. 12. 

Fig.11: Lottery

Fig.12: Lottery ball types

Detailed explanation of different types of balls drawn from lottery as below. The analysis was done so far by those who have acquired them, however it still has more possibility which you can go and explore own. After all this game is fairly new and everything is still a mystery.

Yellow Ball (黃玉)：Get amulet which looks like train ticket. On top of the ticket can see east, west, south and north words in Japanese. From left to right, refer below:

East (ひがし)/ Yellow train ticket: Frog will go to eastern area for travel.

West (にし)/ Green train ticket: Frog will go to western area for travel.

South (みなみ)/ Red train ticket: Frog will go to southern area for travel.

North (きた)/ Blue train ticket: Frog will go to northern area for travel.

Red Ball (赤玉)：Get food/ bento for your frog. Put this in frog’s backpack and the postcards will have other travel companions! From left to right, refer below:

Red candy (いちごの金平糖）：Mouse

Lemon candy（レモンの金平糖）：Butterfly

Grape candy（ぶどうの金平糖）：Crab

Melon candy（メロンの金平糖）：Random according to luck

Green Ball（綠玉）：Mantou bun has similar effect with candy. Put this in frog’s backpack and the postcards will have other travel companions! From left to right, refer below:

Carrot mantou bun（にんじんぼうろ）：Travel to eastern area. Mouse has higher potential to appear

Pumpkin mantou bun（かぼちゃぼうろ）：Crab has higher potential to appear

Bean mantou bun（えだまめぼうろ）：Travel to central area. Butterfly has higher potential to appear

Milk mantou bun（ミルクぼうろ）：Random according to luck

Burdock mantou bun (ごぼうぼうろ）：Random according to luck

Blue Ball（青玉）：Get amulet/ lucky charm. Effect is increase the chance of frog to go to specific area for travelling.

Yellow amulet（黄色のお守り）：Potential to go to eastern area

White amulet（白色のお守り）：Potential to go to western area

Red amulet（赤色のお守り）：Potential to go to southern area.

Blue amulet（青色のお守り）：Potential to go to northen area.

Peach amulet（桃色のおまもり）：Random according to luck

White Ball（白玉）：Get nothing but only a lottery ticket. Once accumulate to five lottery tickets, will get a chance for lottery. 

Along the journey, frog will meet different kind of travel companions such as mouse, butterfly and crab. I haven't gotten much of this yet, but your chance will be doubled if you invest in good luggage preparation! There are many photos online like below, spoiler alert!

There are already some sharing online regarding the postcard's background location which your frog bring back to you. We can see that all postcards' locations spread around Japan! Really hope frog can travel even further like around the world, so can see even more beautiful landmarks around the globe! The fun thing on Travel Frog, for me is gathering postcards and anticipating on the place which my frog has been traveled to! 😁

That's all for the sharing on the Travel Frog guide. Enjoy the game and show off your postcards to your family and friends on this coming Chinese New Year! Now, everyday is a Frog day. 😁💗

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Travel Frog/ 旅行青蛙/ 旅かえる - Guide Part 1

Travel Frog is a new addictive game from Hit-Point developed from Japan. This game is fairly simple with user friendly interface. Not much time is needed to play this game. Let me explain more here. The game is to rear a frog kid and you will be acting like the mother or father of the cute little frog kid. What you need to do is helping your frog to pack his luggage and he will go to travel (without notifying you), but will bring back for you cute and unique postcards from places around Japan. Of course, in order to pack his luggage, you need to have tokens to buy stuffs such as foods, adventure items, amulets etc. How to get the tokens for your frog? You need to go to outdoor garden to collect clover leaves! There are many clover leaves at the outdoor garden, however once harvested, it takes few hours to refill up. The slow growth rate of the clover leaves makes it harder for you to earn tokens to pack good stuffs for your frog. Remember, if you pack good stuffs in the luggage, frog will reward you more rare items to be found in Japan and also prettier postcards! If you pack cheap stuffs, it might be don't have postcard at all! Yeah, is that realistic. 😔 I still remember the time I gave him cheap food, it does not bring me back postcard or good souvenirs, I felt so depressed! 😒 Got once I even obtained a very lonely postcard from him, I can't even see the face, is only the frog's hat which looks so far and small, and what's even worst, the frog is inside some underground tunnel or drainage system? I will let you all see the photo soon.

Additionally, your frog will go to travel to some unknown places for his adventures and it might take few hours to few days! If not mistaken, the maximum number of days he will be away is 4 days! Yeah, you will go inside Travel Frog apps every few hours and check him out, but still can't see any trace of him. That's what the feeling of parents missing the kids. Haha. 😂 At this time, I am always wondering where my little frog goes, is he doing good? Is he happy in traveling? Is it nice to play around? He able to meet any new friends in the journey? Why you not send postcard to me? I remember you and I miss you, but where are you?! Why disappear.. Haha. Yeah i know i am crazy right. So most of the time, I will "stalk" his bedroom doing nothing, and go out outdoor garden to collect clover leaves. But if my frog comes home, I will stalk him more and more, like he is eating dishes, writing diaries, reading books, eating dishes again, wood carving (cool!). Guess that's the only time I can see his face, because his postcard don't have his face inside. Yeah, my rebellious kid.. 😟 I will collect more clover leaves to pack good stuffs for your next adventure, I promised! 

That's the rough overview of what this Travel Frog game is about. Next, let's install the apps and play with me! See the travel guides below once your apps have been installed. Oh ya, the game is in Japanese, but there are many online travel guides be it chinese or english, so there is no reason to say no to this new game! Don't say Bojio, Let's go lahh~

Step by Step Guide Translation

• Search 旅かえるin apps store. Alternatively, like me I just go to apps store and click on top game. The game can be found as No.1. Just click it to download.
• Open the apps and you will be prompted with terms and conditions in Japanese words. Tap the following circled button to continue. It means agree with the terms and conditions of the game.

Credit to Gameskinny

• Tap on the frog and enter a name for your frog. Enter the name you prefer. Take note that the name can only has maximum up to five characters. Tap on OK after done.

Credit to 88razzi

• You will reach inside the frog's room. And you can see your frog busy packing luggage for his travel already. It will look something as below.

Credit to Gameskinny

• You will need to prepare 3 kinds of items for your frog, i.e. foods, amulets and tools. In order to buy the items, tap on the mail box icon on the lower right corner which will bring you to outdoor garden. Harvest all clovers for your frogs and your money inventory (no. of clover leaves) will add up. At this state, there are 2 four clover leaves which can be used as amulet. There are 18 regular clovers which are to be harvested as well to buy foods and items for adventure. Now, your money inventory as seen from top left side will add up to 19. Remember, regular leaves used to purchase foods and items for your frog and four clover leaves functioned as amulet during the journey.

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• Once done collecting clover leaves, you will be prompted to go shopping now in order to buy stuffs to send your frog for his first journey. Tap on the icon with two small shopping bags (on top of house icon) located at bottom right corner. Tap on a scone circled below, which is the only thing you can afford currently. Tap on はい and you have purchased completely. 

Credit to Gameskinny

• Pack the scone and four clover leaf into frog's luggage bag (blue page as below). Alternatively, you can tap on the したく located at bottom left corner (refer to arrow below). The 1st image to appear is the blue interface, when you swipe to next page, it will appear yellow interface. Remember, blue color means luggage, and yellow color means table. Frog will bring stuffs from luggage (blue page) and goes to adventure. When he goes to adventure, remember to put the table (yellow page) with food and/or items, so the frog will come back home! If you have not do this step, your frog will not come home and you will keep on wondering why. So remember to put at least one food on the table (yellow page) and frog will come home. After put the food, remember tap the close (x) button to exit will do. DO NOT tap on the button circled below, it means clear off the stuffs from your table!

Credit to Gameskinny. Blue ~ Luggage!

Credit to 88razzi

Credit to 17video.
  Yellow ~ Table! Remember click "x" once items being placed inside. DO NOT click the button as circled above. It means clear off items from table and all your bought items will be missing!

• Referring to the luggage (blue page), there are 3 boxes over there. The top left side おべんとう means Bento - lunch. Tap on this and tap scone which you just bought to add into the box. Then tap on the top right side おまもりmeans good luck charm or amulet. Tap on this and tap the four clover leaf that you just harvested. The last box at the bottom means travel gears or items. However, we do not have any at this stage. Lastly, just tap on かんりょうmeans finished. There you go, you have just done the 1st luggage packing for your frog!
• After done, you are not able to play the game. You will need to close the game and exit from Travel frog apps. After that, tap on the apps again to restart it.
• When you returned, the following message box will be prompted. It means that your frog is going on adventure currently and will return after some time with postcards and souvenirs. "Kero" means frog in Japanese. You will start to miss your frog already? Maybe? 

Credit to Gameskinny

• You will be given 500 regular clovers and one four clove leaf now. Your money inventory is going up and now you can do some shopping. Remember, purchase food and put on the table (yellow page) so your frog will not run away and not coming back!

You have already sent your frog for this first journey. Starting from this onwards, just wait for your frog to come back home. Remember to check the mail box daily to see if your frog has delivered any items to you. Remember to collect regular and four clover leaves amulet for your frog as well. Purchase high end stuffs and put on the table so your frog will take the items directly from the table to embark on his next journey when you are offline especially during your working time where you don't have the luxury to stay connected with your frog.

From time to time, there will be friends of the frog visiting the house, you can see snail, bee and tortoise. I have seen snail as below already, however yet to see bee and tortoise. When they visit you, remember to give them snacks. Tap on the snail and you will be prompted to the food souvenir box. Here stores the items that have been brought by your frog when ventured outside. You can choose the food to treat the friends who visit your house. Different kinds of foods will bring different kind of message from the visitor. I will further explain more on another post real soon! In return, the visitor will reward you with clover leaves!

Credit to Gameskinny

Oh ya, how to know when your frog is back? You can see below red message box prompted out when you launch the game, means your frog has come back home.

Credit to Gameskinny

On another upcoming post, I will share with you guys on the more detailed tips such as foods served for different kind of visitors, and foods and items translation guides to purchase for your frog's journey, fun tips etc. Last but not least, there is a lottery session to test your luck as well! By the way, my frog just sent me a postcard! It is not drainage system/dark tunnel at last, it is somewhere filled with greenaries! 

Travel Frog/ 旅行青蛙/ 旅かえる - Guide Part 2 completed. Link here!

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