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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