Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can celebrate May Day from April 29 until May 7 in 2025.

To participate, head over to Resident Services and talk to Tom Nook. He’ll give you a May Day Ticket to go out on a limited-time May Day Island Tour. Take the ticket to the airport and you’ll fly to an island with a hedge maze.

How does the May Day maze tour work?

There will be tools, crafting material, and fruit hidden around the maze. To get through the maze, you’ll have to craft more tools and eat the fruit at the right times to get rid of obstacles like rocks and trees. To make the challenge a little trickier, you can’t bring anything with you. You can only use the stuff you find in the maze to complete it.

The maze is pretty straightforward if you’re careful, but still possible to mess up, so it’s worth keeping these important tips in mind:

You can break rocks and lift trees with your shovel once you’ve eaten a piece of fruit.There’s a crafting station mid-way through the maze. You’ll need enough materials to make tools like Ladders (which you can find in the maze).The small pits only allow you to jump directly across them, but there’s always a way to get to the other side of them.If you mess up or get stuck, use your NookPhone and use the Rescue Service app to get escorted back to the beginning and reset the island. (If you leave the island, you will not be able to come back!)

With some persistence, you should be able to make it through in just a few minutes. If you want to earn some extra money, make sure you grab the Bell Vouchers scattered around the maze. They’re worth 3,000 Bells each. (But if 3,000 Bells isn’t that appealing to you, feel free to skip them and head straight for the end.)

ACNH May Day maze solution

There are two possible mazes you can get and they swap out depending on the year. Once maze appears when the year is an even number, and one appears when the year is an odd number.

This is the 2025, 2027, 2029, and so forth maze solution, since this maze will show up during odd-numbered years.

ACNH May Day 2025 maze walkthrough

The maze walkthrough for 2025 is as follows, including how to find all bell vouchers:

Pick up the shovel in front of you. Use it to dig out the bush on the right and grab the fruit.Eat the fruit and use your new fruit power to help you dig out the tree that blocks the straight path.Pick up the two pieces of wood in front of you and you’ll be at a fork in the road.Backtrack to the fork in the road and head right. Jump over the hole and pick up the two fruit.Now head back to the fork and go left, digging up the bush in front of you, and picking up a piece of softwood and a ladder recipe.Break the rock above using a fruit-powered strike.Follow the path and head right to pick up two pieces of softwood.Use the last of your fruit to dig up the tree to the left of where the wood was.Head south first to pick up two more pieces of fruit.You’ll need more wood before you can make the ladder, so backtrack back to the fork in the road and head back right where you found the first two pieces of fruit.Use fruit power to break the rock.Pick up the fruit beyond the rock and eat it.Dig up the tree that blocks your path and pick up the two pieces of hardwood.Head north now, jumping up the hole, and dig up the tree.Grab the two pieces of wood (one in each row) and the fruit.From the bottom-most row, head left over the hole to grab the softwood. Backtrack back to the crafting table on the left side of the maze.Use fruit power to break the rock above the crafting table, grabbing the two pieces of hardwood, but don’t bother doing anything with these two trees. (You’ll come back for them later.)Craft the ladder at the crafting table.Head south from the crafting table and use the ladder to pick up the axe on top of the cliff.Backtrack back to the right side (again) where there’s the three horizontal rows. Go through the middle row and use the axe to cut down the tree and dig up the stump. Your axe will break, but don’t worry.Use the ladder to grab the two fruit up on the cliff.Head all the way back to the left side of the maze and go north to the two trees you ignored before. Use the fruit power to dig up these two trees.Use your ladder to climb up the nearby cliff to grab the three fruit. Climb down the cliff on the right side and dig up the bush.Run through the bottom-most row so you can loop around the hedge and head north. Dig up the last remaining tree with fruit power.Use the ladder to chat with Rover, completing the maze — but wait, there’s more.Descend the cliff with your ladder on the left side to grab four Bell Vouchers.Keep heading left along the edge of the island to see a rock with two fruit behind it. Use a fruit to break the rock and claim the fruit.Walk along the beach heading south, wrapping around to near the start of the maze. Use your last three fruit to break these three rocks and grab five more Bell Vouchers.Dig up the bushes on the right and talk to Wilbur to head home once you’re done.

What rewards do I get for finishing the May Day maze?

At the very end of the maze, Rover — a cat character who has made appearances in previous Animal Crossing games — will be waiting for you. He’ll give you Rover’s Briefcase, a furnishing item covered in travel stickers. If you’ve completed the event in previous years, you’ll get Rover’s Photo instead. The reward gets mailed to you once you head back to your island.

The ticket and tour is only redeemable once your get your loot, and that’s all there is to do. Even if there’s only one thing to do for this event, it’s nice to see a familiar face. We don’t know what this means for Rover, or if he’ll return in a future event.

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