Desert Island Escape

Desert Island Escape is a minigame in and the  update of. It involves escaping a desert island by obtaining four parts of a raft (three logs and a sail), without running out of food supplies, and in a limited number of days. How many days depends on difficulty. Monsters can fight the player.

In, the minigame can be unlocked for 4 US$Happy Tickets after unlocking the plaza (itself unlocked after two rounds of the board game). It requires scanning three amiibo cards to play. The player will receive US$Happy Points as a reward.

In, the minigame can be accessed through the furniture item. The characters used in the game can either be residents of the player's town or scanned with amiibo cards. The player will receive US$MEOW Coupons as a reward, as well as certain exclusive items based on certain achievements (see ).

Character abilities
There are a total of 18 different special powers in Desert Island Escape that vary depending on a villager's species, or in the case of special characters, are simply dependent on the individual character. Each group also has different stats that come into play on the island:
 * Desert Island Escape movement icon.png Movement: The number of times a character can travel to another space, usually one space each except for certain abilities.
 * Desert Island Escape hunger icon.png Hunger: The amount of rations a character consumes at the end of each day. If there is not enough food for all three characters at the end of the day, the game is failed.
 * Desert Island Escape vision icon.png Vision: How many spaces around the character fog will be cleared from the map.
 * Desert Island Escape favorite fruit icon.png Favorite fruit: When a villager lands on a space with this fruit, the possible amounts of food gained are higher. This does not apply to other villagers in the party.

Prizes
In, as the player achieves certain conditions, they will be mailed as prizes from Nintendo.

Music

 * Title
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 * Begin!
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 * Mission
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 * Island
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 * Island (Event)
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 * Island (Both Tracks)
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 * Camp
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 * Next Day
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 * One Material Left
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 * One Material Left (Event)
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 * One Material Left (Both Tracks)
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 * Island (Final Day)
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 * Island (Final Day, Event)
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 * Island (Final Day, Both Tracks)
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 * Success!
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 * Failure
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 * Results
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 * Next Day
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 * One Material Left
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 * One Material Left (Event)
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 * One Material Left (Both Tracks)
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 * Island (Final Day)
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 * Island (Final Day, Event)
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 * Island (Final Day, Both Tracks)
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 * Success!
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 * Failure
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 * Results
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 * Island (Final Day)
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 * Island (Final Day, Event)
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 * Island (Final Day, Both Tracks)
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 * Success!
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 * Failure
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 * Results
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 * Island (Final Day, Both Tracks)
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 * Success!
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 * Failure
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 * Results
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 * Failure
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 * Results
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 * Results
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