While playing Animal Crossing for hours on end, I noticed a pattern in the way balloon presents appear over your town.
The first time you see a balloon present, make a note of the time. In particular, you need to pay attention to the final figure of the minute: ie: 09:57; 12:24.
Of course you should try to shoot your balloon down if you can (especially if you are trying to catch a Golden Slingshot!). Once your balloon has been shot down or disappeared from view, you should enter a house. This seems to reset the balloon script. After this, another balloon will appear above your town exactly ten minutes after it first appeared. So if your first balloon arrived at 12:44, go near the top of your town at 12:54 to see a new balloon arrive.
In my town, the balloons always seem to arrive at xx:x4 so I'm always near the town gates a minute or so before this to see if a balloon will arrive ;) I'm not entirely sure if this same time applies to all games or just to my own though!
The most times I have had a balloon consecutively is 8. I did miss one instance and thought the script had somehow stopped (so no more balloons would arrive) but sure enough one arrived at the next xx:x4 slot for me to shoot down.
One final thing I've noticed in my own ACWW town is that balloons don't start appearing until I've been playing for a while (at least ten minutes or so). I have never had a balloon within the first 10 minutes of playing, though I cannot confirm this for certain in comparison to ACWW towns in general.
Anyway, I hope this will help you get more balloons for your town! Let us know about your own observations of balloon patterns by leaving your comments below.
Image credit: Balloon by Piston9 via Flickr Creative Commons
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