Prize Palooza
This bazaar stall doesn't sell products for gold. Rich, the proprietor, will exchange medals for randomly-drawn prizes, as long as you have tokens to spare. You'll find Rich in the northwest corner of the bazaar grounds after reaching Rank 5 (National).
A Prize Stall at the Bazaar: Rich need materials to construct his booth. He wants 50 medals, 5 Ultimate Lumber, and 5 Ultimate Stone. Depending on your item hoarding tendencies, this may be a quick project or a slow, multi-season slog.
- Medals: These small tokens appear while fishing, digging dirt piles with your hoe, or tilling the soil in your farm fields. You can also exchange 1 recyclable for 1 Medal at the Treasureland bazaar stall. Rich is looking for the low-level, plain Medals and not requesting Bronze, Silver, or Gold Medals. You'll need those later when it comes time to play with Rich.
- Ultimate Lumber: This material is crafted at the yellow windmill. For 5 Ultimate Lumber, you need to process 25 Study Lumber (5 sturdy = 1 ultimate). To make 25 Sturdy Lumber, you use the blue windmill to process 125 Lumber (5 lumber = 1 sturdy). To make Lumber, use the red windmill to process 625 Wood (5 wood = 1 lumber). Hope you like chop'n sticks!
- Ultimate Stone: This is the same process as the lumber. You need 625 Rock to make 125 Stone, 25 Sturdy Stone, and finally 5 Ultimate Stone.
To play Rich's random item game, bring him the number of medals needed per draw: 1 Gold Medal, 3 Silver Medals, or 5 Bronze Medals. The type of medal you use won't impact the random prize; it's simply a matter of needing to offer more medals per entry when they're lower quality.
Each draw will reward you with one prize depending on the rarity of the ball pulled from the box. There are five colors of bucket balls. White is the most common, followed by blue, red, gold, and prism.
- White Ball (4th place): Fodder, Pet Food, Chicken Feed, Horse Treat, Medal, Stone, Lumber, Black Tea Tin
- Blue Ball (3rd place): Woolen Yarn, Suffolk Yarn, Alpaca Yarn, Brown Alpaca Yarn, Study Lumber, Sturdy Stone, Black Necklace, Chartreuse Brooch, Gold Medal, Windscreen Kit
- Red Ball (2nd place): Diamond, Ultimate Stone, Ultimate Lumber, Sprinker, Matsutake Spores, Green Brooch, Purple Brooch, Red Brooch, Yellow Brooch, Red Necklace, Purple Necklace, Green Bracelet, Purple Bracelet
- Gold Ball (1st place): Pink Diamond, Power Berry, Adamantite
- Prism Ball (grand prize): Sky Jewel (one time only)
The quality of the prizes will be 2-Star (white ball), 3-Star (blue ball), 4-Star (red ball), or 5-Star (gold ball).
The Sky Jewel is one part of the three-part Travel Stone, an accessory that lets you teleport around to locations in Zephyr Town. The grand prize isn't as out of reach as it seems. If you have NOT won the grand prize after 50 draws, the next draw (#51) will automatically be the Sky Jewel.
More Medals Please!
As noted, you can acquire medals of various quality throughout Zephyr Town. Here are a few tips on obtaining more tokens for Prize Palooza:
- Fishing: Medals will appear as a sparkly alert bubble when there's a tug on your fishing line. You can cast your line and then wait for the sparkles, ignoring other types of alert notifications. Medals can be caught in any waterway.
- Crafting: You can attach the Purple Wonderstone from Felipe's Fineries (120,000 G) to the blue windmill to unlock medal upgrade recipes. While you can't outright craft a Medal using the windmills, you can upgrade them to a Bronze Medal (1 Medal + 1 Copper), Silver Medal (1 Bronze Medal + 1 Silver Ore), and Gold Medal (1 Silver Medal + 1 Gold).
- Digging: The dirt piles that appear around foraging areas and in the farm pasture can contain medals. During winter, there is a delicious pile that appears next to the blue windmill that contains a lot of medals; occasionally this dirt pile can appear during a summer hurricane. Another medal-enriched dirt pile can appear behind Miguel's Mercantile in the town plaza.
- Exploring: These aren't as common, but sometimes you can randomly find medals on the ground behind the villagers' house. A Silver Medal is behind Felix's house, and a Bronze Medal is behind Cafe Madeleine. A Gold Medal is in the sign outside your farm and the sign by the east bridge, but they don't reappear like the behind-house medals.
- Letters: Sometimes, after completing a request or seeing a random scene, a letter will arrive in the mail with medals attached as a thank-you gift. These will arrive as you reach achievement milestones, such as the Miracle Farmer title (10 Gold Medals) and Bouncer (3 Gold Medals). I've also received 3 Medals just for participating in the New New Year's Eve countdown on Winter 31.