The 2025 May Day maze in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the cliffs layout: look for two fruits diagonally to the left of the entrance. Follow the route below to reach Rover, crafting a ladder along the way. The nine Bell Vouchers are optional, but collecting all of them requires saving fruit for the rocks on the outer island.
Confirm you have the 2025 maze layout
Animal Crossing World identifies the cliffs layout as Maze #2 and associates it with odd years, including 2025. Its entrance has two fruits diagonally to the left and cliffs are visible around the maze. The flat layout has one fruit left of the entrance and is associated with even years, including 2026. If your maze has the cliffs and two diagonal fruits, use these directions. Animal Crossing World’s May Day maze guide includes maps and screenshots for checking orientation.
What to know before you start
Nintendo describes the May Day ticket as single-use. You arrive without tools and must find and craft what you need using resources on the tour island; the prize and any Bell Vouchers you collect are mailed after you return. Nintendo’s May Day announcement explains the ticket and reward mechanics.
- Keep track of your fruit: you will need it to break rocks and dig up trees, and extra fruit is useful for the optional voucher route.
- If you make a mistake and cannot continue, Rescue Service can reset the maze for 100 Nook Miles while you are still on the tour island.
Cliffs maze route to Rover
Follow the steps in order. The route uses the island’s gaps, cliffs and workbench; consult the guide’s map or screenshots if a direction is unclear in your view.
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- Pick up the shovel. Dig up the bush to the right, take the fruit behind it, eat it, and dig up the tree above.
- Collect two wood in the center area. Go to the far-right area, jump the water gap and take two fruit near a rock. Return to the far-left area, dig up the bush, jump the gap and collect one softwood. The ladder recipe there is optional.
- Eat one fruit and break the rock above. Cross the gap to the right and collect two softwood. Eat one fruit, dig up the tree on the left, then go down and cross the gap to collect two fruit.
- Return to the far-right side. Eat one fruit to break the rock below, collect and eat the fruit behind it, then dig up the next tree on the left. Collect two hardwood and cross the water gap upward.
- Eat one fruit and dig up the tree above. Collect one softwood across the gap to the left, one fruit at the top right, and two wood behind the hedge rows.
- Return to the far-left side where the ladder recipe was. Head north across the gap toward the workbench. Eat one fruit to break the rock above and collect two hardwood.
- At the workbench, craft a ladder using four wood, four softwood and four hardwood. If you are short, retrace the route and collect anything you missed.
- Cross downward over the gap, climb the cliff with the toolbox using the ladder, and pick up the worn axe. Climb down and return to the top-right area with three water gaps in a vertical row.
- Cross the middle gap to the left and use the worn axe on the tree. Climb the fruit-bearing cliff with the ladder, collect two fruit, then return to the upper-left workbench area.
- Above the workbench, eat two fruit and dig up the two trees blocking the way right. Go down, climb the cliff with the ladder, collect three fruit, and climb back down on the right.
- Go right, dig up the bush, hop the water gap, and loop around the right side to the bottom of the three water gaps. Hop north over them to the tree near Rover, eat one fruit, dig up the tree and climb the final cliff to meet him.
Optional: collect all nine Bell Vouchers
After meeting Rover, the optional voucher route takes you around the outer island ring. Save three fruit for its rocks.
- Dig up the bush to Rover’s left to reach four Bell Vouchers.
- Dig up the two bushes to the north to reach the outer ring. Follow the hedge perimeter to the upper-left, then continue down the left side.
- Break the three rocks with the three fruit retained from the route to collect the remaining five vouchers.
Animal Crossing World lists the full set of nine vouchers at 27,000 Bells in total; this is an in-game value. See the guide’s voucher map if you need help tracing the perimeter.
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If you get stuck or May Day is missing
Reset a maze you cannot finish
While still on the May Day island, open the NookPhone and use the Rescue Service app to reset the maze. The reset costs 100 Nook Miles.
Troubleshoot an event that does not appear
Nintendo’s official announcement advises restarting the game while connected to the internet and says changing the system clock will not trigger events. Nintendo Support also recommends checking the console’s date and time and installing the latest game software update when an expected event is missing. Nintendo Support: an event is not appearing. Event schedules and software requirements can change; Nintendo’s 2021 announcement is not a confirmation of the 2025 event schedule.
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