Breeding is a mini-game that is unlocked during normal gameplay. It can be found on the right side of the Refuge with Annabelle. Breeding is done via tic-tac-toe and coin flips.

The game features 8 types of frogs, and then 8 color combinations of bodies and legs for each frog type. This means there are 64 different combinations of each frog type, for 512 total frogs. Of these, only 6 color types can be found in the wild. Cookie and Blush are "rare" colors and can ONLY be found via breeding.

To breed Cookie, you need to combine Peach (aka orange) and Banana (aka yellow) to form Cookie (aka brown). To breed Blush, you need to combine Kiwi (aka green) and Pink (aka pink) to form Blush (aka red).

Breeding costs money. The rarer the frog type, the more it will cost, from 3 for a Victulus all the way up to 55 for a Zarafa (x2, since you're breeding from 2 parent frogs).

You always want to filter your parents, to give yourself the best odds of making the child frog you want. You also always want to tame frogs... you can only use tamed frogs in your filtering!

When you have 3 tamed frogs of the same type + same body color, you can then filter for that frog. For common frog types/colors, this should be pretty normal and natural, but it's REALLY important to know for the rare colors.

The mini-game itself is your basic tic-tac-toe game, to form lines of 3 in a row of the same frog type or color. You will always go first, and the computer will randomly pick a tile and type/color. You alternative until all 9 spaces are filled or it can end early when no more tic-tac-toes can be made.

For the tic-tac-toe mini-game, when you form 3 in a row of a type or color, that will get locked into your child frog. The traits not locked in will be randomly picked from the parent options. This means that if you have 2 Doblex parents you can ONLY get a Doblex child... and therefore you do not need to make a tic-tac-toe for Doblex. This also means that you want as few colors as possible in the RNG pool. As such, you almost always pick body-legs of a parent to be the same.

When you get 3 in a row of a color, it will always lock in the body first and legs second. In my hundreds and hundreds of tic-tac-toe games, I was always able to get 3 in a row for a body type... so you can, 100% of the time, select the frog type + body type you want. Sometimes you'll be able to also make a 2nd 3 in a row to lock in your leg type and fully create the frog you want... other times, it'll be up to a coin flip on the leg color.

When this finishes, you may also then have a chance to mutate your child frog into a rare frog. This is optional, so if you already have the frog you want, you do not need to Combine. You also must have a complementary color available to even attempt it (aka if you have an orange body, you must have yellow as another of your parent colors).

Ok. So you know the basics of breeding, and now you want to go for all 512 frogs. Nice! First things you need to know: it will take you about 30 minutes per frog type to breed all the rare frogs, if you are being optimal (about 4 hours of just breeding, in total). It will also cost you around 20,000 gold to breed all rare frogs (Zarafa are expensive!!).

The hard part of breeding rare frogs is the start. It's very RNG heavy. The focus should be on getting 3 frogs tamed with the same rare body, because then you can filter for that rare color and it becomes MUCH easier.

Here is the example flow that I used in order to breed frogs. Let's use Doblex brown as our example. We want to use Doblex orange orange + Doblex yellow yellow as our parent frogs. At the start, it doesn't matter what colors we use within the tic-tac-toe game, since we need all brown frogs still. Get through the mini-game as quickly as you can, and Combine both body and legs... you may get a rare frog, you may not.

If you get a rare frog, TAME IT!! Then, we want to specifically NOT target that frog, so that we don't breed it again. It's hard to breed a rare frog, so once we have one (or more) we want to focus our targets towards the ones we are still missing. Let's assume we bred a Doblex orange brown. We still need our 3 brown body frogs + yellow brown. We want to make a yellow tic-tac-toe now, so that we will either breed a useless common or a brown body frog or yellow brown frog. If the body is already yellow, it can only be yellow or brown.

This is the overall process and logic that we'll use, until we get our 3 brown body frogs. Once we have Doblex brown brown, we want to Combine 1 part at a time, because if we get a rare part, we don't want the other part to also be brown. The other example is when we have Doblex brown yellow and then still need Doblex brown orange... our first tic-tac-toe color doesn't matter, but our second one should be orange. This is easiest to do when we target orange for our first color as well (much, much easier to make 2 tic-tac-toe of the same color than different colors). Once we have a Doblex orange orange base, we just Combine until we get that good coin flip RNG and make our frog.

Ok! Now we have our 3 Doblex brown bodies, we can change our parent type to Doblex brown brown + a Doblex double color we don't already have mixed with brown yet. This should be 5 more colors, although only 4 of which we can do to start (the 5th will be red, which we still need to separately unlock after we finish all our brown frogs).

More example time: let's combine our Doblex brown brown parent with a Doblex blue blue (Aqua) parent. Our goal for all of our child frogs at this stage will be to make 2 tic-tac-toes with 2 different colors, which will get us exactly the frog we want and not rely on RNG. Otherwise, we want to leave the 2nd one blank, and hope RNG blesses us. So you'll want to create a tic-tac-toe of brown, and then hope you can make a 2nd one of blue, to create your Doblex brown blue frog... otherwise, keep repeating until you get it or RNG gets it for you with a brown body. Then reverse it and make blue your first tic-tac-toe and try to get brown for your second (or pray for the RNG).

Rinse and repeat this with each set of colors. Then repeat all of this with red. Then repeat all of that for 7 more frog types... and voila! You have 512 frogs and a pretty rare achievement.

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-Tass