New Horizons. Currently doing an experiment where if you go on a nook miles tour while carrying specific tools and at specific times of the day it could influence the type of island you get. For example, carrying the axe into the airport can bring you to either to sister fruit or bamboo islands.
A few days ago I ran this test on 2 tours, one in the morning at 9:30 A.M. and the other at 7 P.M. with the morning tour carrying the shovel and the night tour carrying the net. The morning tour brought me to the bell island and the night tour brought me to the tarantula island, which are the exact islands I predicted each tool would get me. I may have just gotten extremely lucky with both tours so I have come to 4 conclusions:
1: I was extremely lucky both times and the tools had no real influence on the island you’re brought to.
2: My theory is correct and the tool you are carrying does in fact influence what island you’re brought to.
3: The tool you’re carrying does influence the island you go to technically but its not specific and just narrows the RNG to a few select islands, like carrying the axe could bring you to either the sister fruit or bamboo islands, but you can’t tell which.
and 4, which is the conclusion I’ve drawn so far: The tool you’re carrying does influence the island you go to AND its always the rarest and most lucrative one you can draw for that tool (like getting the tarantula/scorpion island for carrying the net) but it only works one day out of the week.