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Animal Crossing: New Horizons FAQ

Happy Home Academy

Last updated: 3 April 2022

What is HHA and what do they do?

After you upgrade to a house, Happy Home Academy (HHA) will begin to evaluate your interior decoration skills every Sunday at 5 AM. Every room in your house will be assessed and you will be given a rank and a score by letter on Sunday. If you reach a certain amount of points, you will also receive a prize in the mail.

What are the ranks?

Rank Requirements by House Level:

House Level B Rank A Rank S Rank
Tent - - -
House upgrade 0 - 9,999 10,000 - 14,999 15,000+
House size upgrade 0 - 16,999 17,000 - 22,999 23,000+
Back Room Addition 0 - 24,999 25,000 - 34,999 35,000+
Left Room Addition 0 - 37,999 38,000 - 46,999 47,000+
Right Room Addition 0 - 49,999 50,000 - 59,999 60,000+
Second Floor Addition 0 - 63,999 64,000 - 74,999 75,000+
Basement Addition 0 - 79,999 80,000 - 89,999 90,000+

How is the rating determined?

  • You can find the base points, set, series, category, concept and color for all of the items in this spreadsheet.
  • Base points: The base HHA point for each items.
  • Basic Interior Design Bonus: You get bonus points for the number of furniture you have in each room. All of the points stack with the previous tier. i.e. if you have 20 pieces of furniture in a room, you’ll get 4,000 points from that room.
Requirement Points
Place at least 6 pieces of furniture 1,000
Place at least 10 pieces of furniture 1,000
Place at least 15 pieces of furniture 1,000
Place at least 20 pieces of furniture 1,000
Hang furniture items on wall 400 per item, maximum 1,200 points

HHA Score Bonuses

There are several ways to have bonuses with the types of items you display, below are the bonuses that exist within the game.

Type Bonus

Bonus Points for displaying all daily life necessities (chair, table, bed, and wardrobe or dresser) within the house.

  • They can be in different rooms and the points are rewarded once for the house.
  • You’ll get 2,500 points if you have all four types.

Series Bonus

Bonus Points for displaying multiple items from the same series (antique, cherry blossoms, carboard, etc.).

  • If you have 4 or more unique items from the same series displayed, you’ll get 1,000 points per items from that series.
  • If you have more than one series in a room, the series with the most items displaced will be used for the scoring.

Set Completion Bonus

Bonus Points for displaying all of the unique items from a set in the same room.

  • Sets are furniture that match each other.
  • If you displaced all of the furniture from a set, you’ll get 800 points for each set items.
  • Multiple completed sets in the same room counts towards the bonus, but duplicate sets won’t be counted.

Color Bonus

Points for color uniformity among items in the room.

  • To get the bonus, you have at least 8 items in the room. If at least 70% of the items have same color, you’ll get 200 points for each unique items. If you have 90% uniformity, you’ll get 600 points for each unique items.
  • Wallpaper and flooring doesn’t count toward this bonus.

Feng Shui Bonus

Points for displaying items of a certain color in the within two squares from south, east, and west wall of the room or on the walls.

  • East: Red, South: Green, West: Yellow
  • You’ll get 500 points for each walls and you only have to displace one item of the matching color in each area.

Category Bonus

Points for displaying items of various categories within the same room.

  • If you have at least 3 unique furniture from a category displayed, you’ll get 500 points for each categories.

Concept Bonus

Points for displaying more than a set number of items from the same “concept”.

  • If 5 or more items with same concept is displayed in one room, you’ll get 400 points for each item matching that concept.
  • If there are more than one concept in a room, the concept with the most items will be used for calculation.
  • The items doesn’t have to be unique.

Lucky/Season Bonus

Points for items which match the current season, or items which are “Lucky”.

  • You get 777 points for each unique seasonal or lucky items displayed.
  • Seasonal bonus are only rewarded for items displaced in the appropriate season.
  • They can be in different rooms and the points are rewarded once for the house.

Seasonal items are listed below:

Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Bamboo shelf Anchor statue Cricket Tarantula
Cherry-blossom bonsai Artisanal bug cage Mush parasol Frozen tree
Wobbling Zipper toy Horned hercules Tree’s bounty big tree Stringfish
- Napoleonfish - -
- Palm-tree lamp - -
- Scorpion - -
- Shell wreath - -

Likewise, lucky items are listed below:

  • ACNH Nintendo Switch
  • Brewstoid
  • Crescent-moon chair
  • Gold bug trophy
  • Gold fish trophy
  • Gold rose wreath
  • Gold turtle figurine
  • Golden candlestick
  • Golden samurai suit
  • Kanji tee
  • Katana
  • Koi
  • Lucky gold cat
  • Paradise Planning photo
  • Pop-eyed goldfish
  • Ring
  • Robot hero
  • Resident’s photo

All NPC photos are also lucky items, except Brewster’s, Isabelle’s, Jingle’s, Rover’s, Timmy and Tommy’s, and Tom Nook’s photos.

Penalties

Points deducted for rooms in poor condition (cockroaches, trash, furniture facing wall, etc)

Conditions Points Deducted
Items dropped on the floor -1 times # of items
Items facing the wall -300 times # of improperly placed items 1
Cockroaches in the room -2,500 times # of cockroaches
Trash in room -500 times # of pieces of trash

Points are calculated per room, unless stated otherwise. There’s no luck mechanic in the game.

What are the rewards?

Points Reward
10,000 HHA Pennant
20,000 Bronze HHA plaque
30,000 Silver HHA plaque
50,000 Gold HHA plaque
70,000 Bronze HHA trophy
100,000 Silver HHA trophy
150,000 Gold HHA trophy

  1. Items with ItemHHADirection as 1 in the spreadsheet. ↩

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