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1) That is probably the most efficient way to get shells time-wise. You'll also be able to convert a fair number of the shells back into rupees, as each failed attempt at a figurine gives you 5 rupees as a consolation prize.

2) That would be too useful of it. I dare say there's enough to get them all with a 50% or 33% target rate.

3) Yep, I did exactly the same thing. /me slaps self

4) I aimed for a min 33% success rate to begin with, which makes the first set of figurines a lot cheaper. I'm not quite patient enough to try collection all the figurines with a min 1% success rate, even though that will get them all with no refills.

5) Yep, I've not taken them into account. Including them changes the odds and costs a little. Another potential exercise is to work out how much it costs if you always collect all available figurines before unlocking more (there's a few points during the game where more become available).

6) That way is rather tempting, and I may try that. First to get more shells... green picolyte doesn't drop anywhere near as many as some guides would have you believe. As it stands I've got 13 to collect, which for a 33% success could take as little as 375 shells. Or I could go for 100% and spend 1246 shells...

7) Yup, which is why I never did this on any of my previous playthroughs.

I did manage to get all 4 this time (hacing read up on and avoided the glitch). What I actually did for kinstones and heart pieces was to first print off a list of all of them, then as I found each one while playing tick it off. When it came down to mopping up the last few at the end I then had a list of all the ones I'd already found, which made that much easier.

For the town houses, the first went to Farore and the second to Nayru. No particular reason for picking those two.