Holiday 11

Mardi Gras

47 days before Easter

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When it falls

47 days before Easter Sunday — anchored to the Meeus / Jones / Butcher Easter computation.

Worked dates:

Year Date
2026 February 17
2030 March 5
2050 February 22

For reference, Easter Sunday in those years falls on April 5 (2026), April 21 (2030), and April 10 (2050). The offset from holidays.yml is -47.

What it shows on the island

From holidays.yml:

Mardi Gras mask and beads.

Sprite

Dimensions: 32 × 32 pixels. Anchored at island position (404, 284).

Added by this port via the holiday expansion. existing_sprite: null. The visual is a 32x32 transparent emblem authored by an AI sub-agent in the shared 16-color CLUT defined in scripts/holidays_art_lib.py. It overlays the island corner during the holiday’s window rather than reskinning the scene.

Palette

 #6A1B9A,  #1F8A3A,  #D4AF37

Three-color hint from holidays.yml. This is a guide for the codegen step and the emblem authoring pass; the actual emblem samples from the shared 16-color CLUT, and the original Sierra sprites use the original game palette directly.

Algorithm

Computed by holidayEasterSunday(year, ...) (Meeus / Jones / Butcher) followed by holidayDateAdd for the offset. See Date-algorithm core.

Emblem

This holiday has an emblem on the shared sheet at cell 6, pixel offset (192, 0). View the packed sheet on GitHub: docs/ps1/holidays-emblems/holiday-emblems-sheet.png. Full index: Emblem gallery.

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