Holiday 35
Thanksgiving
4th Thursday of November
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When it falls
4th Thursday of November — computed via Nth-weekday-of-month.
Worked dates:
| Year | Date |
|---|---|
| 2026 | November 26 |
| 2030 | November 28 |
| 2050 | November 24 |
What it shows on the island
From holidays.yml:
Cornucopia with fruit.
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
#7A3A1A, #C99A2A, #8A1A1A
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 holidayNthWeekdayOfMonth(n, weekday, month, year), which calls holidayDayOfWeek (Tomohiko Sakamoto / Zeller). See Date-algorithm core.
Emblem
This holiday has an emblem on the shared sheet at cell 31, pixel offset (224, 96). View the packed sheet on GitHub: docs/ps1/holidays-emblems/holiday-emblems-sheet.png. Full index: Emblem gallery.
Source
- Row in
holidays.yml(search forid: 35orshort_name: "THANKSGIVE"). - Generated row in
src/holidays_table.c.