Does The Pokémon TCG Pocket Wonder Pick Trick Work?

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The Wonder Pick system makes for simultaneously one of the best and most frustrating mechanics of , making a rumored trick to guarantee the card you're after all the more enticing. Put forward by keen fans, the Wonder Pick trick supposedly allows you to take advantage of a glitch where, if you press the skip button during the shuffling animation, the five cards with each pick will stay in their same positions when reversed. This hypothetically means you can memorize and instantly pick out the card you need.

For everyday players who know all too well how Wonder Picks work, this sort of quick fix solution would easily solve one of most annoying problems. For anyone going entirely free-to-play and refusing to spend money on microtransactions for premium currency, the limited Stamina you get to spend on the feature each day is quite frustrating, since you only get a 20% chance of pulling the key card you're trying to add to your collection. Even if the Wonder Pick trick did work, no one would blame you for trying it at least once.

Unfortunately for hopeful players, the Wonder Pick trick does not work in. Confirmed through multiple tests, if you press the skip button during the shuffling animation during each Wonder Pick, the final positions of all five cards will be randomized in completely the same way as they would've been otherwise. You may just so happen to select the card you're trying to pick, but that's merely down to luck as said card has the same 20% chance of landing on the spot it was in originally.

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There is also a second Wonder Pick trick rumor in where you can narrowly identify a card's position by screen recording the shuffle before playing it back and pausing, but that doesn't work either. If you're eager to get any of new promo cards in a Wonder Pick, you'll just have to keep trying until you luck out. Even if you don't