I was thinking that especially for kids it would be neat to have a jigsaw puzzle using fish scenes, with different degrees of difficulty. They could have scenes of real fish or screenshots from the game.

I was also thinking of a memory type game, with cards that had the different perfect fish and magic fish on them, face down, and you try to flip them for a match.

And I may be weird on this next one, but I love chance type games, where you roll dice or flip a coin,, and then have to guess what the outcome will be. The longer you are right, the bigger the reward. Maybe like a "Millionaire" type structure, where at certain levels you automatically get to keep a certain amount, even if you lose later on. It could be as simple as guessing fish heads or fish tails before a random coin flip. Stastically its 50/50, so the longer you guess correct, the easier it is. Or a dice rolling and guessing evens or odds. Or it could be 3 imaginary doors, and you have to guess which one the prize is in. As I said - I maybe be weird about enjoying those things.

The game coule be playing tic-tac-toe vs the computer, or dots (where the object is to connect the dots to make more boxes than your opponent).

The problem with mini games is that they do have to be mini. The games cannot get too complicated because the coding gets too complex and the file gets to large. Minigames do not have to be big, complex ideas, just time killers.

Any minigames they add have to be pretty simple, which is why I didn't like the idea of getting to keep fish or plants collected in the minigames - it would be too easy to get all your fish that way. But if the point of the games is just to take up some time while waiting for fish to sell, or to speed up the process, then little rewards like saving up points for Isola bucks or items (or maybe later to open decor options) would make perfect sense.

The minigames aren't to overshadow FT, they are just to add another bit of flavor to the game in the parts that can be a bit tedious.