Board Thread:General Discussion and Questions/@comment-27904998-20160410082114/@comment-27816425-20160410090350

I think the wandering friends are chosen by the game. To hire a friend you can either tap on one of these wandering guys or go to your friends list and hire exactly the one you want to. But be careful: you can only hire on friend, not like in Secret Society several ones for one picture.

Because of charging pictures and puzzles: there has been no LBS yet, and you simply have no other possibility...