Overview
= Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
= Offline: 27/27 (1000)
= Online: 0/0 (0)
= Approximate amount of time to 1000: 6-8 hours
= Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 0 (technically not playthroughs, but you will have to play each type of game multiple times [10 Quiz, 3 Explorer and 4 Puzzle])
= Does difficulty affect achievements?: Yes. 5 - Quiz Hero, Quiz Lord, Quiz Titan, Child's Play, Mommas and Poppas. See below for more details
= Number of missable achievements: None
= Do cheat codes disable achievements?: No Cheats
= Extra equipment: Yes, 2 - 4 extra controllers
= Glitched or unobtainable achievements: Yes, 1 - On A Roll, EU version.
Helpful Links
Slider puzzle solver - https://analogbit.com/software/puzzletools
How to Complete Each Jigsaw Puzzle in About 1 Minute 30 Seconds
Nat Geo Challenge--Slider Puzzle Solutions
Introduction
Welcome to National Geographic Challenge! This game is a simple, yet fun, quiz and puzzle game that asks questions about topics from around the world. This is a very simple game, and anyone with some geographical knowledge should have no trouble with this. I think the game is aimed at middle school and early high school students.
The game is split into three modes: Quiz, Explorer and Puzzles.
In Quiz, you are asked multiple choice questions which aren’t that hard. Sometimes the answers are blatantly obvious. There are five rounds per game and three lengths (40, 60 and 80 questions). There are two difficulties and you get to pick one of six continents to be asked questions about.
Explorer is fun. It’s basically s a simplified version of the board game, Risk. You take over territories, trying to gain as many points as possible. When you are in conflict with another player, you enter challenge mode, where you either try to answer a question correctly or place puzzle pieces in the correct places. Get the maximum amount of points and win the game!
Puzzle mode is kind of dull and slow, to be honest. There are three types: jigsaw, square and slider. You have to put the puzzles back together and are timed while you do it (although there is no achievement for doing them quickly). Square puzzles are slightly harder since the pieces don’t interlock.
You can do these steps in any order. Each step should take about an hour and a half to two hours.
Step 1: Quiz Mode - 300
First, you are going to want to play five quizzes on Easy mode. Play three short quizzes (40 questions), one medium quiz (60 questions) and one long quiz (80 questions) with at least two other controllers. When you do, you will unlock Enter a new challenger and Child’s Play.
Score more than 1,000 points during one of the three short quizzes and you will unlock Quiz Hero. Scoring more than 2,000 points during the medium quiz will unlock Quiz Lord. Plug in at least two other controllers (three total) and play and win a long quiz with at least 4,000 points to unlock Quiz Titan and Bragging Rights.
If you finish round 2 or 4 in the negative and complete one of the short quizzes with a negative score, you will unlock Counter-Intelligence.
Next, you will want to play five quizzes on Hard mode. I recommend playing short quizzes (40 questions) so you can breeze right through them in roughly 5-8 minutes each. This will unlock Mommas and Poppas. You will also unlock …One for All since you played these by yourself.
Step 2: Explorer Mode - 520
You will need just one controller for most of this step. You need at least two controllers to unlock On a Roll. You will need to play a minimum of three games of Explorer to get all of the achievements.
Your first game you will want to play ‘Hot-Seat’ mode with four players on Easy. In this game you will unlock the majority of the achievements (besides Hearts and Minds, On a Roll and two of the territory achievements). Go through the game concentrating on each player taking over one continent. The game ends when one player reaches 1,700 points, so plan your game out.
Your second game is going to be played with two players in ‘Hot-Seat’ on Easy. In this game, the only goal is to get the remaining two territory achievements (whichever they may be) and to unlock Hearts and Minds. Once you have them, you can quit out of the game. There is no need to finish the game.
The third and final game you will need at least two controllers. It’s easier if you play with more, but for On a Roll, you cannot play in ‘Hot-Seat’ mode. The goal of this game is to win five consecutive puzzle challenges. Make sure you plan your strategy ahead of time to unlock this easily. Once you unlock the achievement, you can quit out of the game.
Step 3: Puzzle Mode - 180
First off, you need to play one two-player game of ‘Puzzle Battle’ with two controllers. Make sure Player 1 wins.
Next, there are three puzzle modes (jigsaw, square and slider). Jigsaw and square puzzles will take about the same amount of time, roughly an hour each. Jigsaw puzzle modes are 30 puzzles each (six continents, five puzzles each) and square puzzle mode has 24 puzzles (six continents, four puzzles each). Slider puzzles will take a maximum of 10 minutes if you use Kiskit’s solutions posted in the forum below. There are 24 puzzles total (six continents, four puzzles each).
Link: Nat Geo Challenge--Slider Puzzle Solutions
Conclusion
Congratulations on another 1000. That wasn’t so painful, now was it? And you might have learned something. How often do you do that while playing a game?
[x360a would like to thank MeonOner & bLaKgRaVy for this Roadmap]