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Efficient Achievement Grind
By CountBubbleRat
A guide to grinding the achievements needed for 100% completion.
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Return of the Returner
Return 1000 items

THE CHOSEN ONE
Complete Day 100.

All Sticker Packs
Collect all stickers.

The Gamer
Complete 50 minigames.


You can grind all of these achievements at once, by taking advantage of the fact that you will only ever receive one of the same item at a time.

There are 3 phases to my plan, but Phase 2 is the core concept.
  • Phase 1 is purely for grinding stickers.
  • Phase 2 is for grinding days, stickers, minigames, and the returning of items.
  • Phase 3 is for grinding days if you still haven't reached 100 days by the end.
Phase 1 (optional)
Use the method in user @Mr. Salty's guide "EZ Sticker Farm™ (30 minutes to 100% collection)".
Here is a quick overview, but really you should view Mr. Salty's guide as it is far better written.

Begin: Chill Mode. Play normally for the first few days until you can afford the Court Papers. Buy the Court Papers as soon as you can, as you won't be making much money at first with this method. You may also want to save up enough for a table upgrade or two, as you will be hoarding every item that comes through.

Once you have them and no longer need to make money, you can get started.

Hoard: Everything except the four items which can have stickers; Luggage, Water Bottle, Gaming Laptop, and Notebook Laptop. Just take the other items from the conveyor belt and put them on your table. Never trash them, steal them, or give them to anyone. Just hoard them.

Now that your table is full of everything except for those four items, they are the only four which will turn up on the conveyor belt.

Use: Luggage, Water Bottle, Gaming Laptop, and Notebook Laptop. When you get one of the four items which can have stickers on it, take the stickers and THEN get rid of the item - trash it, steal it, give it away, whatever you want.

Ignore: All customers. You may spray the thief if you want.

Do this until you have the bulk of the sticker collection completed. Once you're down to only a few stickers left, it's time to change strategies.
Phase 2
Hoard: The four items with stickers on them. Leave the stickers on them, and place them on your table. Every day the stickers will change. It's randomised.

When you start the day, check to see if there's a sticker you need (you can check your sticker collection on a tab in the notebook).
  • If there is: take the stickers and get rid of the item however you like, so that you can get a new one.
  • If there is NOT a sticker you need, ignore the items and DO NOT take the stickers.
The next day the stickers will change, giving you another chance to get the ones you need.

Use: Every other item. Your table is full of stuff, so you can just give them away slowly over time, or you can start fresh by trashing/stealing/giving away every item except the four sticker items. As new items come in, play the game normally - give the items to those who request them, play the mini games etc.

If you don't want to deal with something, feel free to just trash them (when there is no one in the line next to the bin). E.g. boarding passes, cheap items which won't earn you much money, or small difficult to grab items like lipstick.

Continue in this way until you've completed your sticker collection, and returned 1000 items. You should naturally earn enough security & black market influence to access those stores, and enough money to buy all items from stores plus the $30,000 needed to end the game.

DO NOT go to the bank until you have returned 1000 items, as it must be done in the same game.
Phase 3 (optional)
If you still haven't reached 100 days in game by the time you've completed the other grinds, I recommend filling the table up again, and maybe grab a book or something, because you'll only need to pay attention to the game every 3mins or so to end the workday, & go home, thus starting the next day.

Hoard: Everything. When the table has one of everything, you will stop receiving items, which means the conveyor belt won't be automatically trashing things and you won't receive any penalties, angry customers, etc.

Use: Nothing.

Ignore: All customers. In chill mode, as long as you don't interact with customers they won't become angry, and will wait patiently all day. When you have 3 waiting, thieves will not be able to spawn so you don't even have to worry about being robbed.

Action: Every 3 or so minutes, click the notebook to end the day, then click your house and either give or don't give money to your family. The next day will automatically start.

Repeat: Until you've reached 100 days.
10 Comments
piripi_tok 1 Oct @ 7:51am 
what i did was with the sticker pack once you bought it in the beginning of the day you can open it - check if you need it continue like normal OR - if not needed you can save and quit to have a re-roll of the pack when you continue the game .. sadly it will not keep the ones you already got and I used this a couple of times .. could be handy when you get the purple pack and only need a sticker or two
Tri 6 Mar @ 2:30pm 
okay thanks, i will try, because even "normal" mode is too hard to me :D
CountBubbleRat  [author] 6 Mar @ 2:06pm 
@Tri I'm pretty sure I did them all on easy mode, but it's been a while so I might be misremembering.
Tri 6 Mar @ 11:29am 
hey hey

can i do all achievements on easiest playmode? in theory?

ir doesnt matter what level - normal/easy/hard - Im playing?
Swini 6 Feb @ 5:18am 
@CountBubbleRat thank you so so much! I gave you an Award <3
CountBubbleRat  [author] 5 Feb @ 6:27pm 
@Swini - 100% Achievement guide By jumeis is a really good guide for all of the achievements.

From that guide:

To defuse a bomb - Just try the different combinations until you open it. The correct order to defuse the bomb is shown by the 3 coloured dots above the cable connections. Thanks to Lidercfioka.

Rotation Salvation - Reset the rotation of 10 items. To reset the rotation of a skewed item, click and hold the item, then press the tab key.

So basically just pick up an item and click the tab key, if it wasn't straight, it will now become straight. Placing items too close to other items will "skew" them, so you can place the item next to/on top of another item and then pick it up and press the "tab" key - do this 10 times.
Swini 5 Feb @ 2:19pm 
Thank you so much for this! It was very Helpful! However I Still can't figure out how to defuse the Bomb and also I don't get what to do for the Rotation Salvation achievement. Can anyone Help?
Acer 1 Feb @ 9:52pm 
Yeesh. Thanks for this guide and listing the Phase 2 method!

I played out through all 100 days on normal, but was still missing 2 stickers. At this point I kept it on normal difficulty, but started accumulating items for the Phase 2 method (I would return an occasional other item just to avoid failing), completing a day with all four sticker items on the table.

With all four sticker items on the table, I save/quit and then continued to insta re-roll the stickers. Rinse and repeat. I did this at least 30 times, though I suspect I was easily past 60 and was starting to think the game was bugged. But I did eventually get one of my two missing stickers. Then it took me another 8 reloads before I got the last one. 🙃

So I'll vouch for this method working, even if the game has some wacky RNG.
CountBubbleRat  [author] 23 Jan @ 12:45am 
@nera very helpful addition, thank you!
nera 22 Jan @ 9:50pm 
dunno if it was mentioned but the one where u have to return 1000 items;

after hoarding everything, I managed to return approximately 20 items per day which makes it 50 days of returning items to get the achi

u can also keep the combination lock box on the rail to save space, it won't disappear (01/2025, chill mode)