Lost Lands: Sand Captivity – How to Get Specialist Achievement (Puzzle Solution)

The Specialist Achievement is described as “Complete the Stash mini-game in the forge in less than 3 minutes”. This can be quite challenging since the solution in the strategy guide does not work. This guide provides a working solution.

Stash Mini-Game Solution

All credit goes to NS Plover !

Puzzle Solution

The set of movements in the strategy doesn’t work as written, within the first 8 moves it has you move 21 right and then later wants you to move 21 up when it hasn’t moved anything there. Either it has a type-o or it is missing steps.

In order to get the achievement you have to do complete the puzzle in 3 minutes. If you didn’t get the achievement while playing, you should be able to go into the Extras menu and find it in the Mini-Games section (it’s number 14 you have to have played it in the main game to have access) and try until you get the achievement pop.

Number the locations you can move a blue or gold tile to as follows:

• Row 1: 1 to 10
• Row 2: 11 to 20
• Row 3: 21 to 30
• Row 4: 31 to 40
• Row 5: 41 to 50

This looks like (click image to see numbers better):

The following set of movements will move the gold tile to position 30 which is the win. If you need to stop and read the moves, click on the Menu button in the bottom left corner as this seems to pause the timer.

• 38 (blue) up to 28
• 18 (blue) up to 8
• 29 (blue) up to 19
• 20 (blue) up to 10
• 19 (blue) right to 20
• 28 (blue) up to 18
• 18 (blue) down to 28
• 27 (blue) up to 17
• 37 (blue) down to 47
• 28 (blue) down to 38
• 25 (blue) up twice to 5
• 24 (blue) up to 14
• 44 (blue) left to 43
• 42 (blue) left to 41
• 32 (blue) down to 42
• 22 (blue) down to 32
• 32 (blue) right to 33
• 21 (gold) right to 22
• 11 (blue) down to 21
• 13 (blue) up to 3
• 14 (blue) down to 24
• 3 (blue) down to 13
• 13 (blue) right to 14
• 22 (gold) up to 12
• 24 (blue) right to 25
• 33 (blue) up to 23
• 23 (blue) down to 33
• 33 (blue) left to 32
• 12 (gold) down to 22
• 22 (gold) right to 23
• 23 (gold) up twice to 3
• 14 (blue) left twice to 12
• 3 (gold) down to 13
• 13 (gold) right twice to 15
• 16 (blue) down to 26
• 15 (gold) right to 16
• 17 (blue) down to 27
• 16 (gold) right to 17
• 26 (blue) up to 16
• 27 (blue) down to 37
• 38 (blue) up to 28
• 28 (blue) left to 27
• 17 (gold) right to 18
• 27 (blue) up to 17
• 18 (gold) down to 28
• 28 (gold) right twice to 30 (end)