Big Walk checklist: find missing puzzles

Read the Map Room before making your own list

Players keep asking for a numbered list because Big Walk never explains that the large model in the Map Room updates with the host save. Once the Red Tower opens that room, it becomes a live audit of the island rather than a static decoration.

Look at the state of each puzzle marker, not only whether you remember visiting it. A reward lying sideways means the challenge was solved but its reward has not been carried to a tower or completion structure. A small blue flag beside an upright marker means that work is fully banked. A location without that finished state is where the group should walk next.

This is more reliable than copying another group’s total. The host chooses a 2-player, 3-player or 4-plus world, and the exact puzzle arrangements can change with that choice.

Main progression checklist

Use this as the broad route, then let the Map Room provide the location-level truth. The individual challenges can be completed in different orders, so a rigid walkthrough is less useful than checking which gate the group is currently feeding.

• □ Opening area — clear the four cooperative challenges that open the drawbridge.
• □ Red Tower — deliver five red puzzle rewards to open the Map Room.
• □ Green Tower — deliver five rewards to open the chairlift route.
• □ Blue Tower — deliver five rewards to activate the train network.
• □ Yellow Tower — deliver five rewards to open the tunnel network.
• □ Black Tower and wall route — continue after all four coloured tower systems are available.
• □ Black sphere — finish the main cooperative finale and unlock Big Goodbye.

The red puzzles most groups leave behind

The coloured towers do not require every normal puzzle. They consume enough rewards to open the main route, leaving optional red challenges scattered across the island. Those leftovers are why a group can reach the credits and still be far from full completion.

After the ending, return to the Map Room and ignore places with blue flags. Visit every remaining normal marker, solve it, and confirm the model changes before walking across the island again. If a reward lies sideways, the challenge is done and the unfinished job is delivery rather than deduction.

Add the seven purple challenges after Big Goodbye

The purple set is the dedicated post-game layer: seven harder remixes reached around the far chairlift ridge and purple tunnel. They belong on a 100% checklist, not on the shortest route to the first ending.

Some groups physically reach that ridge early by climbing or following the chairlift route. That does not change the safest completion order: finish Big Goodbye on the original host save, reload that world, then use the updated map and the dedicated purple-puzzle guide to clear the seven as one set.

A ten-minute audit that prevents an hour of backtracking

Put one person in the Map Room and send the rest to the nearest unfinished cluster. The map reader calls one landmark at a time, records whether the marker changed, and does not redirect anyone until the current reward is either delivered or deliberately left sideways.

Before the host closes the session, take one final pass around the model. That creates a clean starting point for the next evening and stops the group arguing about whether a puzzle was solved on somebody else’s save.

• Choose one map reader and keep that role for the whole audit.
• Start with compact clusters instead of the farthest single marker.
• Separate “solved” from “delivered” when calling progress.
• Recheck the model after every completion rather than at the end of the night.
• Keep the same host: the checklist belongs to the host save.

Do not mix achievements, equipment and puzzle completion

Backpacks, hip bags, radio stations, cosmetic paint and landmark achievements are useful completion goals, but they are not all puzzle markers. Mixing them into one count is how guides produce totals that disagree while describing the same island.

Use the Map Room for puzzle completion, the achievement list for trophies, and focused item guides for equipment. Three short lists are clearer than one invented master number.