How To Crack Hydro Thunder’s Ding Dong Achievement

Right, we’re going to cover this one for the sake  of all those poor, tortured souls like us that have become entangled in what’s essentially an exercise in lateral thinking.

Awarded for hitting every ‘checkpoint’ in Lake Powell while still finishing first, it’s more certainly a deceptive little bugger. The reason? It doesn’t make you total the boat by crashing into the buoys, it doesn’t have some secret time limit and there’s no need to recite the 50 states as you career round, either.

Instead, the one act of deception is this: the finishing line also counts as a checkpoint, meaning you’ll have to tap one of its buoys as you come to rest in order to activate the relevant criteria. We can’t tell you how long we’ve been banging our head against a virtual brick wall with this one, for it all to emerge as some kind of back-handed joke. Boo.