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This guide provides comprehensive details on how to unlock each achievement within the base set, offering clear steps and strategies to ensure your success. Additionally, it includes useful information on the leaderboards for those interested in tracking their progress and competing at higher levels.
Set consists of 28 achievements worth 203 points
Set released on TBD
This game is not a hard game, you cannot die, and the game only really "ends" when you complete the game with 100% done. You can use the password system to save/load if you need to, but you can complete this game easily in under 30 minutes. You should be prepared to do 2 runs of this game, and you may need a 3rd run to capture a missing challenge achievement. This Guide will go through without using your powers on the first time you reach Kardal.
Start a game, watch the cutscene where you and your girls are having a picnic while Sultan Kartal creeps on you. He steals the genie lamps and runs off and now you need to go save your friends and reform the Sultan's ways.
You are now in control in the Crystal City, and you need to collect the Elemental Crystals, learn how to use those powers, then rescue your Genie friends.
Going from Left to Right: Grab the Carpet (1/14) and give it to the Lady in the window for a treasure (1/15):

While your here, you would have passed some cats in the windows, go back and interact with any of the cats for the Terra Challenge (1/6):
Swing up to the roofs and collect your first crystal (1/4):
Interact with the parrot for the Terra Challenge (2/6):
Drop to the ground level and talk to the kid between the two women dressed in blue:
| Badge | Title & Description | Points |
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Cool Barbie Be told that you are cool |
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Proceed to the right grab the next crystal (2/4):
A little further to the right is the Palace, enter it and begin your first maze.
There are three objectives in this maze. I will leave it to you to go through the maze, but note that you want the Harp (2/14) in the upper left section of the maze (Tower), one crystal (3/4) in center bottom of the Maze (Garden), and the top right of the maze for the last crystal (4/4) (Library).


After collecting all three items, go back to the entrance and talk to the Queen. She will have you match the crystals to elements, and then have you use those elements to destroy the blocks we will see later.
Completing the tasks she awards you a Medallion and you have become a Genie yourself... minus the lamp.
| Badge | Title & Description | Points |
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Classically Trained Genie Collect all 4 crystals and be trained by Queen Aladima |
2 |
Before we disembark on our journey to free our friends, we should clean up the last remaining tasks in the Crystal City so we don't have to come back here later.
Leaving the Crystal Palace, head right to the Mother/Child combo milling about. Talking with them, she will give you her husband's Lunch (3/14). He's at the very start of the city, so head all the way back to the man and talk with him netting you a treasure (2/15):

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Barbie's Delivery Service Fetch the man's lunch, deliver it to him, and collect your treasure |
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Either on your way to deliver the food, or on your way out of the city, talk to the old man at the top of the stairs, returning his Harp, and gaining another piece of treasure(3/15):
Let's leave this city and start rescuing some genies! Head all the way right and enter the Forest
On first entering we will see that our friends were not putting up with the Sultan's shenanigans, so naturally his plan is to imprison them all for all eternity.
Right as we start, interact with the butterfly right at the entrance (3/6):
Once you pestered that butterfly move into the forest and find this man in the tree house:
Talking to him, he advises a little quid pro quo. You help him water some plants, he will give you the means to free a powerful genie that's been enslaved. Totally reasonable. Those plants need watering.
Solving the first watering challenge will net you the Terra ring. Keep talking to him and watering plants to power up the ring fully.
REMEMBER: If you are going for "Deny Your Power", DO NOT press/use your powers button with any fully powered ring equipped
| Badge | Title & Description | Points |
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The Power of Earth Collect the Earth Ring and fully power it |
5 |
Once down, go to the forest floor, and move to the right and talk to the horse without equipping your Terra Ring to be snubbed by it.
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Snubbed by A Horse Talk to a horse like creature without the Terra Ring equipped |
1 |
Enter the Magical Mines to the right of the horse. Same story as the last maze, but there is only one objective, save Terra. Navigate to the right, save Terra, and retrace your steps back out. Ignore the shortcut this run, we will use it later.
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Save Terra Collect the Terra Ring and save Terra |
2 |
We are done with this area for now, so let's grab the boy's Bow (4/14), and give it back to him for another treasure (3/15).

We are going to the City in the Clouds, get there by going all the way up and to the right.
It's time for us to get the ring you will have equipped 99% of the time, but let's just quickly knock out the birds on our way (4/6)`:
Talk to this guy, who I assume is the King, and he will ask you to train a Pegasus. The first time he will give you the ring, and every time after he will power up your ring. Assuming you are doing the Deny Your Power achievement, it's easiest if you don't max it out right now and come back to it later, so you can't accidently trigger your power, but it's your call.
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The Power of Air Collect the Air Ring and fully power it |
5 |
Collect the Feather (5/14) just above the King, and if you haven't already been Snubbed by a Horse, then I recommend you get it now by talking to the Pegasus to the right of the King (without the Terra Ring Equipped ofcourse). If you haven't already, equip the Air Ring to speed up your movement.

We have done everything we can in the City of Clouds, so lets free Sylvia. Navigate to the top right of the area and enter the Secret Cloud.
Here we have 2 possible things to do in this area, Save Sylvia, and get the Crystal Raindrop. We are going to skip the Crystal Raindrop for now as it requires fire powers to unlock. You can though get to the Genie lamp by going through the lower pathway and wrap around to the upper right side of the Maze. Once you save her, make your way back through the Maze.
| Badge | Title & Description | Points |
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Save Sylvia Collect the Air Ring and save Sylvia |
2 |
Exit back into the City of Clouds, and move to the bottom right of the screen and enter the Dragon's Playground.
Ok, we are dropping down from the sky, and get the Toy (5/14) in the tree:
Fly a little up to interact with the Dragonfly (5/6)
We will now talk to this lady to help her cleanup the bed so her dragons can sleep, netting you the ring.
Keep talking to her and keep cleaning up the bed to power up the ring fully.
| Badge | Title & Description | Points |
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The Power of Fire Collect the Fire Ring and fully power it |
5 |
Talk to the kid just a little further right and give him the Toy to get your treasure (4/15).
and now it's time to go into the Dragon Nursery. Entering here we can collect a Necklace, which we will hold off on as we need the water ring powered up, and to save Fiera from an eternity in a Nursery.
We can also complete our first Genie Challenge of the game, getting to Fiera without using her ring. Enter the maze and equip the fire ring and find your way to the lamp without freeing her. Then route your pathway with directions. You will find that the animations on Barbie does not stop playing even if you are hitting a wall, but you will note that the camera snaps into position when she stops moving, and if she is at the bottom of the area, etc, the camera does not center on her. You can use this to identify where you are with how the camera responds. Leave the Nursery and enter again without the fire ring equipped to try again.
| Title | Guidance & Insights | Test |
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Fiera's Challenge Rescue Fiera without having her ring equipped in the Dragon Nursery |
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Save Fiera Collect the Fire Ring and Save Fiera |
2 |
You can equip the Fire Ring and make your way back out, or use the Air Ring and feel your way back out.
Once out, grab the Bottle (6/14) just to the right of the entrance, and talk to the girl to the left of the entrance to give her the Bottle and get a treasure (5/15).

Head off to the right and talk to this guy to get the Mermaid's Gift (7/14) and leave to Hidden Atlantis.
Hidden Atlantis/Coral Reef
Ok, unlike regular Atlantis, we are going to Hidden Atlantis. You find out that all the merfolk are asleep due to the Sultan's magic, but he didn't take into account that the turtle can talk, and has the Water Ring we are looking for. Talk to the turtle to get the Water Ring and perform his task of catching fish in order of it being displayed. Power up the ring as well at this time. Wear Marid's Ring to speed yourself up in this area.``
| Title | Guidance & Insights | Test |
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The Power of Water Collect Marid's Ring and fully power it |
5 |
So, we are going for Marid's Challenge, so lets do some prep work before heading into the Coral Reef. We are going to collect the Magic Wand (8/14), Fishing Net (9/14)
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Craft a Genie Master level potion found in Activity Mode. In the Start Menu select "Activity Mode", select the |
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| Collect the Water Ring and save Marid| |
| Deliver the gifts between man and mermaid and collect your treasure| |
| Craft the rainbow potion| |
| Fire the ovens and collect your treasure| |
| Water the tree and collect your treasure| |
| Complete all side quests| |
| Collect all sidequest items in one session| |
| Interact with each type of little critter and have them flee from you| |
| Once you rescue Marid, resolve all of the quests related with the awoken Alantinians in 5 minutes or less| |
| Defeat the Sultan Kardal and help him reform his ways- This achievement counts as the win condition for beating the game. | |
| Compete the game in one session with out using the genie powers| |
| Skip Fiera and leave her trapped in her lamp| |
| Complete the game under 15 minutes| |
| Collect all treasures, upgrade all rings, rescure all genies and complete the game| |
| Watch the Credits after becoming the Ultimate Genie by not doing anything in the start menu|
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Craft a Genie Master level potion found in Activity Mode. In the Start Menu select "Activity Mode", select the |
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This section provides a detailed breakdown of the various leaderboards featured in the game, helping players understand how to compete, measure progress, and achieve high scores. Each leaderboard is thoroughly explained, covering its purpose, requirements, and how scores are calculated.
Inside, you'll find:
- Leaderboard Overviews: A description of what each leaderboard represents, such as mission completion challenges.
- Start Requirements: Information on how to activate the leaderboard.
- Cancel Conditions: Clear explanations of what actions or circumstances will deactivate or invalidate the player's leaderboard attempt.
- Submit Conditions: The steps necessary to successfully submit your score to the leaderboard.
- Score Calculation Details: A breakdown of how the player's score is determined, with formulas and factors like damage taken and other gameplay metrics.
With this guide, the player will not only understand the mechanics behind each leaderboard but also gain insights into how to optimize performance and climb the ranks. Whether aiming to perfect a mission or striving for the top spot in specific challenges, this section equips you with everything you need to know.
| Title | Guidance & Insights |
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| - Complete the game and become the Ultimate Genie. |
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