Easy guide to snap of your finger acheivement

[norfsled]

Ok so I decided to do this acheivement since it gives 3 insta monkeys and only requires 1 game to complete, perfect reward. You must finish the game with exactly half your starting cash and starting lives.

I looked it up on google to see if there is an ez way to do it. I found a guide on the fandom wiki page for bloons td 6 which claimed the easiest way was doing it is in deflation mode and it then proceeded to list the most ridiculous overly complicated method using a certain hero and map and specific towers and things to at certain rounds. Like no dude there must be an simpler and more consistent way of doing this lmao XD

So here is what I did instead. You can do it on any map using any or no hero at all. I will assume no monkey knowledge or mk turned off. Easy difficulty of course, just 40 rounds, start with 200 lives and 650 cash.

The half lives thing is super easy, just let the first rounds pass until you get close to 100 then place a cheap tower that pops some bloons and if needed, sell it and place it again. Count the bloons so you get exactly 100 lives, at this stage there are only blue and red bloons. This is way easier than it sounds. This is also so early in the game that you can just restart if you fail, no big deal. Or use x4x druid to top up a few lives during the game later.

So for the money part. Since there is a moab at round 40, this will give some money when popped and you need to end at 325 cash. A quick visit to sandbox reveals that this moab will give 381 cash. There is the main problem, that's more than you need to end with so you have to buy something during this round. Say you buy the cheapest dart monkey for 170 money. you gonna end up with less than 325 if you have 0 at the start. So you need to start round 40 with some amount of cash and then buy a dart monkey during the round to end up with 325. How much do you need to start with? Here is where the math I learned in kindergarten comes in handy. It's 114 money! 114+381 for the moab -170 for the dart monkey = 325.

So here is what you do: Fix the lives, then get to round 39 any way you want, doesn't matter. Stop before starting the last round (turn off auto start in pause menu). Sell everything and buy a 4xx sniper. this will easily handle the moab and ceramics and still give you time to buy the dart monkey. You gonna have like 6-7 k now. Place some villages or whatever to get below 1k, then repeatedly buy and sell any monkey until your cash amount ends with a 4. now access that kindergarten math you learned or use a calculator and figure out how much you need to spend to get to 114, place any combination of towers or upgrades to acheive this. It's surprisingly easy, but if you fail just sell a village to get back some cash and keep doing previous steps until you get down to 114 cash.
Start the round and as soon as you can, hit q and place the dart monkey. Done, first try. No skill required.

[Yellow]

..you do know how to post a guide, right? no need for big discussion. either way good job

[Dlanor]

Pretty sure something about it is broken, I tried getting the achievement twice this patch in deflation, and ended with half lives and money, no achievement either time.