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Swimming Merit Badge

Nine requirements, twenty-five parts, and one of them is a gate: the swimmer test comes before six of the other eight, because the badge says so in advance rather than leaving it to be worked out.

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Sustainability Merit Badge

Nine requirements, six of which are choices: five "do one of three" and one "do two of six". Answer them and two-thirds of the branches disappear; two of the ones that remain are measured in weeks.

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Personal Fitness Merit Badge

Twelve consecutive weeks, and the tests that measure them have to be taken before the first week starts. This is the badge that punishes starting in the middle.

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Personal Management Merit Badge

Ten requirements and sixty-three parts, but the one that matters is thirteen consecutive weeks, and the budget has to be written before those weeks start, not after.

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Hiking Merit Badge

Five requirements, and one of them is five separate days: four 10-mile hikes and a 20-mile hike, each of continuous miles, each with a written plan approved before you start walking.

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Lifesaving Merit Badge

Seventeen requirements with thirteen of them behind a gate, and half the gate is the Swimming merit badge, which has to be earned before most of this badge can begin.

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Cooking Merit Badge

Three kitchens (home, camp and trail) each with the same five steps in the same order. The menu comes first every time, and the three menus may not be the same.

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Six requirements, and the sixth is a fork: road biking with a road safety test and 100 miles of riding, or trail biking with a trail safety test and 30, plus a second choice nested inside the road option.

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Environmental Science Merit Badge

Eleven requirements and thirty-one parts, but six of them are "do ONE of the following": answer the six questions and you are looking at thirteen. Two of the parts have a clock attached.

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Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge

Ten requirements and fifty-nine parts, and requirement 9 is not a part at all, it is the whole First Aid merit badge. Start that one first; everything else here can wait for it.

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Family Life Merit Badge

Seven requirements, nineteen parts, and one of them takes ninety days. Everything else here is an afternoon, which is exactly why the ninety-day one has to start today.

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First Aid Merit Badge

The largest merit badge here: fifteen requirements, a hundred and six parts, and almost no order between them. This is an honest grouped checklist rather than a dependency graph, plus the six parts that need equipment or another person.

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Camping Merit Badge

Ten requirements, thirty-six parts, and two places where you choose. Most of it can be done in any order, but four steps depend on another step having happened first, and one of them is twenty nights long.

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Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge

Eight requirements, twenty-five parts, one choice of two from four, and one requirement that quietly needs five consecutive days before you can discuss it.

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Citizenship in Society Merit Badge

Eleven requirements behind one gate: requirement 1 comes before all the others, and the badge says so itself. Includes the three choices it makes you take, and why the Hub and the Eagle application both fail to list this badge as Eagle-required.

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Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge

Eight requirements, twenty-two parts, and two chains that have to run in order: the one ending in eight hours of volunteering, and the one ending in an interview you cannot arrange until you know who to interview.

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Citizenship in the World Merit Badge

Seven requirements and thirty-two parts, but three of them are "do two of the following", one of those is nested inside another, and a Scout who answers the three questions is looking at closer to twenty.

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Communication Merit Badge

Nine requirements, three of them a choice of one, and four that need an audience, an approval, or a meeting that happens on somebody else's calendar.

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