Health

Skating Merit Badge

Two requirements, and the second is a choice between four options that share no work at all. Ice skating is fourteen steps, roller skating thirteen, in-line skating sixteen, and skateboarding fourteen with a choice of three trick families out of five inside it. Between forty six and fifty two of this badge's seventy steps belong to an option nobody will do, and which option to take is settled by the rink, pavement or skatepark you can actually reach.

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Dentistry Merit Badge

Seven requirements, and the first one needs dental radiographs that only a dentist can supply, while the requirement that arranges a dentist is numbered third. One appointment can carry four requirements if it is booked that way, and requirement 3 hides the instruction that decides what the visit contains in its second sentence, where it expires the moment you arrive. Two of requirement 6's five options are requirement 2 written up.

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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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Multisport Merit Badge

Eight requirements, and the fourth of them exists four times over: pick triathlon, duathlon, aquathlon or aquabike in requirement 3(d) and that answer decides requirement 4, requirement 5 and the race in requirement 7. Three of the four formats need the Swimming merit badge first; duathlon does not.

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Gardening Merit Badge

Nine requirements, two of which are seasons rather than tasks: requirement 2 grows twelve plants through harvest and flowering, and requirement 8 is ninety days on five of its six routes with the sixth needing somebody else's beehive. The two overlap on the calendar, the germination test at requirement 4 belongs before the sowing at requirement 2, and none of that is stated anywhere on the badge.

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Dog Care Merit Badge

Ten requirements, of which nine are conversations and one is two months long. Requirement 4 keeps and cares for a dog with a nine-item log including a weekly body weight record, and the things that log records are explained in requirements 6 and 8, both numbered after it. The rule that work here cannot count towards another badge now sits above the whole badge rather than inside requirement 4.

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Athletics Merit Badge

Four of nine options in requirement 5: the widest choice on this site, 126 combinations. And two separate three-month clocks that the badge never says are the same three months, which is the difference between a three-month badge and a six-month one.

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