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It appears that trivia cards spawn based on some amount of time instead of having a chance to spawn when entering an area, and they also won't spawn if you're currently carrying 10 or more unanswered cards so make sure you're answering them as you pick them up. If you fail a card you can still pick up another one to replace it, and progress tracks between all playthroughs. Although once you reach Act V I think you won't find any more cards.

Each area has multiple locations a card can spawn at, and sometimes cards can look crumpled so they may be hard to spot. But they do not spawn randomly in the area as each area's card locations are fixed so they only spawn at certain locations but the location it spawns it is random. Leaving and re-entering an area doesn't seem to do much to get them to spawn faster, it very much seems like it's based on some amount of time since you last picked up a card in that area.

So to grind this out, get to Act IV and progress far enough that you've unlocked every area you can. Every 20 minutes or so (you can turn the game off and come back, you don't need to leave it running) make a run through every area and picking up as many cards as you can find. Solve them, wait another 20 minutes and repeat. Having saves from different playthroughs may also help and switching back and forth between them.

You can use this guide for the answers: https://legendofmi.com/features/articles/return-to-monkey-is...

For the card that asks for the location to Cogg Island (I'm not sure how many are like this, but this specific one can only be gotten on a subsequent playthrough), just choose the only answer that has a letter and then a number like this "M.7".

If you know what trivia cards look like and when and where to search scroll down to "heres the important bit"

when you first get to the scumm bar youll find the trivia book, you ned this to collect the trivia cards

the cards can be on any scene in the game, for example the scumm bar, barebones island, le chucks ship(deck, lechucks cabin, below deck corridor) melee (on the docks, voodoo shop, fish shop, jail, locksmith, mayors mansion, back alley, lookout point, museum, museum woods path, stans shipyard) , scurvy island on any of the many interaction points and occasionally on berrrrmuda and terror island.

The trivia cards are light browny beige in colour and can be flat or crumpled, completely on show or slightly tucked into creveses, under matts, tucked into doors etc.

To find them its best to have a lot of areas unlocked, so as alot of people say when researching this achievement wait until chapter 4. I had all of the areas unlocked available and could move in between them using the ship you build with elaine.

Heres the important bit!!! Do a run through all the areas you have available and look for trivia cards. Checking every available screen i was getting between 8-15 cards. Then get back on the boat, save and quit the game and and do something else for at least an hour, some people say 20 minutes but it didnt work for me.

DO NOT CONTINUALLY KEEP LOOKING, EACH AREA HAS A TIMER FOR RESPAWNING CARDS AND EVERY TIME YOU REENTER THE AREA YOU RESET THE TIMER AND WILL FIND 0-1 CARD.

After an hour run through all the areas again and youll get another 8-15 cards. Use the walkthrough provided by marklynx and the link below to answer the questions, if you get them wrong the card will eventually respawn. Doing it this way youll only have to do between 10-20 searchs instead of running around and just hoping youll find something
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