Participation Award Trinket Guide

Description

Participation Award is a Main-tier Skill Check trinket associated with Twisted Shelly. The 25% increase to Skill Check Chance means the player will encounter Skill Checks more frequently during extraction, increasing the total opportunities to gain bonus completion. The 10% reduction to Skill Check Size means each individual check window becomes narrower, raising the difficulty of landing hits consistently. It is categorized as a Skill Check trinket and sits alongside Magnifying Glass as one of the more demanding check-focused options. Toons with a high Skill Check Value, such as Shelly or Gigi, are cited as the best beneficiaries.

Strategies

The Fandom recommended trinket sets name Participation Award and Magnifying Glass together as the primary Skill Check-based loadout. Pairing both trinkets adds more completion value per successful hit and increases Skill Check frequency, but compounds the size reduction from both trinkets simultaneously. Characters with a high Skill Check Value like Shelly or Gigi benefit most from this. Toons with a small Skill Check window — including Shrimpo, Bassie, Blot, and Cosmo — are warned that these trinkets may not be ideal unless the player can reliably hit extremely small Skill Checks. Paint Bucket or Thinking Cap are suggested alternatives for those Toons. Thinking Cap increases window size by 40 units, which can offset the penalties before stacking further Skill Check bonuses.

Trivia

Participation Award is a Main-tier trinket, placing it in the higher-rarity tier of Twisted Research trinkets alongside Savory Charm, Bone, Star Pillow, and Vee's Remote. The Fandom trivia notes that base-game Main Trinkets are mostly in the same category as their respective Main Character's 5-star Stat. Shelly's five-star stat relates to Skill Check, which is consistent with Participation Award being a Skill Check trinket.

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