Hello Kitty Island Adventure is filled with iconic faces, but there are also some Sanrio characters that don’t appear as often as others. If you’ve never heard of Big Challenges, now is your time to get acquainted with him! This little resident is an alligator with a very simple language.

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In this guide, we’ll take a look at how to meet and befriend Big Challenges in Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Unlocking him takes a bit of work, so we’ll go over all the requirements that you need to complete beforehand. Thankfully, Big Challenges unlocks at the exact same time that Tophat does.
Where To Find Big Challenges
In order to unlock Big Challenges, you’ll need to complete A Challenging Rescue. This quest has a lot of requirements that you need to complete first, which we’ve listed below. Overall, this is a big chunk of the story, but as you complete the quests, more features and side quests will unlock as well.
Once you finish this list of quests, you can move on to start A Challenging Rescue. To start it, speak with Tophat, who is found in the upper right-hand corner of Gemstone Mountain, near the Icy Peak entrance (there is a fast-travel mailbox here).
After A Challenging Rescue has been completed, both Tophat and Big Challenges will be standing at the beach in the Seaside Resort. From here, you can freely interact with Big Challenges and give him gifts.
Gifts To Give Big Challenges
After Big Challenges joins the characters, you can give him gifts to level up your friendship. Overall, Big Challenges likes gifts with the Volcanic, Resilience, and Book tags. These look like a volcano, a shield, and a book, making them rather straightforward.
If a gift has at least one of these tags, then he’ll accept it as a one-heart gift. There are also a few two and three-heart gifts that you can give him, which we’ve listed below.
Hearts |
Gifts |
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3 Heart |
The Greatest Challenge |
2 Heart |
Meditations on Resilience |
In return for giving him a gift, Big Challenges will give you Little Challenges. This is a coin-like item used to craft books and his birthday balloons.
Overall, some great gifts that you can give Big Challenges are critters and fish found around Mount Hothead. These creatures will have the Volcanic tag, making them a good one-heart gift.
Another great option that provides a bit more friendship is Meditations on Resilience. This book requires just one Blank Book and one Little Challenge to make. It’s pretty cheap in terms of material requirement, so we suggest giving Big Challenges this.
Friendship Rewards
The main type of reward you’ll receive from Big Challenges is furniture. If you’ve ever wanted a Big Challenges-themed cabin, now is the time!
There are 20 levels of friendship that you can progress through with Big Challenges. Interestingly, this is double the number of friendship levels as Tophat, who is his best friend. Below, you can check out every friendship level and its associated reward.
Vacuum is an ability that causes you to automatically pick up foraged items within range.
Quests From Big Challenges
There is only one initial quest that you’ll unlock through leveling up your friendship with Big Challenges, but it’s actually a quest line with three parts. The subsequent steps in the quest don’t have any extra requirements though; you just need to wait a day.
Quest |
Description |
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Friendship Never Fades |
You need to complete the quest Purple Rain (and wait at least one day), as well as the Mystery Tree quest series in order to start this. This quest line is fairly long, but overall, you’ll need to visit with characters around the map, investigate the Fading, travel to the Heart of the Island, and ultimately meet the Island Spirit. |
Daily Quests
Lastly, we have daily quests associated with Big Challenges. As with all daily quests, only a handful will appear each day, so there is no guarantee that you will see any of these. You can find each possible daily quest below.
Quest |
Description |
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Enjoy the Process |
Cook anything |
Howdy, Neighbor |
Take a picture with anyone |
Very Good Friends |
Take a picture with Tophat |
Visiting Hours: Dance Hall |
Visit the Dance Hall |
Visiting Hours: Dye Shop |
Visit Tuxedosam’s Shop |
Visiting Hours: Hello Kitty Cafe |
Visit the Hello Kitty Cafe |
Visiting Hours: Small Gift Big Smiles |
Visit My Melody’s Shop |
You Are Strong |
Craft something with the Resilience tag You can craft the Meditations on Resilience for this, and then just give it to him as a two-heart gift. |
The reward for these quests is friendship with Big Challenges.

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