GOOOOOO STAMP RALLY! As a fellow stamp enthusiast, why just collect stamps when you can collect stamps in a specific order? Isn't that some stamp-tacular idea? Yes? Let's doooo this!
Okay... So, in Echoes of Wisdom you get five stamp cards to fill, where each of them has five slots for stamps. And there exist five different stamp designs in the game, where each design has five designated stamp stands in the world. The game remembers which stamp was put in which slot, meaning that the stamp cards will look different at the end for a number of players.
Knowing this, you can plan ahead and fill out the cards in an order of your liking. And that's what I did when I was recently replaying the game. There are very different approaches you can take here, but if you want some order to your order, then you will either go for five different stamps on each card or five of the same stamps. Let's talk a little bit about this...
In case you're going for five different stamps per card, then you may want to keep the same order for every card, where you may even want a specific order for that. The above is how the five stamp designs are ordered internally, which somewhat follows the Rupee colors: green, blue, purple and gold. But there is this brown/orange color thrown into it at the fourth spot.
You may also choose a sequence based on the imagery. The Stamp Guys parachutes in with the purple stamp, then he lands with the golden stamp, focuses on blue, jumps on green, and does some crazy fast ninja moves on brown. Or you could just go with a different order on all the cards, where every color gets into each number exactly once.
Anyway, I went with the other method, which is grouping all of the same stamps on one card. Here you can even use the color of the path as an indicator for what stamp design to pick for what card, which looks really good on the Thrilling, Exhilarating and Final Stamp Cards:
It's not as great with the first two, however, where I used the brown for the Exciting Stamp Card. It may also go well with the first, but the first stamp stand I came across was a purple one at the southeast edge of the Gerudo Desert and I just went with it, before making a real plan.
Anyway, this schema prevents you from getting the Fairy Bottle before the game's second half, because one of the brown stamp stands is the one swallowed by a rift at the top of the Hebra Mountains. And that doesn't happen any earlier. Well, it's not like you desperately need it, but keep that in mind.
Otherwise, this isn't really a "challenge", because all you need to know is where to find all the stamp stands and what stand has what color. I have followed a helpful topic by Jacien on GameFAQs for that, but I have also crafted my own shiny map for your convenience:
The given numbers reflect the internal order (green, blue, purple, brown, gold), just in case you're color-blind. Happy stamping!
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