This challenge was born because I wanted an interesting, but not ridiculously difficult set of rules for a legacy-style challenge.

With each generation, you try to complete three goals with your heir. The goals are all linked to the 4 careers mentioned in the title. You will need Open for Business and FreeTime to complete this challenge. You can either use your founder/CAS-made Sim as your Tinker (so you're challenge lasts for 4 generations) or your first generation can be normal gameplay, and your first heir is your Tinker (meaning that your challenge lasts for 5.) The generations must be played in the correct order, of course!

Generation	Career	Goal 1	Goal 2	Goal 3
1 (or 2)	Tinker	Max out Tinkering enthusiasm	Max out Mechanical skill	Earn a gold Robotics talent badge
2 (or 3)	Tailor	Max out Arts & Crafts enthusiasm	Max out Creativity skill	Earn a gold Sewing talent badge
3 (or 4)	Soldier	Reach the top of the Military career	Max out Athletic skill	Max out Mechanical skill
4 (or 5)	Spy	Reach the top of the Intelligence career	Max out Logic skill	Max out Cleaning skill

Your Tinker and Tailor are not allowed to have jobs, and must earn money using their skills. Their spouses (and non-heir children) are allowed to have any job they like (as can the spouses/non-heir children of your Soldier and Spy.)

Obviously, you are not allowed to use cheats during this challenge, but any other rules go. You can have as many kids as you like per generation (but you can only pick one heir per generation to become your Tinker/Tailor/Soldier/Spy.) You can have alien pregnancies and supernatural Sims. This challenge is designed as a way to direct your legacy if you want some simple rules and a bit of direction, without constantly having to think about rule-breaking and meeting loads of requirements.

Hopefully these rules are clear, but feel free to leave any questions you may have and I'll answer them as soon as I can.

Love the sound of this, will give it a go! And I'll admit I got excited by the title (I love love love the movie xD)

Ha, this sounds fun! I actually have a teen spare with Tinkering OTH that I had no idea what to do with next, and this sounds like the perfect idea to implement as a legacy mini-challenge for him.

Wow this sounds like a lot of fun. I've never been able to complete a full legacy challenge so maybe this will be the perfect size for me.

I love the sound of this, defiantly giving it a go!

I was thinking to start over and mini legacy challenge like this one will be perfect

Thank you This is perfect. I never finish legacies (too boring) I'll give this a try

Sounds like "The Westing game" to me

How? There's no puzzles to solve and no underlying goal of forging connections among the heirs.

Hmmm...I wonder if you could make a Westing Game style challenge, though? (If this encourages anybody to read the book, which is by Ellen Raskin and will be found in the children's room of your public library and which is an amazing mind-bender of a book with a heroine named Turtle, then my work here is well done.)

Peni:
Love the "Westing Game". So many twists and turns. Everyone looks guilty. This OFB challenge may be just the right thing to integrate into the Test of Time challenge to give some interest to the Renaissance Era. I may actually get to that age cause I "cheated" and reduced my legacy to two generations per historic era.

The Westing Game is more about the special skills that make their interactions possible, more so than the people themselves (What I found, at least.). The mix in personalities was more engaging then the story at first. Imagine if the charectors has simelar, boring, office careers - I wouldn't have read the whole thing.