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Shred the Secrets Cooking the Books Badge: How to Get It (0.7% Earn Rate)

Cooking the Books in Shred the Secrets: earn $10,000,000 across all runs. Earn rate 0.7%, 4,901 awarded — progress tracking, grind tips and sources.

Last updated: 2026-08-12

Quick answer

Cooking the Books is a milestone badge in Shred the Secrets with the official description: "Earn $10,000,000 across all runs." It is one of the rarest grind badges in the game — only 0.7% of players have earned it (4,901 awarded at last check). Two things make it less scary than it sounds: the $10M is cumulative across every run you ever play, not a single-run target, and the badge menu tracks your exact progress (the in-game details panel shows a counter like "$9.27k / $10m"). In the badge menu it sits in the four-star difficulty tier alongside Exceeded Expectations. Like every badge, it is cosmetic — community badge guides confirm badges give no money or ability bonuses, they just display above your avatar when equipped. Full badge list with earn rates: badge database.

Shred the Secrets badge menu showing the Cooking the Books badge details panel with the requirement Earn $10,000,000 across all runs and a locked progress bar
The badge details panel tracks your lifetime cash counter toward $10M — this player was at $9.27k.

How to get Cooking the Books

  1. 1

    Play runs and earn cash as usual — shredding paper stacks and clearing rooms. Every dollar goes onto a lifetime counter: the official requirement is "across all runs", so failed runs still count.

  2. 2

    Each room has a $1,000,000 cash goal shown on the top progress bar, so $10M is roughly ten rooms' worth of goal cash — expect this badge to take more than one full run.

  3. 3

    Check your exact progress any time at the badge station: open the badge menu and select Cooking the Books to see a counter like "$9.27k / $10m".

  4. 4

    The badge unlocks automatically the moment your lifetime total reaches $10,000,000 — nothing else needs to be done in that run.

  5. 5

    Optional: equip it at the badge station to show it above your avatar. Badges are cosmetic only, per community badge guides.

Shred the Secrets gameplay with the cash counter at $57,186 and the room goal bar at $456,686 of $1,000,000 while grabbing a paper stack in room 5
Grabbing stacks in Room 5: the top bar tracks the room's $1M goal, the bottom-left counter is your spendable cash.
player facing a wall of stacked paper in Shred the Secrets with $62,334 cash and the room goal bar past $600,334 of $1,000,000
Late in a room the paper piles stack into walls — every stack shredded pushes both the room goal and your lifetime $10M counter.
how cash accumulates in Shred the Secrets shown by a $75,624 counter next to towering paper stacks with the grab prompt on screen
One run's earnings in this footage passed $75,000 — Cooking the Books needs that many times over, across every run you play.

Related badges and tools

Badge database

Database

All 27 badges with earn rates, categories and official descriptions — see where Cooking the Books ranks. Open Badge database.

Exceeded Expectations

Guide

The other four-star grind badge in the same tier — max every upgrade in a single run. Open Exceeded Expectations.

Buzzer Beater

Guide

The speed counterpart to this grind badge — finish a run in under 45 minutes. Open Buzzer Beater.

Run Tracker

Tool

Log your runs and cash milestones while you grind toward the $10M lifetime total. Open Run Tracker.

Route Planner

Tool

Plan efficient room clears — faster $1M room goals mean faster lifetime cash. Open Route Planner.

Cooking the Books FAQ

Sources and credits

Hard facts (official description, 0.7% earn rate, 4,901 awarded) come from the game's official badge data. Gameplay details were cross-checked against two community badge guides: Radex Tips — ALL BADGES GUIDE (four-star category, badges are cosmetic) and Vorzy Brookhaven — How To Get ALL BADGES (requirement read aloud). Screenshots on this page come from Vorzy Brookhaven's badge guide (badge details panel) and Mediastic — Shred the Secrets, All Endings (cash grind footage at 0:12, 2:30 and 3:05). Community claims are marked as such; anything we could not verify is flagged in the FAQ.