“Diamond Clues contains the solution to the FINAL level... they are extremely hard and complex... ._.”Rob
Diamond Clues are a series of clues that tie into the solution to the final level of THE FINALS Easter Egg Hunt.
Burrw
Various chat messages between Easter egg hunters, Embark Studios CX Lead Dusty Gustafsson, and Embark CCO Rob Runesson provided clues to a hidden URL on the official THE FINALS website.
- December 19, 2022
- Dusty: "This clue set is bigger and more connected than Cowslip/s warren!"
- Rob: "Hpe they dn't get snared by the wrng rabbit… ._."
- January 24, 2023
- Fish: "I'll be heading off now, but I hope you guys get it!"
- Rob: "And I hope you don’t go to deep down the old burrow with a transistor radio…"
- January 30, 2023
- eoin: "rob is a rising star now?"
- Rob: "Yes, I need to earn my colors, Dusty has zero faith in me... ._."
- Dusty: "Rob has zero respect for the rules of my role bot, so he has been demoted to rising star. One mre slip up and he's getting contestant'd"
- Spear: "Rob is now yellow and it's messing with my brain"
- Rob: "@Embark | Dusty we don't want to mess with anyones brain, would we..?"
- Dusty: "Rob will stay yellow until he helps you all tunnel out of this mess. He has given you 47 to many clues and thoroughly confused you. He's a bit of a mad hatter if you ask me."
- Rob: "Wait what.?! Hmm, not sure I can send them down the mad warren of Alice in Wonderland again. Not even Trigant would be able to handle that.!"
- Rob: "
" (Clue_93.gif)
Hunters noticed a pattern in these messages, including the word "burrow" and other words lacking a letter o.
Hunter Flex4d quickly recognized that the "Trigant" mention in Rob's message was a reference to Trigant Burrow. Hunter Serpenger noticed the peculiar filename, "clue_93." Hunter Fish recognized that the format of this clue would be a URL beginning with "reachthefinals.com/b-" and mentioned that "my first instinct was .com/burrow." A few hours later, hunter Resk entered the correct URL, reachthefinals.com/burrw and shared it with the rest of the hunters.
The page contained a gif named "burrw" that depicts oval-shaped rings of red light pulsating outwards at a consistent frequency.
“Congratulation, you found your first diamond clue in this EE-hunt.!
(Diamond clues are rare and pretty hard to find so you should be proud, I think this one was originally activated late November last year... ._.)”Rob
The string "YMF292" is hidden among the rings in frames 1-6. This is a reference to the YMF292 chip that is used in Sega Saturn and Sega Titan consoles.
In January 2024, Rob sent a new message in reference to the burrw gif, hinting that more can be found in it.
“Almost forgot about that one, still only solved to 50%… ._.”Rob
In February, Rob shared a snippet from a higher quality version of the gif with the number 7 in the center, along with a message suggesting that the alternate version could be found somewhere.
“ohh, have you only found the lowres gif... I wonder where the higres is...”Rob