Level Three: THE HUNT

Level Three: THE HUNT is the third level of THE FINALS Easter Egg Hunt. It was activated on August 7, 2024 and currently remains unsolved.

History

After Tier 3 of Level 2 was solved on March 22, 2024 with the password "0v0aurum," it led to a page with the image "THE_FINALS_I_Want_to", depicting Nama Tama in black armor floating in space.

• The image is a reference to the Black Knight space debris.
• The filename "I_Want_to" is a reference to the 2008 film The X-Files: I Want to Believe
• The sequence "14 XX 0176 XX 0002 XX 23 XXX 0176 XX 0002 XXX" is hidden in the image. Some parts can be deciphered to arrive at a rough coordinates structure of "N XX ° XX 0002 XX W XXX ° XX 0002 XXX".
  • 14th letter = N
  • 23rd letter = W
  • 176 (ASCII) = °

Activation

On April 5, 2024, Rob Runesson provided the URL path "tfeeactivationlvl3" in the Easter Egg channel of THE FINALS official Discord for a new secret URL on THE FINALS official website: https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfeeactivationlvl3.

This page had the title "Activation Page - Level 3" and indicated that activation of the level comprised three parts:

• 1.0.0 - An image of a White Rabbit
• 2.0.0 - An 8-bit-style image of a Dolphin
• 2.4.0 - A gif of a Three-Headed Monkey that disappeared immediately when the page loaded

Below these images was a button labelled "Activate" which led to an additional new secret URL of THE FINALS official website: https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee_level3 where a password could be entered to activate Level 3 of the Easter Egg puzzle.

Two days later on April 7, easter egg hunters discovered letters spelling out the word "CETACEA" on tiles unique to the sunset variation of SYS$HORIZON. One player stepping on each tile triggered three dolphins to emerge from the water, solving the 2.0.0 easter egg.

Three days afterwards, the fifth and final WR (white rabbit) was found on Seoul. This finalized the theory already confirmed by Rob that the WR locations spelled out "S LIES". This solved the 1.0.0 easter egg.

On May 30, the first three-headed monkey was found on Monaco, and was followed by five more after hunters understood how to make the monkeys appear. Despite this, the final monkey required for the password remained undiscovered until July, when Rob published "THE_FINALS_Screenshot_034_2880x1620_L3AIM". Among other clues, the image featured the grid coordinates "B2 B4 E6 F4 G7 I3 I6" which lined up with each monkey found thus far. Searching in the "I6" square led to the discovery of the seventh three-headed monkey on July 19.

How exactly to interpret the three-headed monkey locations was unknown, until Rob published the image "THE_FINALS_Screenshot_035_2880x1620_WRD3HM" on July 23. The image included a considerable number of clues pointing to the number 19 and the rule of thirds. This, along with the image name (WR, Dolphins, 3HM) implied that 19 represented the password, and that it could be divided into three separate parts corresponding to each easter egg.

SLIES (5 letters), CETACEA (7 letters), and the 7 monkeys led to 5 + 7 + 7 = 19, which suggested each monkey corresponded to a specific letter to spell out a word. Two weeks later on August 7, the word "ASCONCE" was confirmed by Rob, and almost immediately combined with SLIES and CETACEA to form the password, "sliescetaceaasconce", by hunters.

Level Three

Inputting the password revealed a new landing page featuring a world map, five sets of geographic coordinates, and three "MW.AREA" headings each featuring three connected password inputs.

On August 31, 2024, Rob posted a gif named "MultiCo_2008" depicting an animated MultiCo logo. The word "Abishemu" was hidden via flashing letters in the corner of the gif.

MW.AREA #1

MMA1-C

MMA1-B

MMA1-A

MW.AREA #2

MMA2-C

MMA2-B

MMA2-A

MW.AREA #3

MMA3-C

MMA3-B

MMA3-A

Images

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  THE_FINALS_I_Want_to

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  The level three landing page

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  THE_FINALS_Screenshot_034_2880x1620_L3AIM

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  THE_FINALS_Screenshot_035_2880x1620_WRD3HM

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  The Level 3 Activation page, fully loaded with the three-headed monkey image no longer visible.

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  The Level 3 Activation page, partly loaded, and briefly showing the three-headed monkey.

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  MultiCo_2008.gif