“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
The burrw gif is the first and currently only definitive Diamond Clue to have been found and identified. Various conversations between Easter egg hunters (H), 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 (H): "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 (H): "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 (H): "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 patterns in these messages, including use of the words "burrow" and "warren", references to Alice in Wonderland, and lots of words lacking a letter O. In addition, Rob's "Trigant" mention likely referred to American psychologist Trigant Burrow.
Dusty's use of the number 47 (ASCII value for the slash character) and Rob's "clue_93" gif suggested that a URL could be found. A few hours later, hunter Resk came up with the correct URL: reachthefinals.com/burrw based on "burrow" and the theme of removing the letter O.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag and claimed to own "over 200 domains."[1]