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A Pokemon-focused content creator accidentally solved Resident Evil Requiem’s Final Puzzle, an obtusely difficult puzzle that hadn’t been cracked by the collective efforts of the community over the game’s first week.
Resident Evil Requiem launched on February 27, 2026, and by our account, is one of the best games the franchise has seen in years. While the main focus is obviously the interconnected story of Leon and Grace, that hasn’t been the story much of the community has been fixated on.
To achieve true 100% completion, a Final Puzzle stood in the way. This puzzle proved so convoluted, even reviewers with early access – like Gene Park of The Washington Post, who completed nine playthroughs – weren’t quite able to figure it out on their own.
Even when the game hit store shelves and millions jumped in, it still remained a head-scratching mystery. Internet sleuths were mulling over every detail, trying to figure it out, only for it to be solved in the most unlikely way possible.
A Pokemon-focused content creator by the name of Gengar Collects accidentally stumbled upon the solution. It happened thanks to a series of unbelievable events that even he admitted was “sheer dumb luck.”
“Sheer dumb luck” leads to solution for Resident Evil Requiem’s Final Puzzle
A week after Requiem came out, Gengar Collects appeared to be the first to have ticked the box for completing The Final Puzzle. “I don’t even know if it was how it was supposed to be done,” he said in a brief video showing proof of the completion.
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A follow-up hours later revealed how it happened. See, players had messing with all sorts of little details throughout the week. But there were just three main areas to focus on, all of which Gengar Collects accidentally stumbled through.
They remember “messing with toilets on [their] first run through,” but little did they know they had flushed the exact number of times – eight – in order to trigger a step in the puzzle’s solution.
Next, in the conveyor belt meat-grinder section of the game, when multiple zombies are swarming, and your innate reaction should be to kill them by any means, Gengar Collects didn’t shoot any of them. They claimed they were trying to “conserve” ammo, and thus, the meat grinder took care of the threats.
And finally, the puzzle solution also requires you to wait for 15 minutes in the meat processing plant. They did this in what they call a “slow gamer moment,” having taken “forever to realize all [they] needed to do was flip the lever to reverse the line.”
One comment on YouTube described it as pure luck, to which they agreed. “Sheer dumb luck is so well put for this.”
Since the initial completion, the method was verified by dataminers who spent “two days tirelessly working through” The Final Puzzle. Now, anyone is able to complete it by following the steps Gengar Collects miraculously happened to take.
- Wait 15 mins in the meat processing plant
- Kill all zombies in the area with the meat grinder, not by shooting or meleeing them to death yourself
- Visit the toilets in the restroom area and flush one toilet eight times
- Complete the game
- Start a new game save (you’ll have Marie’s Doll in your inventory)
- Input code sequence into DNA machine
This is the code: Sun Sun Star | Sun Moon Star | Sun Moon Sun | Moon Star Moon.
With that, you’ll be able to crack open the safe, complete The Final Puzzle, and tick off the last remaining challenge in Resident Evil Requiem.
