⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major story and gameplay spoilers for Resident Evil Requiem. Proceed with caution if you haven’t finished the game.
TL;DR: Resident Evil Requiem’s most complex hidden challenge — The Final Puzzle — was accidentally cracked on March 2, 2026 by Pokémon content creator Gengar Collects, who stumbled through three of the required steps through pure luck: waiting 15 minutes in the meat processing plant, not shooting zombies near the conveyor belt, and flushing a toilet exactly eight times. The reward is 20,000 CP and an unlocked safe. Dataminers and YouTubers Rantsycancy and Kyro have since verified and filled in the full intended solution, which requires decoding RNA codons to celestial distances, obtaining Marie’s Doll, and entering the code Sun Sun Star | Sun Moon Star | Sun Moon Sun | Moon Star Moon while carrying Emily. Full step-by-step walkthrough below.
Resident Evil Requiem launched on February 27, 2026, to widespread acclaim — a dual-protagonist survival horror that’s already drawing comparisons to the franchise’s all-time greats. But for the community’s most dedicated players, the main story is only half the conversation. Buried inside the game is a challenge so deliberately obscure that even a Washington Post reviewer with nine completed playthroughs under his belt couldn’t crack it. Capcom called it The Final Puzzle, and for five days, it defeated everyone.
Then a Pokémon YouTuber stumbled through it by accident.
What Is The Final Puzzle?
The Final Puzzle is a hidden challenge that only appears upon beating the game for the first time. The rather cryptic clue describing how to solve it simply states: “Let the sweet pair hear the voice.” Once completed, The Final Puzzle rewards you with 20,000 challenge points (CP) used to purchase new weapons and upgrades.
The puzzle requires players to pick up a Severed Hand from the floor after Grace’s escape from the Care Center Basement, analyze it using one of the game’s two Laser Microscopes, and then decode a chain of clues that spans the entire game — from RNA sequences to astronomical distances to a child’s doll that most players will walk right past.
The challenge’s description is simply “Let the sweet pair hear the voice,” and fans discovered the use for the Severed Hand in the blood analyzer machine, which yields a message saying “Let’s play” along with a string of letters — GGC AAG AUA ACG UGU CAU — a DNA sequence where each codon corresponds to a celestial body: Sun, Moon, or Star.
How those codons map to symbols is the puzzle within the puzzle. Community investigators determined that G = Sun (150,000,000 miles — the distance to the Sun), U = Moon (380,000 kilometers — the distance to the Moon), and C = Star (4.2 light years — the distance to the nearest star other than the Sun). The letter A is an outlier, and players discovered it should be ignored entirely — confirmed by kicking the head of a Toy Uncle Bobblehead from Resident Evil 3 through a basketball hoop after Leon’s fight with the Tyrant.
How a Pokémon Collector Accidentally Cracked It
Enter Gengar Collects — a Pokémon-focused content creator with no particular background in Resident Evil speedrunning or puzzle hunting. On March 2, 2026, five days after the game launched, they posted a short video claiming to be the first person in the world to complete The Final Puzzle. There was one problem: they had no idea how they’d done it.
To solve it, Gengar Collects had to acquire the Marie’s Doll item and have it in their inventory, which you can only do by filling up the meat-packing area with zombie bodies by waiting there for 15 minutes as it drops bodies into a vat.
That 15-minute wait was entirely unintentional. Gengar Collects described it as a “slow gamer moment,” having taken forever to realize that all they needed to do was flip a lever to reverse the conveyor line.
The second accidental step came from ammo conservation instincts: in the conveyor belt section where zombies swarm from all sides, Gengar Collects held fire — letting the meat grinder eliminate the threats rather than burning bullets. The third was equally random: while messing around during an early run, they flushed a toilet exactly eight times. They had no idea any of this mattered.
Given the solution and steps involved, the odds of completing all three triggers accidentally must be astronomical. You need to go through a series of abstract and almost illogical steps — waiting 15 minutes in the meat processing section, not killing zombies in the conveyor belt survival section, flushing a toilet eight times, and more.
The Community Fills in the Blanks
Gengar Collects’ video lit a fuse. From there, enthusiastic players created The Final Puzzle subreddit, with the aim of sharing info, debunking theories, and delving deeper into the mystery. A community of dataminers spent two days tirelessly working through the puzzle to verify the steps and fill in the full intended solution.
YouTubers Rantsycancy and Kyro are credited as the first people in the world to figure out the complete intended method — verifying and expanding on what Gengar Collects had accidentally stumbled through.
The Complete Final Puzzle Solution (Step-by-Step)
Here is the full verified walkthrough, compiled from the work of Gengar Collects, Rantsycancy, Kyro, and the datamining community:
Step 1 — Get Marie’s Doll (First Playthrough)
In the Care Center Basement, reach the Processing area with the bloody pool. Do not drain the blood. Wait at least 15 minutes — this triggers the flag that determines the number of corpses in the pool and causes Marie’s Doll to spawn in the correct location. While waiting, let the conveyor belt zombies be taken by the meat grinder; do not shoot or melee them yourself. Visit the restroom area and flush one toilet exactly eight times. After escaping the Care Center, Marie’s Doll will appear. Place it in an item box before leaving — you cannot return to this area.
Step 2 — Decode the Severed Hand (Second Playthrough)
After escaping the Care Center Basement, pick up the Severed Hand from the floor near the elevator. Take it to the Blood Lab and analyze it in the Laser Microscope. The message “Let’s Play” appears, along with the sequence GGC AAG AUA ACG UGU CAU. Decode the codons using the astronomical distances hidden throughout the game to get your Sun/Moon/Star sequence.
Step 3 — Enter the Code
With Marie’s Doll in your inventory from the item box and Emily in your arms, go to the DNA machine in the Lead Researcher’s Office. Enter the following code:
Sun Sun Star | Sun Moon Star | Sun Moon Sun | Moon Star Moon
A child’s laugh plays. A prompt confirms: “Congratulations! You let the sweet pair hear the voice. Please check Challenges.”
Complete the game. The safe unlocks, The Final Puzzle registers as complete, and 20,000 CP is added to your balance.
Why This Story Is Perfect
The odds of a Pokémon collector stumbling through three separate hidden triggers — each requiring a specific, counter-intuitive action the game never signals — are genuinely staggering. Flushing a toilet eight times. Standing still for 15 minutes. Holstering a weapon when every survival instinct says otherwise. Any one of those alone would be a remarkable coincidence. All three together, in a single playthrough, without knowing any of them mattered?
One commenter on Gengar Collects’ follow-up video summed it up perfectly: pure luck. “Sheer dumb luck is so well put for this,” Gengar Collects agreed.
Capcom hasn’t commented on the solution — or confirmed whether the full intended method of discovery has been found. Given that the community is still debating whether the Hourglass, Nico’s sandwich shop, and Grace’s death animations at the hands of The Girl (revealed to be a horrifically mutated Marie) are part of the puzzle’s lore, there may be even more secrets still waiting. For now, though, the challenge can finally be completed — accidentally or otherwise.
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