Shred the Secrets Phone Location & Room 3 Key — Items Guide

Room 3 — behind the shredders, on the floor next to the paper stacks by the lockers ("It was here the entire time"). You need the Room 3 key first to reach the Sketchy Coworker. Return the phone for the Let's keep this between us badge (17.7%). Community-reported reward: the Golden Shredder — see the secrets guide and golden shredder page for both theories.

Room 3 — inside one of the lockers. Open every locker until one unlocks; the playthrough that found it had skipped one locker initially. Awards Keymaster (17.4%). The key opens the closed-off area where you meet the Sketchy Coworker and start the phone quest. More Room 3 secrets: secrets page. Log it in the run tracker.

Room 4 — a glowing EXIT door tucked behind the paper stacks. No key needed: open it for the Tricked! badge (21.5%). It is a decoy, not an ending. Hit it on your Room 3→4 sweep — see secrets page for the full collectible route and run tracker to log it.

Install on any shredder for 2x cash, six stacks per pass, no cranking. Not a game pass. How you obtain it is disputed: (A) return the Sketchy Coworker's phone vs (B) upgrade the shredder branch — both Community-reported, neither officially confirmed. Full breakdown: golden shredder page. Related secrets: secrets page. Track your run: run tracker.

Room 6 cobweb room — in the current 12-room version the crowbar rests on the recycling bin on the Sketchy Coworker's upgrade counter (August 2026 footage); pre-update runs showed it glowing between the paper stacks, so check both if you play an older patch. Only the crowbar breaks the basement door planks — break every single one for Intruder (5.3%). Step-by-step: Intruder badge guide.

Room 5 side room — the golden, sparkling “secret document” waits on a metal table behind the door unlocked by the four hidden buttons between the paper columns (button positions vary between runs). It is the key item of Ending 1: the confidential file turns out to be a grocery list — pickles, cheese, milk, cat food, toilet paper — and the FBI arrives with a cat. That counts as escape. Deep dive: Secret file guide; full route: Ending 1 guide.

In the Room 6 cobweb room, grab the crowbar (current version: on the upgrade counter's recycling bin), break every plank on the boarded-up doorway (Intruder, 5.3%), drop to the basement, brew a 2-minute pot at the coffee machine for a shredding speed burst, then get the whole squad into the elevator cabin to ride out (Joy Ride, 8.4%). This is the route to Ending 2 — done as a full 4-player squad it earns Perfect Attendance (0.4%).

In Room 3, open every locker until one gives up the key (Keymaster, 17.4%), unlock the closed-off area and meet the Sketchy Coworker. His phone is on the floor behind the shredders by the lockers ("It was here the entire time") — see #sketchy-coworker-phone. Return it (17.7%) for Let's keep this between us. One community video links the return to the Golden Shredder; another links the Golden Shredder to upgrading the shredder line — both obtain routes are unverified. See the golden shredder page and secrets guide. Track with the run tracker.

In Room 5, a wall prompt reads "Find the hidden buttons in the room to unlock the secret document". Four buttons glow green between the paper-stack columns — clear every second column to reveal them. All four open the side room holding a golden document that turns out to be a grocery list (pickles, cheese, milk, cat food, toilet paper) plus a cat, which triggers Ending 1 (What?, 22.8%).

Two pure counter badges. Clear 20 cobwebs with the broom (Housekeeping, 10.4%) — most spawn in the Room 6 cobweb room and later rooms. Open 20 filing cabinets (Nosy Coworker, 28.3%) — the cabinets cluster in Room 3 and hold no loot, they are pure counters. Whether the counter is cumulative across runs or resets per run is unconfirmed.

A glowing EXIT door tucked behind the paper stacks in Room 4. No key needed — open it and you get the Tricked! badge (21.5%). It is a decoy, not an ending.

Badge text: "You weren't supposed to see that" (9.2%). No guide or video transcript has documented the trigger or the location. Community suspicion points to a hidden readable document, with the basement as the prime suspect — UNCONFIRMED. Location: STILL UNKNOWN.