Roblox High School is the 2016 stop on The Hunt: Roblox 20 timeline, and it hides a second quest behind the one most players already finished. The secret version reuses the same school, the same NPCs and the same graduation beats, but it will not start until your account has cleared the main track and the event hub has flipped the hidden layer on.
Quick answer: Earn the Time Travel Schoolpack badge, clear all 20 main years to unlock Year Infinity, then return to Roblox High School and talk to the secret quest NPC repeatedly until he asks you to find his missing keys.
What unlocks the Roblox High School secret quest
The secret layer of the anniversary event is gated hard. Nothing in the school responds to a fresh account, and a single unclaimed year reward is enough to keep the whole track invisible.
- Complete the main Roblox High School quest and hold the Time Travel Schoolpack badge.
- Finish all 20 historical quests, from Crossroads through Grow a Garden.
- Claim every year reward at the hub — a pending claim blocks progression.
- Unlock Year Infinity, the phase that switches the secret track on.
- Check the event hub for an active clue pointing back at the school.
Secret badge records can exist in a game’s database before the quest is playable. The hub clue is the real signal — if no clue points at Roblox High School for your account, the secret objective will not trigger no matter how many NPCs you talk to.
Clear the Time Travel Schoolpack quest first
This is the prerequisite, and it is a story mission rather than a score chase. Chuck has time-traveled in from 2016 and needs help graduating.
A Speed Coil, skateboard or vehicle cuts the relic hunt down considerably, since most of that stage is travel time between the monument, the beach and the field.
How to start the secret quest in Roblox High School
The secret route does not announce itself with a marker. You have to walk up to the secret quest NPC and talk to him repeatedly — keep re-opening the dialogue until the prompt finally triggers and he mentions his missing keys. Tracking down those keys is the opening objective, and nothing else in the school advances until they are found.
From there the checklist walks the same corridors as the main quest, with extra stops layered in. You visit Brian at the front desk, carry the list of classes back to Chuck, see the librarian, hunt down hidden messages, collect the Senior Chemistry textbook and hand it over, help Chuck through the math exam, check the results, clear history class to receive the metal detector, dig up three relics, hand the finished work to Brian, report back to Chuck and attend his graduation.
Hidden messages, the leaf piles and the four item slots
The hidden-message stage is the part that separates the secret route from the ordinary one, and it spills out of the building. A red leaf blower sits out in the dirt yard. Equipping it and clearing the autumn leaf piles across the yards, side alleys and street corners is what exposes the pieces of the puzzle.
A single pile near the brick wall covers wooden storm-cellar doors secured by two locks. Interact with the doors to open an Item Slots menu containing four insert buttons—each slot stays empty until you obtain the items indicated by the messages.
The numbered clues are scattered through the classrooms. An object on the Library front desk produces a message reading “1. A silenced souvenir.” The shelves of coloured bottles in the Science room trigger “3. A fatal 100 sips.” Each message is tied to a slot number, so note which clue you have and which you are still missing.
The Art room is the interactive one. A glowing blue box on a table offers a Take Paintbrush prompt, and with the brush equipped you can paint directly onto the blank easel canvases — one of which resolves into a clear blue key design once the right strokes are laid down.
A yellow banner reading “More guidance has arrived to provide additional clarity…” appears as you work through the search. Treat it as the quest nudging you toward the next clue rather than a reward notification.
How to confirm the secret badge registered
Completion is confirmed by the badge notification in-game, and then again at the hub. Every secret quest pays out two things: one exclusive accessory and one fragment. Completing an objective does not always hand you the reward automatically, so return to the event hub and make the claim there.
Check that the fragment actually incremented before you move on to another secret. The hub tracks quest state rather than showing a clean list of twenty fragments, so keeping your own running count is the reliable method. If a counter looks stalled, rejoining the event before replaying the route usually clears the sync problem.
Secret quest waves and the event deadline
There are 20 secret quests in total, and they are not all live at once. Roblox releases them five at a time, every other day from September 19, which is why the secret track can look half-empty even after Year Infinity opens.
| Wave | Expected date | New secrets | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wave 1 | September 19 | 5 | Released |
| Wave 2 | September 21 | 5 | Released |
| Wave 3 | September 23 | 5 | Expected |
| Wave 4 | September 25 | 5 | Expected |
The unlock hour for each wave remains unannounced, so use a new clue in your hub as the current signal instead of midnight in your timezone. Once September 28, 2026 at 17:00 UTC arrives, the event ends and all secret badges and accessories can no longer be obtained.
All 20 fragments are needed to open the final puzzle in the hub, and only the first 20 players to solve it receive the exclusive Dominus. Nineteen fragments leaves that puzzle as locked as zero. Even without the race, though, each secret you clear keeps its own accessory, so a partial run through the school and the other participating games still pays out.
