Halloween: The Game – Chapter 1 Challenge 5 Guide

Challenge 5 in Chapter 1 of Halloween: The Game is one of the fastest optional objectives in the campaign, and it is also one of the easiest to lock yourself out of. It asks for a single thrown kill, and the weapon you need is sitting a few steps inside the first building you break into.

Quick answer: Enter the Rabbit in Red, turn into the kitchen on the left, pick the Throwing Cleaver off the counter, then hold right-click to aim and left-click to bury it in any target. The banner reads “CHALLENGE 5 COMPLETE” the moment that target dies.

Challenge 5 conditions and reward in Chapter 1

The wording in the challenge list is deliberately loose. It does not name a victim, so the bikers, the bartender, and any resident in the bar all count. What it does demand is that the cleaver is thrown, not swung.

Detail	Specifics
Condition	Kill any target with a Throwing Cleaver
Chapter	Chapter 1 — The Road To Haddonfield
Weapon location	Kitchen counter inside the Rabbit in Red
Valid targets	Any target, including bikers and the bartender
Reward	Toby’s jacket cosmetic
Retryable	Yes, by replaying the chapter

Where to find the Throwing Cleaver

The reliable spawn is the pub kitchen. Once the door to the Rabbit in Red opens, the kitchen is immediately to your left, and the cleaver rests on a counter in plain sight. Interacting with it prints “Inventory Item Added” and drops whatever you were holding, which is usually the Broken Bottle from the parking lot fight.

Cleavers can also turn up later in the chapter, around the gas station and in the houses along Copper Lane, but those spawns shift between saves. Treat the kitchen as the guaranteed option and the street houses as a backup if you have already pushed past the bar.

Note: Chapter 1 challenges tied to the Rabbit in Red stop being available once you leave the building and the chase objective takes over. If you walk out without a thrown kill, restart the chapter rather than hunting for a cleaver outside.

How to land the thrown cleaver kill

Deal with the two bikers outside before opening the door. One of them throws a glass bottle that you can pick up and use as a melee weapon, which keeps you from wasting the cleaver on the opening scuffle.

Michael swings a dropped Broken Bottle at bikers as the Melee Combat tutorial panel sits on screen — The Broken Bottle picked up during the opening fight handles the bikers without touching the cleaver. Image: Illfonic

Push through the front door and head straight for the kitchen on the left. Grab the cleaver from the counter before the bikers inside close in on you, because fighting with an empty inventory is far worse than being a few seconds late.

Pick a target from the group working toward you under the “KILL THE REST OF THE BIKERS” objective. A white diamond marker sits over each one, so line up whichever is closest to a clear firing line.

The objective to kill the rest of the bikers on screen with two marked bikers closing in — Marked bikers inside the Rabbit in Red all count as valid targets for the challenge. Image: Illfonic

Hold right-click to bring the cleaver up into an aimed throw, then left-click to release it. A head hit is the cleanest way to finish a biker outright, and the challenge fires the instant the target goes down.

How to confirm the challenge registered

You get a clear on-screen confirmation. The “CHALLENGE 5” prompt swaps to “CHALLENGE 5 COMPLETE”, and the Toby’s jacket unlock appears alongside it. Completion is recorded at that moment, so what happens next in the fight does not matter.

That is worth repeating, because the bar fight often goes badly right after the throw. If the remaining bikers drop you and you get the “GAME OVER” screen with “MICHAEL WAS DOWNED”, the challenge stays completed. You can restart from the last checkpoint or return to the main menu without losing it.

Michael Myers in a bloodied hospital gown during the Rabbit in Red sequence in Chapter 1

Why the thrown cleaver kill fails to count

There are only a few ways this one goes wrong, and all of them come down to how the killing blow lands.

You used the cleaver as a melee weapon. Light and heavy attacks with it in hand do not satisfy the condition.
The throw only wounded the target and something else finished them, such as a follow-up punch or an execution.
You left the Rabbit in Red without the kill, which closes out the bar-bound challenges for that run.
You never picked the cleaver up, because entering with a weapon already equipped makes the counter easy to walk past.

The game’s melee combat tutorial nudges you toward light and heavy attack combos plus Shoves to interrupt and stagger targets. That advice is fine for clearing the room, but keep it separate from this challenge. Shove a biker to create space, then throw.

The Melee Combat tutorial overlay describing light and heavy attack combos and Shoves — The Melee Combat prompt explains attack combos and Shoves, neither of which completes Challenge 5. Image: Illfonic

Chapter 1 can be replayed freely, so there is no reason to chase all six of its challenges in a single run. A dedicated attempt that opens the door, grabs the cleaver, throws it, and lets Michael get downed afterward takes under a minute and still banks the Toby’s jacket.