The final stage of the secret quest in Work at a Pizza Place drops you into the time machine room with four golden trophies scattered around and four furnace slots built into the wall. Nothing tells you the order. The answer is on the big screen in front of you, where four emojis drift around like an old screensaver and bounce off the corners.
Quick answer: Watch which corner each emoji hits. Bottom right goes in furnace 1, top right in 2, top left in 3, and bottom left in 4. Then enter the day’s date as eight digits.
Corner-to-furnace mapping in the time machine room
Each emoji on the screen bounces around until it collides with one of the four corners. That corner is the whole puzzle. It is not the order the emojis appear, and it is not their position on screen at any given second, only the corner each one eventually hits.
| Corner hit | Furnace slot |
|---|---|
| Bottom right | 1 |
| Top right | 2 |
| Top left | 3 |
| Bottom left | 4 |
The furnaces run left to right along the wall, so slot 1 is the leftmost and slot 4 is the rightmost. Write the four results down before you start carrying statues around, because the emojis keep moving and you will lose track otherwise.
Which trophy matches each emoji
Only four emojis appear in a run, and they are pulled from the game’s existing trophy collection. Match each emoji to the trophy that depicts the same thing, not to anything on the screen’s colour or position.
| Emoji | Trophy in the room |
|---|---|
| Ladybug | Bug Finder Trophy |
| Cheese | Rat Trophy |
| Cake | 10th Anniversary Trophy (the gold “10”) |
| Chicken drumstick | 2019 Thanksgiving Trophy |
| Pizza slice | Pizza Delivery Vehicle Trophy |
The drumstick trophy is easy to mix up with a separate 2019 trophy sitting nearby, so check the shape of the statue itself before you carry it to a furnace.
How to place the trophies in the furnaces
Entering the time machine code
With all four statues in place, open the keypad on the wall and enter the current date as eight digits in month-day-year order. On September 22, 2026 that is 09222026. Type all eight digits and press Enter.
If the panel returns an error, the code is fine and your trophy order is wrong. Pull the statues back out, re-check the corners on the screen, reseat them, and enter the date again.
How to confirm the puzzle worked
A correct combination triggers a cutscene instead of an error. You are returned to the present day with a new objective on screen telling you to talk to Dued1, who admits he does not have the secret recipe. Credits then roll and the Recipe Retribution badge is awarded, along with the Replica Teleporter, Detective Figurine, and 2010 Telephone furniture.
The matching accessory, the Gear Hoarder Loadout Retribution Belt, is not handed to you here. Head back to the 2010 level in The Hunt: Roblox 20 hub, enter the pizza shop, and grab the statue sitting on the blue pizza base in the kitchen area.
If you have not reached the time machine room yet
The trophy puzzle is the last of three, and you can only start the chain after finishing the main event quest and its “You stole the secret recipe!” badge. Drive to the dock, take the boat to the island with Jordan’s broken hut, drop into the bunker, and enter 06212010 on the terminal to travel back.
From there you return the stolen recipe to Tony, then clear a memory game at the registers and a subtraction task in the kitchen where every ingredient starts at 99. The leftover numbers form the code for the hidden locker by the boxing station, which holds the vault key that gets you back to the time machine.
The event runs until September 28, 2026, so there is a window to come back and finish the trophy sequence if the earlier puzzles slow you down. Playing solo is the safer route, since the quest can stall and a rejoin resets your progress for the current run.
