Skulls are easter eggs in Halo 3 designed to make the game more challenging or interesting.
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List of Silver Skulls
Blind
Level: Sierra 117[1]
Directions: In the beginning of the level, you and your troops will come across a waterfall with a phantom dropping off troops. Kill all of the enemy troops to get them out of the way, and move to the right of the area. There is a rocky outcrop, and one of the larger rocks extends into the water. The blind skull is at the tip of the rock.There is also a second blind skull on the level Cortana but no bonus is gained for capturing both skulls.
Icon: A skull marked with an eye with a crossed out pupil. Also, the skull’s eyes are shaded white.
Effect: Your HUD and weapon are no longer visible.
Grunt Birthday Party
Level: Crow's Nest[1]
Directions: You will come to a part where you drop down into a tunnel, and as soon as you land, Keyes will send you a message. There will be drones in the corridor coming out of side tunnels. Go to the end of the tunnel and slowly approach the ledge. If you look down over the ledge BEFORE falling, you will see a small green platform with an arrow pointing in. Face back where you came in the corridor, and slowly back away until you drop off the edge. The second you start to drop, start moving forward. If done correctly, you should just barely "grab" the ledge and since you SHOULD already be moving forward, it will walk you into the tunnel with the skull. If it still doesn't make sense as far as where, you can look down through the end of the corridor at the floor you're standing on before you drop down, and you can vaguely see another room underneath the grating under your feet. At the end of the hallway you drop into, there should be the Grunt Birthday skull
Note: If walking backwards off the edge does not work for you, take a gravity lift and use it to propel yourself back up to the room underneath the grating after you have jumped down off the edge. Sometimes the skull is not there, this is most likely due to an unknown glitch.
Icon: A skull marked with a candle.
Effect: If a Grunt is shot in the head with any gun confetti explodes out of it (the explosion causes minor damage to nearby enemies), and children cheering are heard in the background.
Cowbell
Directions: Method A: After defeating the Scarab, grab a gravity lift from the small structure in the center, then continue on until you pass the room with a lot of explosive plasma containers. In the hallway after this room, there is a tall section with openings above the turning point of the hall, and the skull is in the top one of the highest of these. Use the gravity lift to get there (place the lift around the middle of the ramp, or place at the bottom of the ramp and use a brute shot jump for extra height). If your grav lift is destroyed, you can always revert to last save since the room containing the skull is a checkpoint. If you dont get the skull at first then keep trying u will get it eventually
Directions: Method B: If you are having too much trouble placing the grav lift, it is possible to drive a Brute Chopper into the building (there's one inside the small structure where you battle the Scarab). You can then drive the Chopper to the bottom of the ramp, stand on top of it, look down, and deploy the Grav lift. You can then easily walk right into the opening with the skull.
Directions: Method C: If you are playing on Co-Op, both of the players grap a Grav lift, and place one on top of the other.
Note: You should always couple this skull with the Grunt Birthday Party skull for maximum damage when encountering large numbers of Grunts.
Icon: A skull marked with a cowbell.
Effect: The force of explosions is increased immensely.
IWHBYD
Level: The Covenant
Directions: After the Arbiter kills the Prophet of Truth, kill all of the Flood in the entire area between Truth's body and the elevator that you came up on. Jump through the rings in the following order: 4, 6, 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, with "1" being the ring closest to the elevator and "7" being the ring closest to Truth's body. If done correctly, the rings should all flash in a chasing pattern, and the skull will appear on the small bridge leading to the platform with Truth's body. It takes about 5 seconds for the rings to flash.
Note: Some people report you MUST have completed the campaign, however people are claiming to have found it both before and after. In some cases you may need to complete the level after getting the skull to unlock it, unlike with the others. This is speculation, however. After getting the skull check in the level selection lobby whether it is unlocked or not. If not, reload your last checkpoint, get the skull again, and finish the level.
For more information, see: Halo 3: IWHBYD (I Would Have Been Your Daddy) Skull
Note You can only spawn it after killing the prophet of truth.
Icon: A skull marked with a double helix (DNA Symbol).
Effect: Unlocks new, often humorous, dialogue for the AI.
Silver Skulls Video
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Trivia
- "IWHBYD" stands for "I Would Have Been Your Daddy", after a Sergeant Johnson quote from Halo: Combat Evolved.
- People originally thought that you needed to jump through almost two dozen rings to get the IWHBYD skull to spawn. Later however, people found out that only the last 7 rings are what mattered.
- "I would have been your daddy" is also the name of the first checkpoint in the "Assault of the control room" level in Halo 1.