School map
All five keys
Five keys open the exit. Every guide that gives you a location list is guessing, because the game re-hides them each round — so this page is about how to search instead of where to look.
- White KeyRandom backpack
- Yellow KeyRandom backpack
- Green KeyRandom backpack
- Pink KeyRandom backpack
- Red KeyRandom backpack
How the hiding actually works
Keys live in backpacks — the book bags scattered through the school. Two sit in most rooms. Open one and it is either a key or it is nothing, and a bag you have already searched stops glowing so you will not waste a second pass on it.
The assignment is re-rolled every round. This is why no two walkthrough videos agree on where anything was, and why a fixed map of key positions cannot exist for this game — one of several things we have decided not to publish rather than guess at.
If you die holding keys, you drop them where you fell rather than losing them. Someone else can pick them up, which is the whole reason a full lobby beats a solo run.
Rooms with backpacks worth searching
- Classroom
- Cafeteria
- Library
- Gymnasium
- Bathroom
- Kitchen
- Office
- Auditorium
The lockers are not on this list and never will be — “Look in the lockers. You can’t open the lockers.”
Mines does not use keys at all
The second chapter replaces the key hunt with a mining chain — pickaxe, coal, furnace, then explosives. A guide that tells you Mines needs five keys has copied the school chapter across without playing it.