Signal → what to do
- Hear a quiet giggle in the room? Giggle is somewhere on the ceiling, so look up.
- A pinkish-gray ball with 4 tentacles is hanging from the ceiling. Give it a wide berth.
- Giggle is hanging above the door, so you can’t go around it. Stun it first.
- All the sounds suddenly turn muffled and echoey? Giggle is already on your face, and its attack is underway.
- A low, slowed-down laugh isn’t Giggle. It’s Grumble, a much more serious grown-up version.
How to get through a room with Giggle
The best attack from Giggle is the one that never happens. It only drops when you walk underneath it, so check the ceiling first.
What to do when you hear a laugh. 1. Stop and look for it on the ceiling. 2. If you can go around it, stick to the edge of the room. 3. If it’s hanging above a door or passage, shine a Flashlight, Bulklight, Laser Pointer, or Shakelight at it. Straplight won’t work. 4. If you don’t have a light, throw a Glowstick at it. 5. While it covers its eyes with a tentacle, run underneath. It’ll wake up after a few seconds and be able to attack again.
If Giggle does fall on you, you can’t remove it on your own. Your character will try to shake it off, and you have to wait until it’s done biting. The fall deals 10 damage, and each bite deals 7, for up to 3 bites. A friend can stop the attack by interacting with Giggle on your face. It’ll let go and disappear.
Where Giggle lives
Giggles live in The Mines. You can run into them starting at door 101, and they’re most often hanging around doors 101–110. They become rare or disappear completely as you get closer to minibosses and bosses.
There are no Giggles in The Hotel unless their Modifiers are turned on. Then they appear in every room, even during Seek chases and in the Halt hallway. You can see where they come from at door 152: egg-like Giggle cocoons are in a special side room with an entrance to The Stairwell.
Using a Crucifix on Giggle
The Crucifix works on Giggle: it pins it to the ground and banishes it, earning you the Not Funny badge. Since The Great Outdoors Update, its tentacles tear off when it’s banished, then grow back during the animation. Still, I wouldn’t waste a Crucifix on Giggle. It deals up to 31 damage, and I save my Crucifix in The Mines for scarier entities.
Giggle in other modes
In RANKED MODE, Giggles appear in every type of room except Room 0. They deal 15 damage when they fall and 10 per bite, bite up to twice, and deal up to 35 damage per attack without a friend’s help. In BATTLE MODE, you can also find them anywhere except Room 0. There, the fall deals 21 damage, for up to 35 damage per attack.
Two Modifiers change the rules. With No Laughing Matter, Giggles don’t giggle and can appear anywhere, so their main warning signal is gone. With Dripped Out, they wear glasses, so light won’t blind them, but you can still hit them with an item. Keep Glowsticks close in these runs.
How players lose health to Giggle
- Running through The Mines without looking up. Giggle drops on anyone who walks underneath it.
- Shining a Straplight at it. That doesn’t affect Giggle. You need a handheld Flashlight, Bulklight, Laser Pointer, or Shakelight.
- Relaxing after stunning it. It’ll be ready to attack again after a few seconds.
- Forgetting about Screech during the attack. While Giggle is on your face, you can barely see or hear, so it’s easy to miss Screech. Watch for it during and right after the attack.
- Standing nearby while Giggle bites a friend. Walk up and remove it. The attack will stop, and you’ll get a badge.
A baby Grumble
Giggles are immature Grumbles with sensitive eyes that can’t stay quiet. That’s what the death messages from Moonlight say. Giggle, Grumble, Screech, and Gloombats are the only entities confirmed to be separate species.
One theory says that Giggle matures in a cocoon and becomes an adult Grumble, but the full life cycle hasn’t been confirmed unconfirmed. Another theory links it to Screech. The Journal hints that Screech might be a Giggle, or its adult stage infected by Seek’s slime unconfirmed. They definitely look alike: round bodies, wide smiles, and tentacles.
How to knock Giggle down and stun it
Giggle has two weak spots: its eyes and its body. Shine light at its eyes, and hit its body.
Blind it with a Flashlight, Bulklight, Shakelight, or Laser Pointer. A stunned Giggle screams or squeals and covers its eyes with its upper-left tentacle.
Hit it with almost anything you can throw. Glowsticks, Paper Planes, Rift Jars, Pocket Mirrors, Honey Pots, Gold Blaster, and bombs all work. Knockbombs, banana peels, throwable items, Ransom road signs, boxing gloves, and Knockback Sticks work too.
My pick is the Glowstick. It gives off light and can be thrown, and hitting Giggle with it stuns the entity. With the Vacuum Sealed Modifier, you can even toss Giggle’s body into the room’s vacuum.
Giggle and Figure
Giggle’s laugh can attract Figure. That’s especially bad in rooms with Figure: Giggle makes noise on your face, and Figure follows the noise.
In the Figure caves, it tracks Giggle’s laughter and crushes it. Figure reacts to loud noises the same way in general: it stomps the source, whether that’s an Alarm Clock or Giggle. The animation is the same in both cases. There used to be another cut interaction where Figure killed a fallen Giggle in the same room, but it was disabled in older versions.
The takeaway is simple: stun Giggle from a distance in a room with Figure, and don’t walk underneath it.
When Giggle isn’t alone
On its own, Giggle is more annoying than deadly. It’s dangerous when other entities are around. While it’s biting you, Screech might show up, and Gloombats could attack too. Giggle also turns your camera toward itself, just like Screech, Glitch, and Dread.
There’s one unexpected upside. While Giggle is on your face, Eyes might close and deal no damage. Don’t count on it, but if Giggle has already jumped on you in a room with Eyes, there’s no need to panic either.
Remember your friend when you’re playing together: the attack looks different to someone watching than it does to the player Giggle jumped on. If you see Giggle on someone else’s face, go remove it. Don’t wait for it to finish biting.
Giggle badges
You can earn three badges for Giggle, and most players have all three.
- Just A Prank — survive a Giggle attack. The text "It was just a prank, bro!" quotes an internet meme.
- Helping Hand — remove Giggle from another player’s face. This badge is hidden and only appears in the list after you earn it.
- Trickshot — encounter Giggle and throw a Glowstick at it. This one is hidden too.
There’s also a fourth badge, Not Funny. You get it for banishing Giggle with a Crucifix. You can’t earn Helping Hand alone, so I get it on my first run with a friend.
Fun facts
- Giggle was added to the game with The Mines Update on August 30, 2024. But it was imagined long before work began on The Mines.
- Chuckle was one of its possible names in older versions.
- Giggle originally had black eyes, and the team considered giving it different colors, but that idea went to Gloombats instead in older versions.
- The plan was to hang Giggles all over The Nest, but it was dropped for balance reasons in older versions.
- It’s a reference to the headcrabs from Half-Life and the facehuggers from Alien.
- Giggle’s jumpscare sound is the same as Timothy’s, just quieter.
- The attack looks different to the player it jumps on than it does to everyone else.
- Giggle’s model hasn’t changed since The Mines came out, no matter what people say in chat.
Related badges
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Frequently asked questions
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What’s Still Unconfirmed (8)
This information comes from announcements and rumors, or is outdated. The label will disappear once it’s confirmed.
- 1Once it finishes growing inside the cocoon, a Giggle turns into a large adult creature called a Grumble.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 2The full life cycle of a Giggle before it becomes a Grumble hasn't been confirmed.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 3The Journal hints that Screech may be Giggle, or a more mature stage of Giggle infected by Seek.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 4A cut interaction is disabled in the game, in which Figure could kill a fallen Giggle in the same room.
outdated; this was in older versions · source - 5Chuckle was considered as a possible name for Giggle.
outdated; this was in older versions · source - 6Giggle originally had black eyes.
outdated; this was in older versions · source - 7Giggles were originally planned to come in different colors, but that idea was soon given to Gloombats.
outdated; this was in older versions · source - 8Giggles were planned to appear throughout The Nest, but the idea was scrapped for balance.
outdated; this was in older versions · source
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