Signal → what to do
- Papers with drawings of eyes and faces in the next room mean Scribbles is here. Start looking for a hiding spot.
- The screen shakes, and the room fills with paper. It’s about to come in.
- The way into the next room is blocked. Scribbles is standing in the doorway and hasn’t moved yet.
- Its right eye flashes red and purple. It’s spotted you, so get behind cover now.
- The lights in the rooms ahead go out one by one. It’s moving through them toward you.
How to survive Scribbles
Don’t listen—look. Scribbles is almost silent, so the papers in the next room and the shaking screen give it away. If you wait for a sound in The Archives, you’ll get a face full of paper.
Here’s what I do when I see paper on the floor: 1. I don’t rush to the door. While Scribbles is standing there, it blocks the way. 2. I look for cover: closets, office cubicles, or chairs. Glass dividers in some rooms also protect you. 3. If there’s no cover, I go back to the previous rooms. Scribbles likes rooms without hiding spots, but it waits a long time before moving. 4. I stay hidden until it passes. If it doesn’t find me, it moves on.
A last resort is to use a pillar. Scribbles is slow, so you can circle around it as it follows you. You might still get hit once or twice, so I only try this when I have plenty of health. This trick barely works against Bash—you have to react way faster, while Scribbles gives you time to do it.
Remember the side rooms: sometimes paper can fly through the wall even there. So a closet is safer than the corner of a nearby room.
Where Scribbles appears
Only in The Archives, where it’s one of the recurring entities. It shares the Archives Sectors with Bash, Drones, and Ransom.
It appears through the door ahead, waits a few seconds, then slowly moves through the rooms toward you, turning off the lights in the rooms it leaves. It throws paper at anyone it sees.
It shows up every few rooms, usually twice or more per sector—just like Bash. One theory is that after a certain number of rooms, you’ll get one of the two unconfirmed. That’s why I count rooms: after a few quiet ones, expect paper or a crash.
How Scribbles catches you
- Waiting for a sound. It’s almost silent.
- Thinking the paper is harmless. Each hit is weak, but lots of hits can kill you.
- Hiding behind furniture when a horde of Drones is nearby. They hit through furniture, even if it protects you from Scribbles.
- Dodging Alma when Scribbles is on its way. Facing two threats at once is a bad bet.
- Hiding in a side room and thinking you’re safe. Paper can sometimes pass through the wall.
- Expecting it to come back like the old A-120. Scribbles doesn’t move toward you or bounce back.
What is Scribbles?
Scribbles is a head made of crumpled paper stuck together with something like ink. Its left eye is drawn, its mouth is a big closed smile, and its right eye is a white outline in the ink behind the paper. In chats, people also call it a doodle or scribble.
According to The Journal, the drawings on the paper are probably its own, which means it may have basic intelligence. Its intelligence is listed as average. The Journal’s caption says dying to it is like getting a million paper cuts. One theory is that Scribbles is connected to Drones: both entities are made of something like ink unconfirmed. They don’t have any special interactions with each other, though.
How much damage does the paper do?
Each sheet does 10 damage. Getting hit leaves red scratch marks on the screen. One hit doesn’t do much, but taking lots of hits in a row is deadly. The paper is sharp—after your second death, Curious Light says Scribbles throws sharp pieces of paper at its victims.
So here’s the simple math for your run: you can tank Scribbles if you have enough health. You still get the badge for surviving it. But I wouldn’t test how many sheets you can take today—a closet is the safer bet.
Scribbles vs. A-120: what’s the difference?
Scribbles is a revamped version of A-120 from The Rooms. It was renamed. They don’t have much in common: both have wide smiles, and both work as node entities. Apart from that, Scribbles mostly has its own behavior.
A-120 moved toward players and killed anyone who was out in the open and not hiding. It could bounce back, so you had to stay in a closet until the encounter was over. In The Archives Update, it was changed: before, it instantly killed anyone who wasn’t hiding, but now it throws paper that hurts you. Scribbles doesn’t move toward you or bounce back. It also no longer tracks your exact location.
There are a few other similarities, too. A-120 used to block the next door, but that ability was removed because of a bug that could leave players trapped in older versions. Scribbles brought that habit back: it stands in the doorway until it starts moving. A-120 only appeared in four room types that had lockers. Scribbles can show up in a room with no hiding spots at all.
Players still argue about who’s better: A-120 or Scribbles. I think Scribbles is fairer: you can spot it with your eyes instead of waiting for a sound, and it gives you time to think. A-120 was tougher; Scribbles is trickier.
Scribbles vs. Bash: eyes versus ears
There are two entities in The Archives that play similar roles, so they’re easy to mix up. Bash is a revamped A-60, while Scribbles is a revamped A-120. They warn you in different ways: Bash only uses sound, while Scribbles gives you visual clues.
So keep both your eyes and ears open in The Archives. A sound means Bash; paper on the floor means Scribbles. Furniture protects you from both, but not from Drones: their horde hits through it.
Limitless Paper badge
You get one badge for Scribbles—Limitless Paper. Just survive it. Hide in a safe spot, or take the damage if you have enough health.
The badge is hidden and has medium rarity. Its description says, “The Paper People's Personal Purgatory.”Survive your first encounter and it’s yours.
Fun facts
- Its name may be connected to A-200 from Rooms, who was called The Happy Scribble unconfirmed. Or maybe it’s just about the drawings on the paper unconfirmed.
- Some theories say the drawings refer to Deskbud from Rooms: REVISITED, A-15 and A-150 from Interminable Rooms, and PM 6:06 unconfirmed.
- Scribbles looks like Ram from the fan game The Foundation—it also waits by the next door and walks backward, though that could be a coincidence.
- The Journal entry about Drones might mention Scribbles before you even meet it.
- Honcho, Ransom, and Scribbles appeared in an April Fools video in 2026 with official renders.
- Scribbles is one of eight entities on the game icon.
- After your first death to it, Curious Light notes that paper cuts probably don’t feel good and suggests avoiding them. Thanks, Captain.
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Frequently asked questions
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What’s Still Unconfirmed (10)
This information comes from announcements and rumors, or is outdated. The label will disappear once it’s confirmed.
- 1After enough rooms, either Bash or Scribbles probably appears.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 2Scribbles may be connected to Drones, since both entities are made of an ink-like substance.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 3A-120 could once block the next door and display a message saying there was an obstacle.
outdated; this was in older versions · source - 4A-120’s ability to block doors was removed because of a bug that left players trapped after the entity disappeared.
outdated; this was in older versions · source - 5The name Scribbles may be connected to A-200, who was also called The Happy Scribble in the original Rooms game.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 6Scribbles may be named after the drawings on paper that warn players of its arrival.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 7Scribbles' drawings may be inspired by Deskbud from Rooms: REVISITED.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 8The drawings may reference entities from fan games based on Rooms, such as A-15 from Interminable Rooms.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 9Scribbles' drawings may be inspired by A-150 from Interminable Rooms, which appears as a drawing on a table or floor.
rumor, unconfirmed · source - 10One of the drawings may reference PM 6:06.
rumor, unconfirmed · source
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