


Each number corresponds to the ring you must jump through the ring at the elevator is 1, and the ring next to Truth is 7. Note: you can restart jumping through the rings without restarting the level over as long as you start from the beginning. The skull will still appear if you are playing in co-op (2-4 players). You should jump through the rings after Truth dies. Once the bridge is devoid of enemies, you will have to jump through the seven holograms of the Halos in a specific order. When you reach the final scene, where the Prophet of Truth is planning on lighting the seven rings, proceed as you would normally: kill the Covenant, kill Truth, and kill the Flood, but do not jump down the elevator shaft once you have finished that. To obtain the skull, the player must start the level from the very beginning, and not from a Rally Point, and on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.

The IWHBYD skull is located on the level The Covenant. Not only is the skull's name a reference to this line, but the skull's description reads "But a dog beat me over the fence" The exception of this is in Halo 3: ODST and Halo 4, where the description reads, "Rare dialog is common and vice versa". It is also the name of the first chapter of the campaign level Assault on the Control Room in Halo: Combat Evolved. The name of the skull is based on a statement, occasionally uttered by both Sergeant Johnson and Sergeant Stacker in Halo: Combat Evolved: "I would have been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence!" The quote was originally spoken by Pete Stacker.
