Easter eggs

Easter eggs are secrets in video games as a means of unexpected entertainment or a bonus.

The following is a list of easter eggs in Splatoon.

Basketball

An Inkling scoring a hoop with a Splat Bomb

On the Testing Area that can be accessed by pressing on the Equipment screen or whilst in Ammo Knights, there is a basketball hoop. If the player tosses a Sub Weapon, such as a Splat Bomb, into the hoop, their Inkling will say a celebration, much like they would if they were to splat an opponent in Turf War. A green sparkling effect will also occur around the hoop.

Blooper and Octorok

From top to bottom: two Octoroks and one Blooper

Another Octorok found in an Octo Valley level.

Hidden in various areas such as Zone 4 are stickers featuring the Blooper from Super Mario Bros. series and the Octorok from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

Password entry

The password entry screen.

Each number on the password entry screen for Private Battles plays a specific tone when the cursor is moved to it:

Numbers	5	0	6	1	7	2	3	4	8	9
Note	Lower B♭	Lower D♭		Lower E♭		Lower G♭	Lower A♭	Higher B♭		Higher D♭

These tones are not arranged in order or in a scale, as one would think, but are a bit more arbitrarily placed. It is possible to play the intro to Calamari Inkantation^(NA/EU/OC)[a] / シオカラ節^(JP) by moving the cursor between numbers in a specific pattern, which might explain the way the notes are arranged.

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Calamari Inkantation in Sunken Scroll 23 in sheet music form.

The pattern is as follows, each row corresponding to a bar of music:

7 6 7 6
7 6 7 6 5 6
7 6 7 6
7 2 3 8 7 6
7 6 7 6
7 6 5 6 7 2 3 8
3 2 7 2
3 8 9 8 3 2 7 6
7

Sunken Scroll flipbook

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The animation

Each Sunken Scroll has a doodle of a Character on the bottom right corner. By flipping through the pages, one can see a flipbook-like animation showing the character flip around twice and turn into different ones. It starts off with the Zapfish, then changes to Judd, and finally, to Sheldon.

Squid Sister wave

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The Squid Sisters, waving at the player

To the left of the Dojo on Inkopolis Plaza, there is a studio where the Squid Sisters can be found chatting. By staying near the window, the sisters will eventually wave at the player. Using the first person view with Template:ZR allows one to zoom in on the scene.