Puzzle Solutions

On this page, you will find the solutions to each puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024) for each difficulty level (light, standard and hard). In addition to the quick answers, the full solution method will be explained in depth.

For the original Silent Hill 2 puzzle solutions, please go to this page.

Contents

Eastern South Vale
Wood Side Apartments
Blue Creek Apartments
Western South Vale
Brookhaven Hospital
Otherworld Hospital
Silent Hill Historical Society
Toluca Prison
Labyrinth
Lakeview Hotel

Eastern South Vale

Grand Market Keypad

Enter the corresponding door code.

Light: 4442
Standard: 4444
Hard: 4446

Complete puzzle solution

Neely's Bar Jukebox Puzzle

  1. Checking a jukebox in Neely's Bar will get you one half of a Broken Vinyl Record.
  2. Find another half of the Broken Vinyl Record and Vinyl Glue on the table behind the glass inside the Groovy Music shop.
  3. Combine the two halves of the record using the glue to get the Glued Up Vinyl Record.
  4. Find Neely's Bar Coin in Texan Cafe's cash register. Turn the key and then press the button at the bottom to get the coin.
  5. Find the missing Jukebox Button in the bathroom hole at Apartment 9 of Saul Street Apartments.
Final Solution
  1. Manipulate the parts at the bottom of the jukebox: rotate the green cylinder, move the red arm to connect to the cylinder, move the cylinder away, and lower the blue cog down.
  1. Rotate the green cylinder twice and insert the Glued Up Vinyl Record.
  1. Highlight the missing button No. 2 and attach the Jukebox Button.
  2. Highlight the coin slot and insert the Neely's Bar Coin.
  3. Press buttons C and 2 to play the record.

Wood Side Apartments

Room 206 Safe Code

Use the following combination for the safe.

Light: Right to 15, left to 11, right to 13
Standard: Right to 13, left to 7, right to 11
Hard: Right to 13, left to 7, right to 11

Complete puzzle solution

Coin Cabinet Puzzle

Place the coins accordingly for every stage. Flip the coins as necessary.

  • Man - Sword
  • Woman - Gravestone
  • Snake - Flower

Complete puzzle solution

Light

Man Woman Flower
Sword Woman Snake
Snake Grave Man

Lastly, place any coin, Man, Woman, or Snake, into the top slot to finish the puzzle.

Standard

Man Woman Flower
Sword Woman Flower
Man Grave Snake

Lastly, place any coin, Man, Woman, or Snake, into the top slot to finish the puzzle.

Hard

Man Grave Snake
Grave Sword Flower
Man Woman Snake

Lastly, place any coin, Man, Woman, or Snake, into the top slot to finish the puzzle (affects the ending).

Blue Creek Apartments

Room 212 Clock Puzzle

  1. Obtain The Hour Hand inside the chained up radio in Room 307 by lowering it.
  2. Insert the hand into the clock and set it to 9.
  1. Obtain The Minute Hand inside the toilet in Room 210.
  2. Insert the hand into the clock and set it to 2.
  1. Solve the Room 202 Moth Combination Lock Puzzle to get into the bedroom of Room 202 and obtain The Second Hand inside the hole in the wall.
  2. Insert the hand into the clock and set it to 3.
  3. The final time will be 9 hours, 10 minutes and 15 seconds.

Room 210 Seesaw Puzzle

  1. Find the Pigeon Figurine in a cupboard in Room 210 once you collect the Minute Hand in the toilet.
  2. Get the Wooden Swan Head off the hook in Room 211.
  3. Get the Malformed Figurine Part hanging above the bathtub in Room 209.
  4. Combine the Wooden Swan Head and the Malformed Figurine Part to get the Swan Figurine.
  1. Place the Pigeon Figurine and the Swan Figurine on the seesaw. Move the Swan Figurine 2 places to the left to balance it out.

Room 202 Moth Combination Lock

Use the following combination for the lock.

Light: 582
Standard: 373
Hard: 522

Western South Vale

Jacks Inn Safe Code

Use the following combination for the safe.

Light: 0451
Standard: 0451
Hard: 0533

Pete's Bowl-O-Rama Safe Code

Only in New Game+.

Use the following combination for the safe – 1887. The code is found in the Bloody Note found by the body at the end of Nathan Avenue.

Brookhaven Hospital

Reception Office Padlock

Use the following combination for the padlock.

Light: 287
Standard: 724
Hard: 152

Complete puzzle solution

Nurse's Station Keypad

Use the following combination for the keypad.

Light: 3578
Standard: 3578
Hard: 7456

X-Ray Viewer Puzzle

Place four radiographs on the X-ray viewer lining up with the black pen marks to see the revealed code – 4 37 12. Use it for the Room D1 combination lock.

 

Director's Office Hand Puzzle

Collect the three bracelets in the hospital:

  1. Find the Marked Bracelet in 1F Medical Records.
  2. Find the Filthy Bracelet in Room D1 after solving the X-Ray Viewer puzzle.
  3. Find the Bloodstained Bracelet inside the drained pool's wall.

Place the bracelets on the hand matching the stains and markings on the hand in the following order, top to bottom:

  1. Bloodstained Bracelet
  2. Marked Bracelet
  3. Filthy Bracelet

The resulting code from top to bottom is 92, 45, 71.

Director's Office Safe Puzzle

  1. Rearrange the books in the Director's Office's storage to match astrological symbols with the numbers and learn the cipher.
  1. Enter the 92, 45, 71 code using the astrological symbols as shown in the image.

Otherworld Hospital

Chained Box Puzzle

  1. Obtain the Lapis Eye Key from the mannequin in a surgical chair in 3F Exam Room 4 using the Instrument of Force and the Key of Bliss on the mannequin. Use the key on the box.
  2. Input the code from the Calendar Page memo in Room M2 on the left combination lock – 1622.
  3. Power up the treatment stretcher in 3F Room I7 to reveal a code. Input the resulting code into the right keypad – 9659.

Pharmacy Decorative Box Puzzle

This puzzle is optional – the reward is supplies. Enter the correct answers to the elevator "Trick or Treat" quiz:

  1. Q1 – 2
  2. Q2 – 3
  3. Q3 – 1

Silent Hill Historical Society

Bug Room Door Keypad

The code will be a random three-digit combination of the unstained lit buttons on the keypad: 2, 3, and 9 – input by trial and error. Possible variations are: 239, 293, 329, 392, 923, 932.

Toluca Prison

Weights and Scales Puzzle

You need to place the weights on the scales to unlock various areas of the prison. Some of the weights you will have to collect in different places. The six weights from left to right are: Small (1) - The Lightest (2) - Light (3) - Medium (4) - Heavy (5) - The Heaviest (6)

  1. Collect the Heaviest Weight from the altar in the Chapel.
  2. Put the Small Weight (1) on the left scale and the Heaviest Weight (6) on the right one to unlock the Headless Serpent door.
  1. Collect the Medium Weight off the chair in the Death Chamber, Serpent Section.
  2. Put the Small (1) and The Heaviest Weights (6) on the left scale and the Medium Weight on the right one to unlock the Hornless Ox door.
  1. Collect the Heavy Weight inside a hole in the wall in the Showers, 2F.
  2. Put the Small Weight (1) on the left scale and the rest of the weights on the right one to unlock the Eyeless Boar door.
  1. Collect the Light Weight in 3F Warden's Office after interacting with a typewriter (type something or simply select Tab several times).
  2. Put the Medium Weight (4) on the right scale and the rest of the weights on another to unlock the Wingless Dove door.
  1. Collect the Lightest Weight in Cell F6 in the basement.
  2. Distribute the weights evenly to unlock the Gallows puzzle – see the image:
    • The Lightest (2), Light (3), Heavy (5) on the left scale;
    • Small (1), Medium (4) , The Heaviest (6) on the right one.

Witness Room Generator Puzzle

You need to flip all the switches up and push the dial into the red zone, causing an overload. To do so, flip the switches in this order:

Light: 4th - 5th - 2nd - 1st - 3rd
Standard: 6th - 4th - 5th - 1st - 3rd - 2nd
Hard: 4th - 5th - 2nd - 1st - 3rd - 6th - 7th

When all switches are up, and the dial is in the red zone, flip the breaker lever.

Gallows Puzzle

Match the two halves of the poems and determine an innocent person who committed their crime without malicious intent. After you do so, pull the corresponding rope with the same number. The answers are random and there are always two innocent person choices.

Complete puzzle solution

Here are all possible combinations of the "innocent" persons:

Light:

  • I (Hallowed was the place / T'was the home of evil)
  • II (This one took from others / Stealing to survive)
  • III (This one, he did kidnap / Did it just to save her)
  • IV (This one broke the lock / And steal he did a remedy)
  • V (This one dared / A monster's life)
  • VI (This one clenched his fist / Turned against his bully)

Standard:

  • I (For your grace I do not plead / Though the young ones deaths I mourn)
  • II (The wealth of others I did take / The reason is, I have to say)
  • III (I took the child, you are quite right / Forgive me, child, for I have failed)
  • IV (Once the sun has ceased its reigh / So, my guilt is plain to see)
  • V (Mommy dearest, Mommy sweet / You broke my legs, I couldn't walk)
  • VI ( I waited long, I bid my time / In truth, he was less man than beast)

Hard:

  • I (Under veil of nightfall, in the ink of dusk / Death of the blameless, a damnable sin)
  • II (In twilight's grasp, a thief emerges sly / With hands atremble, he seizes what he must)
  • III (In shroud of twilight, a tale doth unfold / A cruel twist of fate, an outcome unsought)
  • IV (In clandestine steps, darkness as his guide / Amidst the moon's glow, a desperate truth)
  • V (With her senses failing, she looks, mouth agape / 'Twas a twisted fate that forced the man's hand)
  • VI (In shadows cast, the hunter lies in wait / Desperation's grip suffocates the air)

If you make an incorrect guess, you will be dropped down to an area filled with monsters from which you must fight back.

Labyrinth

Rotating Cube Puzzle

Rotate the cube to match the symbols visible on the walls to access various Labyrinth areas:

  1. Symbol of an upward-facing triangle with a cross at the bottom (Rotten Area).
  1. Symbol of a double cross with two circles at the bottom (Desolate Area)
  1. Symbol of a downward-facing triangle with a cross at the bottom (Ruined Area).

Lakeview Hotel

Reading Room Puzzle

Place the four books collected in the reading room on the bookshelf so that their cover symbols would match the painting on the opposite side. Note that the spear symbol is upside-down, so the symbols should be rotated accordingly:

Winged Man   Eagle
   
Bull   Lion

Room 202 Mirror Puzzle

  1. Collect the Mirror Shard from the bed in Room 202.
  2. Place either the Ripe Apple from the 2F Hall or the Rotten Apple found in the Garden on a round plate in front of the broken mirror (affects the ending).
  3. Place all the shards in the mirror until it is complete.

Your reward will be the Snow White Figurine that will appear on the table in Room 201.

Room 205 Vanity Mirror Puzzle

  1. Collect the Paint Can from Room 318.
  2. Collect the Light Bulb from the gated garden area (requires the Boltcutters from the 3F Utility Room).
  3. Shoot the glass roof from the balcony of Room 217 to obtain the Can Opener from the Lake Shore Restaurant when it falls down.
  4. Combine the Can Opener and the Paint Can to open the can.
  5. Combine the Open Paint Can and the Light Bulb to get a Red Light Bulb.
  1. Remove broken light bulb from the vanity mirror.
  2. Insert the Red Light Bulb into the vanity mirror to reveal the message.

Light: DARK WISH
Standard: DEED DONE
Hard: LOVE LUST

  1. Enter the message as a code for the suitcase.

Manager's Office Gem Box Puzzle

The code to open the Break Room safe is inside the Gem Box in the Manager's Office in the Basement. To make it work you first need find the three gemstones:

  1. On a countertop in the Kitchen.
  2. On a freezer shelf in the Freezer Room.
  3. In a box in the Manager's Room.

Place the gemstones in the corresponding slots to adjust the image in the center to match the painting in the same room:

  1. Blue gemstone - bottom left slot.
  2. Green gemstone - top left slot.
  3. Red gemstone - top right slot.

Inside the gem box you will find a paper with a number that is the code for the Break Room safe. The safe code is always 7414.

Lobby Music Box Puzzle

  1. Place the figurines into the corresponding slots:
    • Snow White – left.
    • Little Mermaid – top.
    • Cinderella – right.
  2. Align the four circular plates to form uninterrupted paths and press the button in the bottom right corner for a test.
  1. Turn each key a certain number of times and then press the gold button below:

Light: 7 - 2 - 1
Standard: 7 - 5 - 1
Hard: 1 - 1 - 1