Silent Hill 2 Remake returns with a host of puzzles to work out in order to progress through locked doors and open chests. With each difficulty level having its own solution for a majority of the puzzles, it can be a little mentally taxing to figure out the answers each time.
This Silent Hill 2 Remake guide contains all the codes, combinations, and steps to solving the puzzles scattered in and around South Vale.
Grand Market Door Keypad Code
This door’s keypad can be opened with the following number codes:
- 4442 on Light
- 4444 on Standard
- 4446 on Hard
Neely’s Jukebox Puzzle
This puzzle is in Neely’s in the east side of South Vale, and its prerequisites are:
- Head to Texan Cafe
- Turn the cash register key and collect Neely’s Coin
- Head inside the I Love Groovy Music store
- Smash the window of the back room and enter
- Collect one half of the Broken Vinyl Record and the Vinyl Glue
- Head to Saul Street Apartments
- Clear the entrance to the second door on the right by pushing the obstacle
- Collect the Apartment Key from the key rack in the reception area
- Go up one floor and stick left to reach the last apartment
- Use the Apartment Key to enter
- Squeeze through the two gaps to reach the fire escape and climb up
- Head to the bathroom in this top floor apartment
- Reach into the hole in the wall and collect the Jukebox Button
Once all of the above items are collected:
- Head to Neely’s Bar
- Collect the other half of the Broken Vinyl Record from inside the Jukebox
- Use the Vinyl Glue to combine both halves together
- Insert the Glued Up Vinyl Record back into the Jukebox
- Insert Neely’s Coin and the Jukebox Button
- Press ‘C’ and ‘2’
- Collect Neely’s Key
Wood Side Apartments Room 206 Safe Combination
The combination for the safe in Wood Side Apartments Room 206 is:
- Light:
- 15 Clockwise
- 11 Anti-clockwise
- 13 Clockwise
- Standard:
- 13 Clockwise
- 7 Anti-clockwise
- 11 Clockwise
- Hard:
- 13 Clockwise
- 7 Anti-clockwise
- 11 Clockwise
Wood Side Apartments Coin Cabinet Puzzle
Counting the coin slots in the cabinet from left to right, insert the coins like so:
- Light:
- Slots 1-3-5: Man, Maiden, Flower
- Slots 1-3-5: Blade, Maiden, Serpent
- Slots 1-2-3: Serpent, Grave, Man
- Move either Man or Serpent to the top slot
- Standard:
- Slots 1-3-5: Man, Maiden, Flower
- Slots 2-4-5: Blade, Maiden, Serpent
- Slots 3-4-5: Man, Grave, Serpent
- Move either Man or Serpent to the top slot
- Hard:
- Slots 1-4-5: Man, Grave, Serpent
- Slots 1-2-3: Grave, Blade, Flower
- Slots 2-3-5: Man, Maiden, Serpent
- Move either Man or Serpent to the top slot
Blue Creek Apartments Room 202 Moth Door Padlock Combination
This door’s padlock can be opened with the following combination:
- 582 on Light
- 373 on Standard
- 522 on Hard
Jack’s Inn Safe Combination
The combination for the safe in Jack’s Inn is:
- 0451 on Light
- 0451 on Standard
- 0533 on Hard
Pete’s Bowl-O-Rama Safe Combination
The combination for this New Game Plus-exclusive safe in Pete’s Bowl-O-Rama is:
- 1887 on Light
- 1887 on Standard
- 1887 on Hard
Brookhaven Hospital Reception Office Padlock Combination
This door’s padlock can be opened with the following combination:
- 287 on Light
- 724 on Standard
- 152 on Hard
Brookhaven Hospital Nurses Station Door Keypad Code
This door’s keypad can be opened with the following number codes:
- 3578 on Light
- 3578 on Standard
- 7456 on Hard
Brookhaven Hospital Room D1 Door Padlock Combination
This door’s padlock can be opened with the following combination:
- Light:
- 4 Clockwise
- 37 Anti-clockwise
- 12 Clockwise
- Standard:
- 4 Clockwise
- 37 Anti-clockwise
- 12 Clockwise
- Hard:
- 4 Clockwise
- 37 Anti-clockwise
- 12 Clockwise
Brookhaven Hospital Director’s Office Hand Bracelets Puzzle Combination
This grisly variation on padlocks and safes can be solved with the following combination:
- Light:
- Top 92
- Middle 45
- Bottom 71
- Standard:
- Top 92
- Middle 45
- Bottom 71
- Hard:
- Top 92
- Middle 45
- Bottom 71
Brookhaven Hospital Director’s Office Symbol Safe Combination
Begin by rearranging the books on the shelf in the Director’s Storage Room in the Director’s Office. The embossing on the spines should make a recognizable pattern of a lion as a whole.
Note the symbols imprinted at the bottom of each book’s spines. Each symbol corresponds to a number etched into the book stand beneath.
Collect the Safe Button from here and return to the safe in the Director’s Office.
Restore the Safe Button, to begin entering the combination in the top row. You will be entering the same six digits from the Hand Bracelets Puzzle above: 924571, but in their corresponding symbol form.
Starting from left to right, press whichever button symbol corresponds to 9, then the symbol that corresponds to 2, and so on.
Brookhaven Hospital Chained Box Padlock Combination
This padlock can be opened with the following combination:
- 1622 on Light
- 1622 on Standard
- 1622 on Hard
Brookhaven Hospital Chained Box Keypad Code
This keypad can be opened with the following number codes:
- 9659 on Light
- 9659 on Standard
- 9659 on Hard
Brookhaven Hospital Pharmacy Ornate Jewelry Box Code
From top to bottom, this keypad can be opened with the following number codes:
- 231 on Light
- 231 on Standard
- 231 on Hard
Spiral-writing Key Room Keypad Code
Examine the keypad and note that all but three numbers are bloodstained.
The correct code is a random combination of each of those three unstained digits, without repeats. Cycle through all six possibilities until the door unlocks.
Toluca Prison Generator Puzzle
The goal is to flip the switches such that all remain in the ‘on’ position.
This is made difficult because flipping some switches can cause others to turn ‘off’. Trial and error works well enough here.
Once all the switches are in position, flip the lever as well.
Toluca Prison Scales Puzzle
Distributing weights between the two scales moves the pointer to an animal symbol, which in turn unlocks the corresponding door.
Experiment with that until all doors have been unlocked, before perfectly balancing out the scales to receive the Execution Lever.
Toluca Prison Gallows Puzzle
A rhyming puzzle that gets more complex on the higher difficulty levels.
There is no fixed solution to this puzzle, and it really comes down to you making a call. The wrong choice puts you in combat with monsters, while the right one drops you in the morgue, but alive.
LakeView Hotel Employee Section Break Room Safe Combination
The safe number code is:
- 7414 on Light
- 7414 on Standard
- 7414 on Hard
LakeView Hotel Reading Room Book Puzzle
Collect the four books scattered around the room, and restore them to their correct spots on the shelves. Using the symbols on their spine to identify them, starting from the top left and proceeding clockwise:
- Light:
- Icarus
- Bull
- Eagle
- Lion
- Standard:
- Icarus
- Eagle
- Lion
- Bull
- Hard:
- Icarus
- Eagle
- Lion
- Bull
LakeView Hotel Reading Room Suitcase
The suitcase combination code from left to right is:
- Dark Wish on Light
- Deed Done on Standard
- Love Lust on Hard
LakeView Hotel Manager’s Office Gemstone Puzzle
Rotate the symbols in the puzzle by using the corresponding gem in the appropriate slot. The final design must match the painting opposite the puzzle itself, which is the same in all difficulty levels.
LakeView Hotel Music Box Puzzle
The goal of this puzzle is to return the figurines to their individual recesses.
Rotate the daises so that the tracks line up, and then turn the keys at the front of the music box an appropriate number of times.
Those are the solutions to all the puzzles in Silent Hill 2 Remake.