You must open the Safe in the manager’s office to get the roof key Silent Hill 2which leads to the Other World of Brookhaven Hospital.
This safe is one of the main puzzles in the first half of Brookhaven Hospital, but you must first solve the hand puzzle before you can open it, as this gives you the key to the safe. Director’s storage room which leads to the Safety Button item and the book puzzle. , both of which are essential for developing the Safe puzzle solutionas well as the code you get by solving the hand puzzle.
With so many components, it can be a little confusing to navigate at first, so speed things up, we’ve explained. how to solve the Brookhaven Hospital Safe puzzle in Silent Hill 2.
Please noteThis is a guide for the Silent Hill 2 remake, on “Standard” and “Hard” puzzle difficulty modes, so the puzzle solutions may not be correct if you are playing the original version or if you have selected the “Light” mode. puzzle difficulty.
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Everything you need to solve the Director’s Office safe puzzle
Before you can even start the safe puzzle, you need to solve the hand puzzle in the principal’s office to get the key to the principal’s storage room. We have a lot more detail in our dedicated hand puzzle guide, but in short, it involves locating marked, dirty, and bloodstained bracelets throughout Brookhaven Hospital.
Once you have the three medical bracelets, return to the Hand on the Director’s desk, then:
- Place the bloodstained bracelet on top and turn the number “92” towards the middle.
- Place the marked bracelet in the middle and turn the number “45” towards the middle.
- Place the dirty bracelet on the bottom and turn the number “71” towards the middle.
When you do this, the hand will open and give you the key to the Director’s Storage Room. Use it on the door near the save point in the office, then collect the security button lying on the small table when you enter the room. Then turn right to find the Book puzzle. To solve it, you have to rearrange the books to create a complete picture of a lion.
Although this doesn’t give you an item, it is a major clue that helps you understand the security code. You will know you have solved the puzzle when symbols are added to your map at the location of the Book puzzle.
You now have everything you need to successfully solve the Safe puzzle.
Brookhaven Hospital Safe Puzzle Solution in Silent Hill 2
Once you have solved the Hand puzzle, the Book puzzle and have the Safe button, you are finally ready to solve the Safe puzzle in the principal’s office!
Although it may seem a little confusing at first, the trick to solving the puzzle is to use the code 92, 45, 71 that you got from the Hand puzzle with the solved Book puzzle, because each book has a symbol associated with it , and each symbol corresponds to a number. So going from left to right, these symbols represent one to nine.
So all you have to do to solve the Brookhaven Hospital vault puzzle in Silent Hill 2 East:
- Place the security button on the safe.
- Enter the symbols that represent 92, 45, and 71, in that order.
So, in “Standard” and “Hard” difficulties, the code starts with the symbol of a triangle inside a circle and ends with the symbol of a circle containing a horizontal and vertical line.
If you don’t want to keep looking at the card while entering the code, here’s a picture of the Director’s Office Safe puzzle solution:
Once you select these symbols, the safe will give you the Roof Key, which you use on the door at the top of the northwest staircase in 3F.
Examining the newspaper page on the roof triggers James’ descent into the Otherworld of Brookhaven Hospital, so make sure you’ve done everything you want on that side of the hospital before doing it.