Silent Hill 2 Remake: every puzzle solved, by name and by location
Seventeen named puzzles from the Neely's Bar jukebox to the Lakeview music box, with the difficulty each solution was recorded on. Plus all 14 collectible areas and the 26 Strange Photos.
06/09/2026 · 4 min read
Silent Hill 2 Remake randomises several of its puzzle solutions and changes others entirely between difficulty settings. So a walkthrough that gives you a code is often giving you somebody else's code, and the useful thing is the method rather than the answer.
Every solution below says which difficulty it was recorded on. Check that first. If it says Standard and you are on Hard, expect the shape of the puzzle to hold and the specific answer to differ.
The puzzles, in the order you meet them
| Puzzle | Where | Difficulty recorded |
|---|---|---|
| Neely's Bar jukebox | South Vale | Standard |
| Coin cabinet, Apartment 201 key | Blue Creek Apartments | Standard |
| Moth puzzle, combination lock, M Room code | Blue Creek Apartments | Easy and Standard |
| Apartment 206 safe | Blue Creek Apartments | Standard |
| Bracelets | Brookhaven Hospital | Standard and Light |
| X-ray room, arranging radiographs | Brookhaven Hospital | Standard and Light |
| Director's office books and safe | Brookhaven Hospital | Standard and Light |
| Reception office locker | Brookhaven Hospital | Standard |
| Jewel box | Brookhaven Hospital, Otherworld | Standard and Light |
| Chained box | Brookhaven Hospital, Otherworld | Standard and Light |
| Lapis Eye key | Brookhaven Hospital, Otherworld | Standard |
| Scales, and the execution lever | Labyrinth | Standard |
| Hangman poem, the gallows | Labyrinth | Standard |
| Bug room code | Labyrinth | Standard and Light |
| Lady of the Door | Labyrinth | Standard |
| Music box, Corridor 3F key | Lakeview Hotel | Standard |
| Broken mirror | Lakeview Hotel | Standard |
| Gem box and safe code | Lakeview Hotel, employee section | Standard |
| Bookshelf, reading room | Lakeview Hotel | Standard |
| Briefcase and suitcase codes | Lakeview Hotel | Standard |
The two that stop people for hours
The Moth puzzle in Blue Creek. It has a different presentation on Easy than on Standard, which is why two people describing it to each other end up arguing. Confirm your difficulty before you confirm your answer.
The Hangman poem in the Labyrinth. It is a reading puzzle rather than a searching one, and the poem means what it says. People fail it by looking for a trick that is not there.
The collectible areas, all fourteen
Memos, photos and glimpses are tracked per area, and the areas are numbered by the game.
| # | Area |
|---|---|
| 1 | South Vale, East |
| 2 | Blue Creek Apartments |
| 4 | South Vale, West |
| 5 | Brookhaven Hospital |
| 6 | Brookhaven Hospital, Otherworld |
| 7 | South Vale, Otherworld East |
| 8 | South Vale, West Revisited |
| 9 | Silent Hill Historical Society |
| 10 | Toluca Prison |
| 11 | Labyrinth |
| 12 | Toluca Lake |
| 13 | Lakeview Hotel |
| Final | Lakeview Hotel, Otherworld |
South Vale appears four times as four separate areas: East, West, Otherworld East and West Revisited. They have different contents, and treating them as one place is the most common reason a collection run comes up short.
The 26 Strange Photos
Strange Photos drive the Pieces Unarranged trophy, and there are 26 of them. Chapter 4 has its own route because that chapter holds several and is where people first notice they are behind.
The photos are a key item rather than a memo, so they do not appear in the same list as the rest of your collection. Check both.
The trophies, and which need planning
| Trophy | Needs planning? |
|---|---|
| Pieces Unarranged, all 26 Strange Photos | Yes |
| Archivist | Yes, it is the full collection |
| Echoes | Yes |
| Radio Silence | Yes, turn the radio off deliberately |
| Scourge of Toluca Lake | Yes |
| James of All Trades | Yes |
| All Seems in Order | No |
| Nice and Cozy | No |
| No Turning Back Now | No |
| Enjoy Your Stay | No |
| You Never Know | No |
| Let's NOT Party | No |
| Leftovers | No |
| It's Bread | No |
Radio Silence is the one people trip over, because turning the radio off is something the game actively discourages you from doing. It has its own guide for that reason.
The way to play it
- Set your difficulty and remember it. Puzzle difficulty is separate from combat difficulty in this game, and the puzzle setting is the one that decides whether any solution you read applies to you.
- Sweep each area before you leave it. Silent Hill 2 lets you back into very little.
- Treat the four South Vale visits as four areas.
- Track Strange Photos separately from memos and photos, because the game does.
- Turn the radio off at some point, deliberately, for Radio Silence.
Every puzzle above has a video showing the solved state rather than describing it, which matters here more than in most games: several of these are visual arrangements, and a paragraph describing where a radiograph goes is worse than one second of footage.
