How to solve the Silent Hill 2 Remake Director's Office Hand puzzle
Oct. 4, 2024The stone hand in the Director’s office needs three bracelets to get the key it’s holding
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The Director’s Office Hand puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake is a stone hand gripping a key that needs three bracelets - the Marked Bracelet, Bloodstained Bracelet and Filthy Bracelet - put on it, and a confusing thing when you first find it. Solving it will finally release the key and allow you to proceed, but doing so is a serious challenge and ultimately what you’ll be spending most of your time in Brookhaven Hospital doing, similar to theSilent Hill 2 Remake coin cabinetback in Woodside Apartment earlier.
And like the Coin Cabinet, this isn’t really something you can skip out on, so we’ll help you if you’re having trouble. With the Marked, Bloodstained and Filthy Bracelet all hidden around the hospital, we’ll show you how to get them all and solve the puzzle of the Hand in the Director’s Office in the Silent Hill 2 Remake below.
The Director’s Office Hand in Silent Hill 2 Remake explained
The hand in the Director’s Office in the Silent Hill 2 Remake requires, as mentioned,three bracelets found around the Brookhaven Hospitalthat will cause the hand to open up and give the key. We’ll go into greater detail about how to get them below, but here’s where they can be found:
None of these are as simple as going straight there and fetching them, as there’s various puzzles and challenges locking off each bracelet before you can reach them. Below we’ll lay out how to get to them all, and the steps required to access each one.
The Marked Bracelet is in the Medical Records Room on 1F, though it’s not easily accessed - you’ll need to work your way down there through some unconventional means. Still, it’s the easiest one to get overall, and a good place to start.
The Bloodstained Bracelet isin the Pool on the 1F,though it’s not enough simply to reach it - you’ll need to drain the pool first, a whole process in its own right.
The Filthy Bracelet is up on 3F, and you’ll need to complete theSilent Hill 2 Remake hospital combination lock and X-Ray puzzleto open it. We’ve got a more detailed guide on how to do just that at the attached page, but you can skip past that if you’re feeling efficient by following the steps below.
Once you have all three Bracelets, bring them back to the Director’s Office and arrange them on the hand in the following order top-to-bottom, with these specific numbers pointed to the front.
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This will solve the puzzle and cause the hand to release theDirector’s Storage Room Key, which you can use to proceed through the hospital critical path and start to open theSilent Hill 2 Remake Director’s Office Safe.
The actual logic for the puzzle is incredibly esoteric and deduced by reading various patient memos and logs across the hospital (such as a note that refers to somebody undergoing “Incident 71”), but ultimately it’s far more likely you’ll solve it by just putting the clear numbers at the front and then stumbling across the right arrangement without knowing why - that’s happened here twice independently of each other.
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