Silent Hill 2 Remake Coin Puzzle Guide

Silent Hill 2 remake follows the story of James Sunderland as he explores the city Silent Hill to find his wife Mary. The game is full of confusing puzzles that must be completed in order to progress further into the story.

The main puzzle in Wood Side Apartments is Puzzle with coins players encounter in Reception room. This box needs three coins and several puzzles that players must solve to get the key. This guide contains details on coin locations and how to solve puzzles.

Updated October 13, 2024: We noticed a lot Silent Hill 2 remake players are faced with coin puzzle in Hard mode. So we've added a new section that deals with the puzzle on harder difficulty mode.

How to solve the wooden apartment coin puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake

After entering the Wood Side Apartments and grabbing the map from the board near the counter, you can head into the reception room to find a box of puzzle coins. This puzzle needs three coins, which players interested in puzzles from the Silent Hill franchise can find on different floors of the apartment.

Where to find a male coin

To get Coin manplayers must first go to apartment 108 where they will find a Golden apple handle on the cabinet. With the handle in your possession, head to apartment 208 on the second floor, where you'll find a similar cabinet where you can put the Golden Apple. This will allow you to slide the cabinet to the right to reveal a small passage. Go to apartment 206 where you have to solve a puzzle to open the safe. The correct solution to the puzzle is Right 13, Left 7, Right 11. Opening the safe will give you Coin [Man] and a steel key.

Here you will find a comprehensive guide on how to find the Golden Apple and unlock the vault.

Where to find a female coin

After you get the flashlight and proceed further in this area, you'll find a door adjacent to Apartment 212. Enter it to find a trash chute that you can look down to see a Female Coin. This is not currently accessible, so you need to explore more until you find it 2F key to small staircasewho opens the locked door near apartment 213.

If you want, save your game and go to the third floor. Head to apartment 310, which has a balcony that connects to apartment 312. Inside apartment 312, you'll find a small crawl space with blood on the floor. Approach it and go through to find the washroom Canned juice an item you can collect. Pick it up and throw it down the garbage chute in this washroom so that the garbage lands in the yard outside. Return to the courtyard to find Coin [Woman] on the ground.

Where to find snake coin

After getting the female coin, go back the way you came and head left to the end of the hallway. Enter apartment 116 where a cutscene will start and you will meet Eddie. Once the cutscene ends, jump out the window to find more Reclining figure enemies in the pool area. Deal with them using yours Wooden Board or Pistol and fall into the pool. Interact with the red stroller to find Coin [Snake].

All Coin Puzzle Solutions (Standard Difficulty)

There are four puzzles on the coin box. Players who are interested in Silent Hill games with great fights must complete them all to get the reward. Coins can be placed in five slots and rotatedwhich is necessary for some puzzles. The first riddle is:

Be three bright coins in five holes,

first he places the Virgin under a tree.

The wind blows from behind the maiden,

a beautiful flower must grow by itself.

And here comes the Man, so sleek and so gentle,

in the pale moonlight his eyes shine.

The solution to this puzzle is to lay down Bronze sunflower on the far right Golden woman in the middle and The silver man on the far left.

The second puzzle is:

The man approaches, his blade now revealed,

his face disappears behind the gleaming steel.

Away from the man, the Virgin flees,

towards the flower, away from the tree.

The solution to this puzzle is to place the bronze sunflower on the far right, the golden woman second from the right, and Silver sword on the fourth slot from the right.

The third riddle is:

Where a flower once grew, poisonous joy,

where once there was a girl but a stone.

And over her grave remains the main,

his blade had never hit the vile snake's vein.

The solution to this puzzle is to lay down Bronze snake on the far right A golden tombstone in the second slot from the right and the Silver Man in the middle.

The fourth and final riddle is:

A beast that bears teeth in its body,

He who failed, She who is no more.

Now the hard work falls on you

who bears the blame for what fate has prepared?

The solution to the last puzzle is to drop any coin into the top slot.

All Coin Puzzle Solutions (Hard Difficulty)

The first riddle is:

Three bright coins, three actors in the game,

yet not one will remain in the shadows

Once so gallant fled from the day's shine

as he could from the icon of sin.

The one he swore to protect in her life,

now she lies in the grave, out of his sight.

The solution to this puzzle is to place the Silver Man on the far left, the Golden Tomb on the second slot from the right, and the Bronze Serpent on the far right.

The second puzzle is:

His blade strikes what rises from the roots,

followed by guilt and the sign of death.

The life he once had left behind

where love once was, stone now resides.

The solution to this puzzle is to place the Golden Tombstone on the far left, the Silver Sword on the second slot from the left, and the Bronze Sunflower in the middle.

The third riddle is:

He kneels by a crown that casts a cruel shadow

on her face, which had faded.

They have no soul, no sight, no sound.

and yet evil creeps upon the radiant earth.

The solution to this puzzle is to place the Silver Man in the second slot from the left, the Golden Woman in the middle, and the Bronze Serpent on the far right.

For the fourth puzzle, you can insert any coin into the top slot to solve the puzzle.

Where to go after completing the coin puzzle?

After solving all the puzzles, you'll get a key to Apartment 201, which you can use to open the locked door and head inside to start the final cutscene for the area.