Silent Hill 2 Remake Coin Puzzle: Where to Find Three Coins

The coin puzzle in Silent Hill 2: Remake is found in the Woodside Apartments, the first major building available for exploration. To solve it, you'll need to find three quest items scattered around the house and insert them in the correct order into the cabinet in the hallway. After that, you'll receive a reward in the form of a key and access to the next major location.

In this guide we will tell you how to complete the coin puzzle in Silent Hill 2: Remake, where to find all three items in the house and in what order, depending on the difficulty level, to insert them into the cabinet.

How to Get the Key to Room 201 in Silent Hill 2: Remake

To get the key to room 201, you'll need to solve the coin puzzle in the Woodside building by placing the quest items in the cabinet slots in the correct order. The cabinet itself is located behind the reception desk right at the entrance and is available for exploration as soon as you enter the house, but you won't be able to do anything with it until you find all the coins. After solving the puzzle, you'll get to the Blue Creek Apartments, the next major location.

How to Solve the Coin Puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake: Where to Find All the Coins for the Locker

The coins are hidden throughout the Woodside House. The building is divided into three floors and a large courtyard, almost all rooms are available for exploration, and some contain the required quest items. To get most of them, you will have to complete the local puzzles.

Coin Man

The most difficult coin on the list is located in the safe in room 206, to get it you need to run around almost the entire first and second floors. First, open several rooms and get the required items, and then head to the right room with the safe.

1. Once you find the cabinet with the riddle, go to the stairs and climb up to the next floor.
2. Enter the illuminated open room with mannequins. Take the flashlight from one of them, after that the monster will immediately attack.
3. Once you defeat the zombie, examine the box by the mirror and take the garbage chute key from there.

4. To use the key, go downstairs and look for the double doors by the reception area that lead into an alley. There are several trash cans there - one of them can be moved.

5. Move the container to an open window. rooms 112 and get into the room.

6. Move to the right along the corridor to the grate, behind which lies another key.

You won't be able to pick up the item right away: a cutscene will start where the girl will throw the key away and run away. You won't be able to get it the same way, you'll have to go around the entire wing:

1. Open the door closest to the grate and go outside where the trash can was moved.
2. Head to the southern entrance to enter the hallway where the room 107.
3. Near this room you will find the same grate where you lost the key last time - this time you can pick it up.
4. There is another item nearby that is needed to solve the puzzle: turn around and enter room 108, where you will find a cabinet with gilded handles. In one of them lies a golden apple, which will be needed later.

Next you need to get key to room 212, from where you can already get to the man's coin:

1. Go up to the second floor and head into the hallway behind the locked double doors, opening the lock with the key you found earlier.
2. Check out the laundry room next to the sign with rooms 213-202 listed on it.
3. Inside, look into the garbage chute, where you will see the next coin. You won't be able to get it now - you will be able to get it out of there in the future, when you get to the third floor.
4. Go back to the corridor and visit room 213.

5. Squeeze through the gap into the next area where you will find a pistol.
6. Once you pick up the weapon, go back to apartment 213 and take it. key to room 212 on the table next to the working TV.
7. Head to the right room and you will come out onto the balcony. Use it to get to apartment 208.
8. Go to the cabinet and insert the golden apple that you previously picked up in room 108 into it.

9. Once you open the chest of drawers, approach the crack in the wall and look into the next room. After that, you can move the furniture and get into apartment 206.

The room is covered with strange writings, and in the center there is a locked safe. The combination depends on the difficulty level you are playing the game on, you can find it out by matching the lines in the poem with the numbers on the wall. Turn the lock clockwise and counterclockwise to open the box:

• On low difficulty the combination is: 15 - 11 - 13.
• On medium and high, enter another code: 13 - 7 - 11.

Pick up in the safe coin Sword Man and a key with which you can open the nearest door and get out into the corridor.

Coin Girl

To get the Girl coin, you will need get it out of the garbage chute, by performing several non-obvious actions:

1. Head to room 205 and pick up key to the stairs from a chair in the center of the room.

2. Return to the corridor and head north, all the way until you come across a door with a padlock.

3. Open it and go up to the third floor. Fighting off monsters, go from room 311 to 309, from there to 310.
4. Get through the balcony into room 312.
5. On the floor you will find a bloody trail leading to a ventilation hole - crawl through it and you will find yourself in a utility room.
6. Find a juice box on the table - pick it up and throw it into the nearest garbage chute.

7. You will see a cutscene of the coin and other trash falling out onto the street.

All that's left is to go down to the street where the tanks for the previous quest item were being moved and pick up coin Grave Girl from the ground.

Snake Coin

The simplest coin lies in a stroller in the courtyardTo get it, do the following:

1. Head to room 116, where you will find a corpse in the refrigerator and the character Eddie in the bathroom.
2. Once you finish watching the cutscene, jump out the window into the courtyard.
3. There is a red stroller inside the drained pool, and several zombies are walking around nearby.
4. Destroy your opponents or quickly run between them.
5. Go to the stroller and take it from there. snake-flower coin.

If the monsters are still alive, don't hesitate and immediately return to the building, to the cabinet by the reception.

How to Solve the Coin Locker Puzzle in Silent Hill 2: Remake

Once you have found all the quest items, return to in the closet at the reception and interact with it. To solve the puzzle, you need to insert the coins into the recesses in the correct order, focusing on the poems that appear above the cabinet. Objects can be turned over to get different combinations.

The solutions vary depending on the difficulty level, but the final coin can be anything — the choice depends on the player and his vision of the story that unfolds in verse.

The choice in this riddle is small, but will affect the ending, so take the decision carefully. On the other hand, the subsequent choices that the game will offer will have a greater impact on the story, so you can give preference to any coin.

• If put Snake coin at the end of the puzzle, the hero will come closer to the canonical ending "Farewell".
• Coin of a Man in the last slot, it leads to an ambiguous ending, “In the Water.”
• Coin of the Girl - to a bad outcome "Maria".

Easy difficulty

Insert the items as follows if you are playing the game on Easy difficulty.

Standard difficulty

The verses, as well as the sequence of inserting coins at the middle level, are slightly different.

Hard difficulty

On hard, the solution to the riddle is as follows.

We hope this guide was useful and helped you figure out how to solve the coin puzzle in Silent Hill 2: Remake, find all the quest items and insert them into the cabinet in the right order. Write comments, if you have any questions about the manual, and read our other articles about Silent Hill 2: Remake in the relevant section of the website.