Silent Hill 2 Remake: Hotel Bookshelf Puzzle Guide

Silent Hill 2 features a lot of puzzles throughout the game, some more complicated than others. But the Bookshelf Puzzle found in Lakeview Hotel isn’t as much of a head-scratcher as the other ones, and it’s fairly simple. All you need to do is rearrange some books to match a painting that’s present opposite the bookshelf.

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This puzzle is located in the second-floor Reading Room of Lakeview Hotel, and before you get to the arranging part, first you need to find all four books that need to be arranged, and once completed, it’ll reveal a secret room. So here’s how you can solve this puzzle in Silent Hill 2 without much hassle.

How To Find The Four Books For Bookshelf Puzzle

James looking at the painting consisting of a lion, an eagle, a bull and an angle with a man in the middle pierced by spears in Silent Hill 2.

The four books that you need to find are literally in the room where the painting is, so you won’t have any difficulty looking for them. Here are all their exact locations:

Pride Before the Fall – This one’s located on the bookshelf itself.
Revelations: A New Understanding – This one’s located on the table right by the bookshelf.
The One Who Soared – This book is located on the desk right beside the previous table from where you got the second book.
Stalwart to the End – This one’s located on a table to the right as soon as you enter the room.

Now that we’re done with the finding part, let’s move on to the arranging part, which is pretty simple. Observe the painting on the wall opposite the bookshelf carefully and you’ll see that it features a lion, a bull, an eagle, and a winged man, and all of these characters are present on the books’ spines. You’ll need to arrange them in a way that corresponds to their placement on the painting itself.

How To Solve The Bookshelf Puzzle In Silent Hill 2 Remake

The solved Bookshelf Puzzle in Silent Hill 2.

Now here comes the tricky part. There’s also a man in the painting that’s getting pierced by spears downwards. But the golden spear in the emblem on the bookshelf is facing upward. This means whatever the character’s placement is in the painting, their placement on the bookshelf will be opposite. So here’s exactly how you should place the books on the bookshelf:

Winged Man in the upper left slot.
Eagle in the upper right slot.
Bull in the bottom left slot.
Lion in the bottom right slot.

Place them in the specific order that’s mentioned above, and you’ll successfully solve the Bookshelf Puzzle. Once you’re done with it, it will open to reveal a secret room from where you can progress the game further and get one more step closer to reuniting with Mary.