Music Box Puzzle (Hotel)

On this page, you will find the complete solution to the Lakeview Hotel music box puzzle in Silent Hill 2 Remake (2024) on all difficulty levels (light, standard, hard).

You will find a locked music box in the main lobby of the hotel. To solve the puzzle, you need to find three figurines, insert them into the music box correctly and then turn each key a certain number of times to grant you the 3F Corridor Key.

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Collecting the Figurines
Setting up the Discs
Solution:
- Light
- Standard
- Hard

Collecting the Figurines

Before you can proceed with the puzzle, you must collect three figurines:

The Snow White Figurine is found on the table in Room 201 after solving the Mirror Puzzle in Room 202. The Key to Hotel Room 202 is found on a couch in the Hall on the second floor, where you can also find one of the apples needed for the puzzle. Another apple can be found on a bench in the eastern part of the garden.

The Cinderella Figurine is locked inside the fireplace in the Conference Room on the third floor. The Fireplace Key is in the pavilion at the back of the garden, which is reached through Room 107.

The Little Mermaid Figurine is in front of the jukebox in the Venus Tears Bar in the basement. The bar is accessed through the employee section after you leave your belongings in a cabinet and take the employee elevator on the second floor.

Setting up the Discs

Use the Ornamental Key, obtained at the Check-In, to unlock the music box. Once you've collected all three figurines, place them into the corresponding slots:

Snow White Figurine – left slot
Cinderella Figurine – right slot
The Little Mermaid Figurine – top slot

Now, you must spin the four circular plates to form uninterrupted tracks for the figurines so they can reach the doors. To do it, from the start, you can rotate the discs in the following manner:

left disc - once
top disc - thrice
right disc - once
right inner disc - five times

The tracks should now align as in the picture below. Press the button in the bottom right corner for a test to bring you to the next screen.

The final solution with the three poems will depend on your riddle difficulty level. You will need to turn each key a certain number of times per each poem. Note that you can press the red Reset button if you make a mistake when turning the keys.

Light

On light riddle difficulty, the poems will look like these:

Snow White
Once she couldn't stay
Once she lost her way
Seven kindly souls
Would not let her stray

The Little Mermaid
All that she would do
Was to yearn for two
Just to walk above
With the man she'd love

Cinderella
In the dead of night
She would take her flight
Leaving one behind
For the prince to find

Here, the solutions are very easy. Just look for the numbers in each poem. Snow White is saved from death in the forest by seven kind dwarves. The Little Mermaid yearned to have two legs to be with the prince. Cinderella left one of her glass shoes behind when fleeing from a royal ball.

The final combination for light difficulty is 7 - 2 - 1. Turn the first key seven times, the second key twice and the third key once, then press the golden button to solve the puzzle.

Standard

On standard riddle difficulty, the poems will look like these:

Snow White
What began with three
One would soon deplore
Seven kindly souls
Opened up the door

The Little Mermaid
Trading one for two
Away she would roam
But the love of five
Would bring her back home

Cinderella
Taunted by the two
She would toil away
Leaving one behind
She has found a way

Snow White’s tale begins with a queen pricking her finger while sewing in the snow, wishing for a daughter with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. She gives birth to Snow White but dies soon after. A year later, the king remarries. At seven, Snow White’s beauty surpasses her stepmother’s, sparking the queen’s envy. She orders a huntsman to kill Snow White, but he spares her. Snow White flees and finds refuge with seven kind dwarfs. The answer for the first poem is seven.

The Little Mermaid lives under the sea with her father, the Sea King, her grandmother, and five sisters. At fifteen, she is allowed to visit the surface, where she falls in love with a prince. Desperate to be with him, she trades her voice for legs in a deal with the Sea Witch. Though the prince is enchanted by her beauty and makes her his closest companion, he marries another princess. Heartbroken, the Little Mermaid faces a choice: kill the prince with a dagger her sisters obtained from the Sea Witch or sacrifice herself. Unable to harm him, she throws the dagger and herself into the sea. Instead of dying, she transforms into a spirit of the air, gaining an immortal soul as a reward for her selflessness and rejoins her five loving sisters. The answer for the second poem is five.

Cinderella is a kind girl forced into servitude by her cruel stepmother and two stepsisters after her father’s death. When the king hosts a royal ball, her fairy godmother helps her attend by transforming rags into a gown and creating a magical carriage, warning her that the spell will break at midnight. Cinderella captures the prince’s heart but flees as the clock strikes twelve, leaving one of her delicate glass slippers behind. The prince uses the slipper to find her, and they marry, granting her the happy life she deserves. The answer for the third poem is one.

The final combination for standard difficulty is 7 - 5 - 1. Turn the first key seven times, the second key five times and the third key once, then press the golden button to solve the puzzle.

Hard

On hard riddle difficulty, the poems will look like these:

Snow White
In a slumber deep
In a poisoned sleep
On a bed of stone
Dreamless, all alone

The Little Mermaid
And so she wept in silence
With no prince to marry
Her life to be forfeit
Heartbroken and solitary

Cinderella
When the clock would strike
Into the dead of night
Hastily she would delve
Alone, all by herself

The answers to these are surprisingly simple. All poems describe the states of loneliness using the words like "alone" and "solitary." The answer to every poem is, therefore, one.