This article is about a puzzle from Silent Hill 3, and is therefore written like a guide.

During Heather Mason's run in Brookhaven Hospital in Silent Hill 3, she comes across a door that must be unlocked using a Keypad. The door leads to the second floor patient wing, and must be solved for Heather to progress through the hospital. The keypad consists of buttons numbered from 1 to 9, and the clues to solving the puzzle are found on a nearby stretcher and chalkboard.

Contents 1 Solution 1.1 Easy 1.2 Normal 1.3 Hard

SolutionEdit

The clues and solutions to the puzzle differ depending on which puzzle difficulty is chosen. The process naturally increases in complexity the higher the difficulty level is set, however the answer is always a four-numbered sequence.

EasyEdit

On Easy difficulty the memo on the stretcher will contain a simple poem. The poem reads:

The solution to the puzzle lies in guessing the correct number to start with. According to the first line, the initial button must allow you to move twice to the right, meaning it is 1, 4, or 7. The second line then instructs to move up once, meaning the initial button must have been either 4 or 7. The third line requires two moves down, meaning the initial button pressed must have been 4.

By starting at four and following the directions exactly, we are left with the final code of 4639

NormalEdit

On Normal difficulty the memo with the clue to solving the puzzle is found on a nearby chalkboard; the memo reads:

"The first is larger than the second;

the second twice the third;

the third smaller than the fourth;

the fourth is half the first.

Four of the numbers are not repeated

Three are not in the top row

Two are not in the right row

One of the numbers is the final key"

According to the first paragraph, the "fourth is half the first," which means that the first number must be even for the fourth number to be a whole number. Since the first number is double the last, and the highest even number is 8, then the first number is 8, 6, 4, 2 or 1 and the last number is 4, 3, 2 or 1. The line "the third is smaller than the fourth" means the fourth number cannot be 1 and the third number is 3 or lower. The line above reading "the second is twice the third" means the second number is either 6, 4 or 2, and the line "the first is larger than the second" means that first number must be higher than 6. The middle two lines also eliminate 3 and 2 as the last numbers, as

Though the directions taken together are confusing, the key is simplifying the clues and the solution can be found using only the first paragraph. The above directions can be simplified in in the following:

first number: 4 or more

second number: 2, 4 or 6

third number: 3 or less

last number: 4

Using the above and simple guess-and-check, the solutions is found to be 8634

HardEdit

On Hard difficulty the clue to solve the puzzle will be one of Stanley Coleman's diary entries addressed to Heather. The diary reads:

"Pure eyes, blue like a glassy bead---

You are always looking at me

and I am always looking at you.

Ah, you're too meek---

beautiful, unspoiled:

thus I'm so sad, I suffer---

and so happy, it hurts.

I want to hurt you

and destroy myself

What you would think

if you knew how I felt.

Would you simply smile,

not saying a word?

Even curses from your mouth

would be as beautiful as pearls.

I place my left hand on your

face as though we were to kiss.

Then I suddenly shove my thumb

deep into your eyesocket.

Abruptly, decisively,

like drilling a hole.

And what would it feel like?

Like jelly?

Trembling with ecstasy, I obscenely

mix it around and around: I must

taste the warmth of your blood.

How would you scream?

Would you shriek "It hurts!

It hurts!" as cinnabar-red tears

stream from your crushed eye?

You can't know the maddening

hunger I've felt in the midst of

our kisses, so many of them

I've lost count.

As though drinking in your cries,

I bring my hopes to fruition:

biting your tongue, shredding it,

biting at your lips as if tasting

your lipstick.

Oh, what euphoric heights I would

reach, having my desires fulfilled

like a greedy, gluttonous cur.

I longed, too, for your cherry-tinted

cheeks, tasty enough to bewitch my

tongue.

I would surely be healed,

and would cry like a child.

And how is your tender ear?

It brushes against my cheek;

I want it to creep up to my lips so

I can sink my teeth into its flesh.

Your left ear, always hearing words

whispered sweet as pie---

I want it to hear my true feelings.

I never lied, no...

but I did have my secrets.

Ah, but what must you think of me?

Do you hate me? Are you afraid?

As though inviting you to the agony

at the play's end, if you wish, you

could destroy me---I wouldn't care.

As you wish, you may destroy me

---I wouldn't care."

The ode, sadistic as it may be, is actually a representation of the correct keys and order that must be pressed. Stanley pays particular attention to Heather's face, and when the face is roughly compared to the nine keys, the layout of the key pad becomes:

1 Right Eye	2 Nosebridge	3 Left Eye
4 Right Ear	5 Nose	6 Left Ear
7 Cheek	8 Mouth	9 Cheek

Following Stanley's graphic imagery, the order in which he tastes from Heather's "face" is the solution to the puzzle. Imagine that you are Stanley and that the keypad is Heather's face. If Stanley mentions a part of Heather's face but doesn't actually taste from it, simply ignore it.

• Stanley places his left hand on her face and digs his thumb into her eye socket, which in this case would be 1. "Cinnabar-red tears stream from [Heather's] eye" and he says he is "...drinking [Heather's] cries". He does not taste from her eye socket -- he's licking Heather's tears. In this case the blood flows down to the number below 1, which is 4.

• Stanley next mentions "biting your tongue, shredding it". The tongue is located in the mouth, which in this case is the number 8.

• Stanley says "...cheeks, tasty enough to bewitch my tongue" thus the next number must either be 7 or 9.

• Stanley mentions Heather's "tender ear" and then "sinking his teeth" into it. He then reveals that it was her left ear. The left ear in this case refers to 6.

After putting the clues together, the correct combination will either be 4876 or 4896, and after guessing and checking for the correct third number, the proper sequence is found to be 4896.