Silent Hill f altar puzzle solution

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The Silent Hill f altar puzzle appears when you first visit the otherworld, and have the objective to find a way out. In your way is an alter where you need to place five offerings and, while it isn't immediately obvious, each offering has a symbol that matches one of the podiums, telling you where to put it. So let me explain how you can find out where to place each of the offerings and solve the altar puzzle in Silent Hill f.

How to solve the Silent Hill f altar puzzle solution

This is the correct order to place the offerings on the altar in Silent Hill f from left to right:

1. Fan
2. Dried fish
3. Bottle
4. Dead bird
5. Dead mouse

The clue in your journal just talks about a restless heart and cleansing your soul, so it's more of a distraction than a help. However, each podium where you can place an offering has a small symbol embossed on it - bamboo, a tree, large flowers, small flowers and a leaf. If you pick up each offering and examine it, using the options you're given, you'll be able to find a symbol somewhere on it to match each one to a podium, which gives you the order above.

For example, if you pick up the fan and spin it around you'll see the same bamboo pattern embossed on the side as appears on the first podium - so that's where it goes.

silent hill f altar puzzle solution for the fan — (Image credit: Konami)

Now it's just a case of finding the rest of the offerings' symbols and matching them to podiums, which are as follows in Silent Hill f:

Fan - Bamboo (on the edge)
Dried fish - Tree (where the wrapping is folded)
Bottle - Large flower (on the base)
Dead bird - Small flower (on the back of the paper gown)
Dead mouse - Leaf (on the wrapping)

Get them all in the right place and you'll solve the puzzle, instantly triggering a cutscene and moving on to the next part of the story. Soon you'll be trying to open the shrine vault in Silent Hill f and, after that, dealing with a tricky Silent Hill f Scarecrow puzzle, both of which are very different to this little challenge.