How to solve Hogwarts Legacy door puzzles

Hogwarts Legacy puzzle doors look impossible to open at first but that's because there's little help to guide you, and you need to find a hidden cipher that explains how the doors and their symbols work. This paper scrap is easily-missed and without it you'll just be guessing.

Alohomora isn't going to help you unlock this door the way it does with the Hogwarts Legacy level 1 locks. To open puzzle doors you just need to be able to count to nine as those creature drawings and symbol simply correlates a number, and opening them is just a case of counting the symbols from left to right and then doing the sum those numbers give you.

If you're looking for help with some of the other challenges, I can help you with Hogwarts Legacy quiz answers, Hogwarts Legacy Merlin Trials, and plenty more besides. For now though, let's crack those Hogwarts Legacy puzzle door sums and get to the high-level loot.

We've a detailed explanation below you can skip to if you want but for now let's take a look at the whole process from start to finish.

How to find the code for Hogwarts Legacy puzzle doors

There is a piece of paper that explains how to solve the puzzle doors in Hogwarts Legacy, but you're never explicitly told about. Instead it's basically luck as to when you eventually stumble on it.

If you want to find the Hogwarts Legacy door puzzle cipher page, then follow these instructions:

1. Fast travel to the Divination Classroom Floo Flame, which is within the Library Annex.
2. Turn around and head back through the door behind you and along the wooden walkway

3. When you reach a junction, take the right turning and go along until you see a small landing with a chalkboard next to a puzzle door

4. 4. Look to the right of the chalkboard and you'll see a blue box. Search it and you'll find the cipher page

Once you find the code you'll see it explains that each magical beasts around the outside of the doors has a numerical value. They seem to correlate to the number of legs or appendages that creature has, although number 6 and 7 are a bit confusing. Essentially all you need to do is count around the edge of the door to give each symbol a value, starting from zero.

1. Demiguise
2. Unicorn
3. Graphorn
4. Runespoor
5. Fwooper
6. Quintaped
7. Salamander
8. Grindylow
9. Spider/Acromantula
10. Hydra

How to open Hogwarts Legacy puzzle doors

You don't need the explanation to open the puzzle doors in Hogwarts Legacy. You can simply count the creatures around the edge, starting with zero, to find out what number each symbolizes. This is key to solving the numerical puzzles that open the doors themselves.

You'll need to interact with the door to first to reveal the puzzle and show you two triangle patterns that spell out an equation. You then need the three outside numbers to add up to the inner number, with some numbers are represented by beasts instead.

So, let's take this door as an example:

For the top triangle, it works out as:

2 + Hydra (3) + ? = 9

So you'd need the ? to equal 4, which is the owl-like symbol. Turn the ? block to that.

For the bottom triangle, it works out as:

0 + 1 + ?? = 4

So that means the ?? must need to be 3, or the Hydra symbol. Turn the ?? to that.

With those in place the door will swing open. It's simply just about getting all the numbers around each triangle to add up to the one in the centre. Easy when you know what the beasts actually mean. Behind the Arithmancy puzzle doors in Hogwarts Legacy is a room with gear and chests for you to loot.