A guide to all RE4 puzzles!

Resident Evil 4 (2005)5 · 249 ratings7.9k views490 favorites3 min readby kisolliUpdated Aug 4, 2023View on Steam ↗

Chapter 1-2: Green Orb Door

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In order to get past the door you simply need to:

1. Move the orb up once.
2. Move the orb left once.
After doing those 2 simple steps you get..

Chapter 1-3: Church Dial

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This is an optional puzzle located behind the church in Chapter 1-3, to solve it you need to rotate the dial in the following order:

1. 3 increments.
2. 3 increments.
3. 3 increments.
4. 4 increments.
5. 4 increments.
6. 4 increments.
7. 3 increments.
After you rotate the dial 7 times in the given order your reward is

Chapter 2-1: Church RGB Lights

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This puzzle is located on the upper level of the church and here's the solution:

1. Rotate red 2 times.
2. Rotate green 3 times.
3. Rotate blue 1 time.
Final Red/Blue/Green shows what it should look like after you have rotated.

Your reward :)

Chapter 3-2: Portrait Puzzle

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This puzzle is located in the castle gallery after killing a cult leader and obtaining his key and this is the solution:

1. Press 1
2. Press 2
3. Press 3
4. Press 4
Final Result:
After finishing this puzzle you unlock a hidden door to access the rest of the castle.

Chapter 3-3: Last Dinner

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This is located right after Salazar's bedroom and is very simple.

1. Ring this bell.
2. Shoot the wine.
Doing this will unlock the door to the left of the last dinner corridor.

Chapter 3-4: Ashley's Knight Tiles

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This is the puzzle found in Ashley's segment of the game in chapter 3-4 and what inspired the creation of this guide so here's how to solve it. The square tiles will be labelled as the following:

1 | 2 | 3
4 | 5 | 6
7 | 8 | 9

Rearrange the tiles by selecting them in this order:

4,7,8,9,6,3,2,1,4,7,8,9 after rearranging the tiles in this order you can add the final piece.

Thank you Conan for the simpler and more efficient answer!


Chapter 5-1: Coloured Panels

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This is a puzzle found when you first enter the labs of the island in an autopsy room and here's the solution:

1. Press blue 1 time.
2. Press green 2 times.

3. Press red 3 times.

After completing this puzzle the door the rest of the lab will open!

Separate Ways Chapter 1: Church Dial

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This puzzle is located in Mission 1 of Separate Ways behind the church and has the same solution from Chapter 1-3 However before you can solve it you need to go past the church and to the bridge, at the end of the bridge you will find a green catseye you need to pick up to replace the round insignia.

After picking it up you can go back and solve the dial puzzle. The solution is the same as Chapter 1-3.

3-3-3-4-4-4-3

Separate Ways Chapter 1: Church RGB Lights

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This puzzle is located on the upper level of the church in Mission 1 but does not have the same solution as the main game so here's how to do it: 1. Turn red 3 times.
2. Turn green 1 time.
3. Turn blue 2 times.

Hope it helps!

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