Hospital PADLOCK. Explain it to me.

[Marvdny]

Hey. Can someone tell me, why the number for the padlock is what it is (on hard)? This is the first time when I just looked up for the answer and even with the asnwer I can't still understand it. Like wtf? Please just explain it to me.

[XΞИOΛLIΞИ]

“If the second were as high as the number of nurses, I'd still be one short. With two of them dead, and one just a fraud.
The third would chop the firewood in half.
The first was singular.”



"The first was singular" means the first number of the code is '1', as singular means one.

The nurse clue can be worked out from both the text in the document and the picture of the nurses in the reception area. There are seven nurses, so the second number is '5' if you minus the one that's a fraud and minus another to be "one short".

Then for the final number, you count the trees in the picture of Brookhaven Hospital in the reception area and half the amount. So as there are four trees, the third number is '2'.

Put them together in order and you get the 'Hard' puzzle difficulty combination: 152.

[Marvdny]

Originally posted by XΞИOΛLIΞИ:

“If the second were as high as the number of nurses, I'd still be one short. With two of them dead, and one just a fraud.
The third would chop the firewood in half.
The first was singular.”



"The first was singular" means the first number of the code is '1', as singular means one.

The nurse clue can be worked out from both the text in the document and the picture of the nurses in the reception area. There are seven nurses, so the second number is '5' if you minus the one that's a fraud and minus another to be "one short".

Then for the final number, you count the trees in the picture of Brookhaven Hospital in the reception area and half the amount. So as there are four trees, the third number is '2'.

Put them together in order and you get the 'Hard' puzzle difficulty combination: 152.

Thanks for the explanation. What I missed are the pictures. Like I didn't understand "trees" etc in the hint. I looked at the picture with the trees and I was like "ok thats a nice photo" and thats it haha.

[SeleneNightwing]

I didn't even understand this myself, because it said one is fake and 2 are dead which would make 4 and then minus one which would be 3. So idk how the number is 5 at all. It makes no sense. I had to look it up online. And I still do not get it.

[Kyoki]

It's because: 7, 2 dead, one fake 7-2-1=4
And 4 is one short so 4+1=5. Because we are missing one more to be full.