PUZZLE: CREMATORIUM OVEN DOOR (BASEMENT 3) [puz_04]

A complete guide to solving the Silent Hill 3 Crematorium Oven Door puzzle on Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties, including riddle solutions and gurney corpse matching.

This guide covers the puzzle found on the oven door in the crematorium on Basement 3 of Silent Hill 3. The solution varies depending on your chosen difficulty level.

Easy Difficulty: The oven door is unlocked and contains a key. No puzzle is present.

Normal Difficulty: The oven door displays a 4x3 chart with Roman numerals I, II, III, and IV in randomized slots. Around the room are 10 gurneys, numbered 0 through 9. Four of these gurneys have covered corpses, while the other six are empty. To solve the puzzle, match the position of each Roman numeral on the oven door to the corresponding gurney position. The gurney with a covered corpse in that position will provide the first digit of the code. Repeat this for all four Roman numerals to obtain the four-digit code. For example, if 'I' is in the position of gurney '5', 'II' in the position of gurney '1', 'III' in the position of gurney '7', and 'IV' in the position of gurney '2', the code would be 5172. One of the numbers in the code will always correspond to Stanley Coleman.

Hard Difficulty: The oven door features a five-verse riddle based on the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin?". Each of the 10 gurneys has a brief poem related to a character from the rhyme. The first four verses on the oven door describe specific characters. Your task is to match these verses to the correct characters based on the memos found on the gurneys. The code is formed by the gurney numbers of the matched corpses, in the order the verses appear on the oven door. The riddle verses and their corresponding character matches are as follows:

1. Verse A (Pure, adored by those above) matches gurney 9 (The Wren).
2. Verse B (The flames longing for his rebirth) matches gurney 2 (The Owl).
3. Verse C (Make it wind, dancing in the sky) matches gurney 7 (The Linnet).
4. Verse D (The sweet blood on his laughing lips) matches gurney 1 (The Sparrow).

The resulting code is derived from the gurney numbers in the order A, B, C, D: 9271.