Claire
85 ratings
Claire Puzzle Guide
By Oreo
So I decided to make a guide for Claire for those of you who gets stuck on a puzzle, I took a bunch of screenshots of me solving them so I hope it helps someone. Hopefully I haven't missed anything, if I did feel free to correct me.
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Hospital Puzzles
The first area in Claire.

1st Puzzle : Clock Puzzle (Hospital 1st Area)
Explanation: So you can find an alarm stuck on 3:30 close to the door where you use the doctor keycard. That's the time you set the clock to.
Prize: A butterfly.

2nd Puzzle : Portrait Puzzle (Hospital 2nd Area)
Explanation: You solve this one by flipping over the portraits of those who are alive, leaving only the deceased showing.
Prize: Founder's key. (Item required to proceed in the game).

3rd Puzzle: Power Puzzle (Hospital 3rd Area)
Explanation: You solve this by increasing or decreasing the power in the correct order.
1. Increase power.
2. Decrease power.
3. Increase power x2.
4. Decrease power x2.
5. Increase power.
Prize: You can continue the game.
School Puzzles
4th Puzzle : Chess Puzzle (School 1st Area)
Explanation: You solve this one by.. I have no idea. Honestly all I did was spam everything until it worked. All I truely knew was that the broken piece was last. The correct order is: Peon, horse, tower, jester, queen and broken piece.
Prize: A butterfly.

5th Puzzle : Piano Puzzle (School 1st Area)
Explanation: So I tried mashing random keys, I'm assuming the hint is the bear song playing on the TV next to you. There's 3 keys you can press, left is 1, middle is 2 and right is 3. This is the correct order to solve the puzzle: 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1.
PS: If it doesn't work, it might be because of the E key. Try switching controls for it in the options and trying again. That or you messed up the order by accident.
Prize: Bolt cutters. (Item required to proceed in the game)
Apartments Puzzles
6th Puzzle : House Puzzle (Apartments 1st Floor)
Explanation: So for this puzzle, you have to look at the writings on the walls scattered around the rooms surrounding the doll house. Tammy slips on the wet floor (Bathroom). The dad goes upstairs and shoots himself (2nd floor bed room) and the mother is stabbed by a kitchen knife (Kitchen). That's where you're supposed to set the candles.
Prize: Boxcutter Item used to save someone on the 2nd floor of the apartments

7th Puzzle : Panels Puzzle (Apartments 1st Floor)
Explanation: Those 5 panels (Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) all represents the 5 stages of loss and grief. All you have to do is touch them in order, which is the order I gave in the first place.
Prize: Hosting key. (Item required to proceed in the game)

8th Puzzle : Valve Puzzle (Apartments 2nd Floor)
Explanation: Just like the chess puzzle, I went with trial and error. I'm not sure where I could've got a hint for it, thankfully it was easy to do in a way. All you have to do is turn the valves so that little pin faces the right way.
Edit: Adelion brought up a theory that makes a lot of sense, read at your own risk as it is massive spoilers: It could be the time where Claire tried to commit suicide. (3:33 as it's shown frequently in the hospital). The right valve is the clock marker and the left one is the minute one.
Prize: A beating heart, a key item to break the sigil and proceed in the game
46 Comments
Drako 21 Feb, 2021 @ 3:24am 
No words for the huge help you gave me! Thanks for taking the time to make it and help ALL the community of this game. Again thanks a lot for this guide!:2018bestaward:
PS I read the spoiler of the last puzzle after beating the game and it makes a loooot of sense!:2016imnotcrying:
Ashy Slashy 27 Dec, 2020 @ 12:03pm 
The Chess puzzle was like..meh. Thanks sir :D
Baiku 9 Apr, 2020 @ 7:53am 
I set the clock to 3:30 but no butterfly came out. Any ideas as to why?
myRAYgame 8 Apr, 2018 @ 6:39pm 
This guide helped me out with my playthrough, first run I got ending B (afterlife) and only needed help twice. I knew the boxcutters were to save someone, but I couldn't find them in a fit of trying to beat the game. (rip) Still got a save before beating it so I can find the last one.
Oreo  [author] 22 Jan, 2018 @ 8:12am 
Glad I could be of help! Game was pretty good, had a lot of fun with it a few years back.
DAC 22 Jan, 2018 @ 5:59am 
this helped me a ton and after the ending (i got a double aa playing as blind as i could but i kept getting stuck v.v;;; ) i read the spoiler and im like that makes sooooo much sense now plus all through out the game all the clocks said 3:33 i know it's a subtle background detail but chya this thread enriched my experience thanks so much!!!! (also i cried v.v;;;;; )
LiteColDonut 10 Jul, 2017 @ 3:26pm 
Puzzle 8 is about the 5 stages of loss,
Oreo  [author] 29 Oct, 2016 @ 2:27pm 
That is the name of my guide :P
masha_catmur 24 May, 2016 @ 1:13pm 
Thank you so much for the walkthrough! I very long searched for the decision of puzzles ^__^
Oreo  [author] 2 Jan, 2016 @ 10:17am 
I'm glad I could be of some help, back when the game was released I was completely crazy over it, made those guides within the first week~ I might get around and finish my soul guide someday, I'm just really hard to motivate haha.