Silent Hill Townfall: Upper Brae tape player puzzle guide

Silent Hill Townfall: How to Solve the 5 Upper Brae Tape Player Puzzle

The 5 Upper Brae tape player puzzle is one of three locker barcode challenges in Part 4 of Silent Hill Townfall, and arguably the most clever of the bunch. By swapping tapes in a transcription player, you can shift the same house between three points in time — today, yesterday, and tomorrow — and watch it change state around you.

If you've found yourself tangled up between timelines, here's a full walkthrough of the puzzle, including the three-digit code for the locked file box.

What You'll Find Inside 5 Upper Brae

Once you get through the door, the house holds several useful items worth grabbing before you start:

• A box in the kitchen with two Pistol Rounds and one Flare Round.
• In the lounge, a save phone plus an answer machine carrying messages from Zoe and Richard.
• Alcohol and Gauze in the bathroom.
• Upstairs in the office, a transcription player, a note reading "Today, my number was" (with the number blurred out), and a locked file box that needs a three-digit code.

Step-by-Step Puzzle Solution

The puzzle itself isn't difficult, but hopping between timelines makes it easy to lose track. Start by collecting Tape: Today from the transcription player, then follow these steps:

1. Head into the children's bedroom and grab Tape: Yesterday from the lockbox.
2. Slot Tape: Yesterday into the transcription player — the house will shift to a different time.
3. Pick up Tape: Tomorrow from the lockbox in the lounge.
4. In the kitchen, grab the note reading "Today my number was 192".
5. Swap in Tape: Tomorrow to transform the house again.
6. Collect Tape: Do Not Play from the kitchen lockbox.
7. In the lounge, take the note reading "Today my number was 125".
8. Load Tape: Do Not Play into the player, and the house shifts once more.
9. Grab the 5 Upper Brae's Back Door Key from the kitchen.
10. Insert Tape: Today, then head to the garden shed to collect the Ammonite Disk.
11. Switch back to Tape: Yesterday and turn on the PC.
12. Insert the Ammonite Disk into the Disk Reader next to the PC.
13. Open the "Current Count" email — this is where the two number notes come into play.

Cracking the File Box Code

Here's the logic: the email shows today's count, and the notes told us tomorrow's number was 192 and yesterday's was 125. The only number in the email that falls between those two values is 129 — and that's your file box code.

Load Tape: Today back into the transcription player, punch 129 into the locked file box, and claim the Locker 94 barcode waiting inside.

What Comes Next

With the barcode in hand, return to the CEG Lockers — but Clara Woods' story isn't finished yet. A third and final locker barcode still needs to be collected, and that one waits at 6 North Brae. If you need more help finding your way around St. Amelia, the full collection of Silent Hill Townfall tips, tricks, and guides has you covered.

Source: Eurogamer