This guide explains how to solve the Grand Staircase door puzzle in Hogwarts Legacy.
After months of waiting, Hogwarts Legacy has arrived on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. The game is proving to be a massive hit with Potter fans as they eagerly get stuck into life at the legendary school.
In Hogwarts Legacy, players join the eponymous school as a fifth-year student in the 1890s. The game is set a whole century before the Harry Potter novels and films. And this allows it to tell its own story about “a dangerous journey to uncover a hidden truth of the wizarding world.”
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive RPG that allows players to experience life as a real student. You can create your own witch or wizard, pick your own wand, and even choose one of Hogwarts’ four houses.
Once you’ve settled into the mythical school of witchcraft and wizardry, you are free to explore, attend classes, learn spells, and discover everything the Wizarding World has to offer.
Critics and fans have given the game a great reception. It offers many puzzles to solve, challenges to complete, and enemies to defeat.
One of the first types of puzzles you will encounter in Hogwarts Legacy are its enigmatic arithmancy puzzle doors.
These special locked rooms are dotted all around the castle and require a bit of brain power to solve. Thankfully, they are pretty easy once you know how.
Let’s go over how to solve the arithmancy door puzzle on the Grand Staircase in Hogwarts Legacy…
How To Solve Grand Staircase Door Puzzle in Hogwarts Legacy
There are many door puzzles to find around Hogwarts. And they require an understanding of ‘arithmancy’ to solve.
Arithmancy is the study of the magical properties of numbers. As such, opening the special locked doors requires some mathematical problem solving.
To open the doors, players must find the missing numbers in two separate math puzzles. Each puzzle consists of three numbers or corresponding symbols that add up to the sum total in the middle.
At first, they are a complete mystery. However, once you discover the arithmancy ‘cheat sheet’, things become much simpler.
The cheat sheet is inside a chest next to the blackboard directly opposite the Library Annex puzzle door. The numbers and symbols on the sheet apply to every puzzle door in Hogwarts Legacy.
This is how to solve the Grand Staircase door puzzle in Hogwarts Legacy:
Turn the two dials to match up with the symbols below –
- ? = Salamander (6)
- ?? = Octopus (7)
N.B. The ‘?’ dial can be found to the left of the door halfway up the staircase. The ‘??’ dial can be found opposite the door on the central column.
Once you have set both dials to the correct symbol, return to the door and it will open.
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