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Jan 01, 2024

How To Solve The Chess Plug Puzzle In The Resident Evil 2 Remake

Thankfully, chess skills aren't required to complete this puzzle. Throughout the

Thankfully, chess skills aren't required to complete this puzzle.

Throughout the Resident Evil 2 Remake, Leon and Claire find themselves in some of the most oddly-designed locations ever. This is because these places are filled with unusual puzzles that no real architect would ever implement.

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For example, while down in the sewers, you find a locked door that can only be opened by placing chess-piece-inspired plugs into six separate panels. And you can't just put them in randomly. Each plug has to go in a specific panel. So, it's a typical wacky Resident Evil puzzle. In fact, it's one of the more head-scratching ones in the game. As such, this is everything you need to know to complete it.

When you first reach the room with the chess puzzle, you won't have all the plugs required to complete it.

You need to continue on with your adventure to get them.

To reach the missing plugs, you need the T-Bar valve, which is sitting next to the cable car.

Both the King and Queen plugs are in the Supplies Storage Room. To get there, you must go through the Bottom Waterway, which you gain access to with the T-Bar Valve.

The Supplies Storage room is one big puzzle in its own right.

To start, go down the stairs, turn left, head through the opening, and turn left again to find the Queen Plug.

Once you do, the gate you entered will close. So, head the only way you can go.

You will find another panel close by, and you must insert the Queen Plug into it. This will open another gate.

Walk through it and go up the stairs where you will find the King Plug. Grab it and then drop down to the area below using the opening nearby.

When you're down there, run through the gate already opened by the Queen and look for another panel on the left.

Put the King Plug in it to gain access to a new weapon.

Then go back the way you came and pick up both the King and Queen Plugs on the way.

Return to where you originally acquired the Queen Plug and put it back there.

Then go through the gate it opens, and put the King Plug in the panel near the stairs where you originally entered.

Head through the gate opened by the King to go back around and grab the Queen. Following that, go back and get the King before heading back up the stairs to leave.

Thankfully, the Rook Plug is much easier to reach than the King and Queen ones. You simply need to reach the Workroom Lift with the help of the T-Bar Valve.

The lift will take you to the Workroom. Go through that room to find the Rook on the other side of it, plugged into a panel.

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The solution to this puzzle is different depending on whether you're on your first or second run. Here's how to solve them both:

If you can't tell which plug is which from looks alone, examine them in your inventory to find out their names.

The clue found on the notice board on the first run says:

"Pretty Sure The Rook And Knight Are On The Same Wall And The Bishop And Queen Aren't Next To Each Other. The Queen And Rook Were Opposite Each Other, Too."

The answer is:

The clue found on the notice board on the second run says:

"The Rook's Next To The Kinght, But Not Facing The Queen. The King Ain't Next To The Queen, But Facing The Knight, Right At The End, And The Knight Ain't Where The Case Marking Says."

The answer is:

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Ben Jessey spends all his time playing video games, watching TV, watching movies, watching football aka soccer (which I guess counts as watching TV) or writing about those things. He has a degree in Film and Television studies and is now a freelance writer.