Alan Wake 2: All Cult Stash Locations & Puzzle Solutions

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Cult Stashes are sources of loot in , but these locations are locked until you complete simple puzzles with different solutions. Scattered across three different regions, each Stash has unique rewards that range from basic items to special upgrades and weapons. A final key given from the last Cult storage space lets you access an area on one map you could not reach normally throughout the story.

There are 22 Cult Stashes in the Watery, Bright Falls, and Cauldron Lake areas, marked on your map as small container symbols. Some of these locations can be among the hardest-to-find collectibles in , especially if you don't have items like the Bolt Cutters to reach certain spots. You can actually reveal the Cult Stash icons on every region by finding a series of maps inside the Kalevala Knights Workshop in .

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Only five Cult Stashes are found in 's first area, with a few containers you can only reach by progressing through the story. Every puzzle for a Stash depends on the padlock, which either showcased numbers, symbols, or sometimes even an entire keypad. There are four different types of Stash puzzles, ranging from math problems to a mini-game of Simon Says with flashing symbols.

Cult Stash

Location

Map Image

How to Solve Puzzle

Cult Stash #1

At the Murder Site below the General Store building, in front of a yellow trailer.

Arrange the padlock from top to bottom like this — Up and Down Corner Connected Triangles, Hourglass, and Left and Right Joined Triangles.

Cult Stash #2

Toward the very southwest corner of Cauldron Lake Shore, but only after you reduce flooding in the area.

Press the buttons in the order they light up at first in this Simon Says puzzle.

Cult Stash #3

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