Ben Carter
In Resident Evil 7, players must solve a series of puzzles set up by Lucas, a member of the Baker family. One of these puzzles involves lighting a candle and placing it on a birthday cake in a room filled with motion-activated sprinklers. The puzzle is first introduced through the Happy Birthday tape found in the Kid's Room Attic. Players must use their problem-solving skills and the items they find in the game to navigate through the challenges and progress in the game.
| Characteristics | Values |
|---|---|
| Puzzle Name | Happy Birthday Puzzle |
| Puzzle Setter | Lucas |
| Puzzle Setter's Family | Baker |
| Puzzle Setter's Relation to Puzzle Setter's Family | Oldest Child |
| Puzzle Setter's Victim | Clancy |
| Puzzle Setter's Victim's Fate | Death |
| Puzzle Setter's Trap | Room |
| Puzzle Objective | Place a lit candle on the birthday cake |
| Obstacles | Motion-activated sprinklers |
| Obstacles | Locked doors |
| Obstacles | Inflated balloons |
| Solution | Turn off sprinklers |
| Solution | Obtain a key |
| Solution | Light the candle |
| Solution | Place the candle on the birthday cake |
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What You'll Learn
Get the candle from the clown
To get the candle from the clown in Resident Evil 7, you must first overcome your instincts and approach the corpse clown. Take the candle from its hand.
After this, you must head to the room with the birthday cake. As you enter, sprinklers will douse you with water, extinguishing the candle. Lucas will explain that you must leave a lit candle on the cake to "win".
Exit the room and go into the kitchen. Turn on the stove and use the flame to relight the candle. Now that the candle is lit, you can explore the rest of the area.
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Turn off the water sprayers
To turn off the water sprayers in the Resident Evil 7 candle puzzle, follow these steps:
First, grab the candle from the clown mannequin near the entrance. With the candle in hand, make your way towards the birthday cake in the next room. As you walk through the doorway, motion-activated sprinklers will douse your candle.
After the sprayers extinguish your candle, stay in the room with the cake. Head towards the barrel and take the winding key. Take note of the locked box on the wall, but for now, you'll need to head back to the kitchen area.
In the kitchen, turn on the stove and relight your candle. Now, you'll need to find the source of the water flow to the sprayers.
Leave the kitchen and go to the room with the gas pipe and the bank of monitors. Walk to the door on the right side of the monitors. Use your lit candle to burn the rope that is holding the door shut.
Enter the room and look for a deflated yellow balloon on the floor near the table. Take the balloon back to the bank of monitors. Turn left and fill the balloon with gas from the pipe on the wall. The balloon will eventually pop, and you will be left with a quill pen.
Now that you have the quill pen, you can return to the pipe and use the winding key to turn off the water flow to the sprayers.
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Retrieve the dirty telescope
To retrieve the dirty telescope in Resident Evil 7, you must first locate it in the toilet of the Party Room. Flush the toilet and retrieve the dirty telescope from the basin.
The telescope is covered in a dirty substance, and you must clean it before you can see through it. To do this, you need to go to the corridor by the birthday cake and stand by the flowing showers. Equip the dirty telescope while under the shower to clean it.
Once the telescope is clean, you can use it to see hidden symbols on the television screens in the central room. These symbols are needed to unlock a nearby padlocked box in the Cake Room that contains the Straw Doll.
The symbols you see through the telescope could appear as a swinging child, a crow on a rock or bell, and a fetus. Input these symbols into the lock in the Cake Room to open it and retrieve the Straw Doll.
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Light the candle and burn the rope
To beat the candle puzzle in Resident Evil 7, you must first grab the candle from the clown model's hand. Then, head to the kitchen and turn on the stove. Use the candle to light it, and make your way to the doorway to the north. Burn the rope holding the door shut.
Enter the room, which is full of balloons. You can choose to ignore them, or you can crouch down and pop them with your candle. On the floor to the right of the table, you'll find a deflated yellow balloon. Take this balloon back to the bank of monitors. Fill the balloon with gas from the pipe on the wall, which will eventually cause it to pop and reveal a quill pen inside.
Now, return to the room with the birthday cake. Light the candle from the stove in the kitchen and take it back to the cake. After the tape ends, hit the tape recorder to save, then get ready for Lucas' party.
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Place the candle on the cake
To place the candle on the birthday cake in Resident Evil 7, you must first obtain the candle from the clown mannequin near the room's entrance. The sprinklers in the doorway will extinguish your candle, so you will need to relight it in the kitchen using the stove.
Once you have a lit candle, you can burn the rope on the door that leads to the balloons. Enter the passcode on the door with the Valve Handle inside. This will allow you to turn off the sprinklers. Now, relight your candle one last time and place it on the cake.
However, placing the candle on the cake is not the end. The cake will detonate, igniting the oil in the room and cooking the character alive. To survive the puzzle, you must place Lucas' bomb in the hole in the wall by the oil barrel in the Birthday Cake room.
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Frequently asked questions
The candle puzzle starts when you play the Happy Birthday VHS tape found in the Kid's Room Attic.
The objective is to place a lit candle on the birthday cake.
Lucas has set up motion-activated sprinklers that douse the candle anytime you try to move through them.
Take the lit candle from the clown mannequin to the room with the birthday cake. After Lucas finishes taunting you, grab the Winding Key out of the large barrel on the nearby table. Head back to the mannequin and flush the toilet to the left of it to obtain the Dirty Telescope. Install the Dirty Telescope in the pipe to turn off the flow of water to the sprinklers.
Light the candle at the stove and take it back to the cake.
