Servant of the Lake Painting Puzzles: All 3 Days
Every Servant of the Lake painting and portrait puzzle solved — Day 1's 243 code, Day 2's 315 code, and Day 3's matching puzzles, all confirmed.
Servant of the Lake uses portrait and painting puzzles on all three days, and each one works differently — Day 1 is about counting gestures, Day 2 is about reading finger directions, and Day 3 is about matching pictures to labeled positions. This page breaks down all three so you're not stuck wondering which day's solution applies to what you're looking at.
Day 1: the three-portrait code (243)
Three portraits, not two, hold the clue here — an earlier version of this guide missed Alexandra's portrait entirely, which left the code impossible to fully explain. The confirmed solution, cross-checked across five independent sources:
- Alexandra: holds up 2 fingers
- William: blinks 3 times
- Aldous: shakes his pocket watch 4 times
Combined, that's the code 243. After lighting the candle with this code, a follow-up step lights three additional candles marked with scrambled arrow etchings — the correct lighting order is third, first, fourth, second, sixth, fifth.
Day 2: the silhouette lamp code (315)
Upstairs, a house painting has several windows you need to light one at a time; each family member's silhouette then points in a direction tied to a specific digit. The confirmed code is 315, resolving an earlier conflicting report of 351 — two independent walkthrough wikis both give 315 directly, so treat that as the final answer. Entering it at the servant quarters' lockbox unlocks the coffee beans.
Day 3: picture-matching puzzles
Two separate matching puzzles appear on Day 3: a river-themed painting whose picture needs to be matched to the "Water" label on a nearby board, and a hand-themed painting whose picture matches to the number 2 on the same board. These haven't yet been independently confirmed on video, so treat them as unconfirmed pending further verification, though they come from a walkthrough source consistent with the rest of this page.
If a code doesn't seem to work
Given how often these count-and-combine puzzles have produced conflicting digit orders across different sources, it's worth trying the digits in reverse order before assuming you've miscounted a gesture or blink.
Frequently asked questions
What's the Day 1 portrait code in Servant of the Lake?
243 — from Alexandra's 2 fingers, William's 3 blinks, and Aldous's 4 watch shakes.
What's the Day 2 silhouette lamp code?
315, confirmed by two independent walkthrough wikis.
Are the Day 3 painting puzzles confirmed?
The river-to-Water and hand-to-2 matches come from a consistent walkthrough source but haven't been independently verified on video yet.
See the full walkthrough hub for where each of these puzzles falls in the day's overall flow.