Hogwarts Legacy Arithmancy door puzzle guide: How to solve the symbol doors

The Hogwarts Legacy castle has plenty of doors embedded with animal symbols that hide very valuable loot behind them. However, you’ll need a cheat sheet to solve the mathematical equations to open them, and here’s exactly how to find it.

Whether you’re following Hogwarts Legacy’s main storyline or exploring the side quests, the puzzle-solving feature is an integral part of the game‘s captivating journey.

Whether it’s Disillusionment Chests, empty frame puzzles, or the hundreds of Field Guide Pages scattered across the landscape, it feels so satisfying to uncover the mysteries of the wizarding world. So here’s exactly how you can solve the Arithmacy door puzzles in Hogwarts Legacy.

How to solve the Animal symbol door puzzles

Interacting with the doors will result in a puzzle appearing on the blackboard, requiring you to work out the values of the animals to reach the correct number. This can be done by spinning the question mark buttons which can be found in the nearby area.

A lot of players assume that the animals around the door will correlate to 1 through 10, but this isn’t the case and you wouldn’t know this until you locate a specific piece of paper that reveals the answers.

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The cheat sheet can be found following these steps:

1. Fast travel to the Divination Classroom through the Floo Flame Fast Travel point.
2. On that same floor, go through the left entrance and across the wooden corridor until the first junction.
3. Turn right and keep going until you reach the door embedded with animal silhouettes.
4. Take a few steps back and open the box next to the chalkboard.
5. You’ll find the cheat sheet.

Cheat sheet code explanation

As seen above, we’ve included the sheet here to make it easy for you to solve the puzzle doors and you can check out the list of values below:

• Demiguise – 0
• Unicorn – 1
• Dragon – 2
• Hydra – 3
• Owl – 4
• Quintaped – 5
• Salamander – 6
• Octopus – 7
• Spider – 8
• Snake – 9

Now, simply spin the question marks until you’ve landed on the correct animals and the puzzle door will open, offering you a nice set of rewards.

Charms Classroom Floo Flames door example: solution

For example, the image below showcases the puzzle door next to the Charms Classroom floo flames. This is the door the majority of new students will run into, as you’re sent to Charms Class as one of your first lessons at Hogwarts.

To solve the puzzle door below, the values would be Dragon and Octopus.

Remember, this cheat sheet will work for every animal symbol puzzle in Hogwarts Legacy, so don’t hesitate to track them all down.

Hopefully, this guide has prevented you from getting frustrated with the animal puzzle doors and unlocked all the collectibles inside.

That’s all you need to know about the Animal symbol door puzzles in Hogwarts Legacy. Don’t forget to check the list with all the professors & classes, as well as how to pick your wand & house, and all the characters you’ll meet during your adventure.