Tormented Souls 2 Science Lab Puzzle Guide: Animal Figurine Order and Master Key

Why the Tormented Souls 2 Science Lab Puzzle Feels Harder Than It Is

The Tormented Souls 2 science lab puzzle is one of the shortest riddles in the School area — and one of the most irritating, because you cannot finish it until you have hunted down four animal figurines across two realities and a trip into the past. If the wooden stand in the lab is still empty, the problem is almost never the riddle itself. It is the scavenger hunt feeding into it.

Treat the Tormented Souls 2 science lab puzzle as the final step of a longer chain rather than a standalone brain-teaser, and the whole thing clicks into place.

The Science Lab Puzzle at a Glance

Unlike the cryptex cabinets or the xylophone statue elsewhere in the school, the Science Lab has no code to crack inside the room. You simply walk up to the wooden stand and place four figurines into four slots in the right sequence. Everything hard about this puzzle happens before you arrive.

Community guides covering Tormented Souls 2 consistently point to the same room, the same four items, and the same sequence, so there is no ambiguity once you own all four pieces.

The Correct Animal Figurine Order: Hawk, Snake, Toad, Fly

The blackboard behind the stand gives you the only hint you get: "the strong eat the weak." That is a food-chain reference, and it tells you how to rank the animals. The hawk is the predator at the top, the snake comes next, the toad follows, and the fly sits at the bottom of the chain.

Arrange the figurines on the wooden stand as Hawk, Snake, Toad, Fly, left to right, and the puzzle completes. Players who read the clue as a size ranking rather than a food chain are the ones who usually get stuck here.

Where to Find All Four Figurines

This is where the Tormented Souls 2 science lab puzzle turns into a tour of the entire school. Three of the four figurines are locked behind separate puzzles, and two of them sit in the Other Side version of the building.

Snake Figurine — Classroom 103 and the Apple Chain

The teacher in Classroom 103 wants an apple, which means a detour into the past through a VHS tape:

• Pick up the apple seeds in Classroom 204, where they sit on the teacher's desk.
• Grab the Playground VHS tape from Classroom 104 and play it on the VHS machine in the Art & Music Room.
• In the past version of the playground, plant the seeds in the pot, then pull the table under the shower to water them.
• Return to the present, collect the grown apple, and give it to the teacher in Classroom 103 to receive the Snake figurine.

Hawk Figurine — Classroom 202 and the Other Side Dials

The Hawk requires a small memory test. In the normal version of Classroom 202, study the drawings on the far-left wall — specifically the symbols on the drawing behind. Then cross into the Other Side version of the same room and set the dials to the opposite of what you saw. Community guides list the winning combination as:

• Grenade
• Fire
• Male symbol
• Sun
• Happy mask

According to community reports, the whole room is built on opposites — peace becomes war, the snail becomes the hare — which is exactly why the real-world symbols have to be inverted. Set the dials, unlock the cage, then step back into the normal classroom to collect the Hawk figurine.

Fly Figurine — Girls' Restroom and the Insecticide

The Fly is the only figurine that needs a crafted item:

• Find the insecticide sprayer in the Director's Office on the Other Side.
• Find the insecticide can inside a cupboard in Storage Room 201.
• Combine them into a filled sprayer.
• Use the sprayer on the flies buzzing around the toilet in the women's bathroom on the Other Side, then return to the real world to pick up the Fly figurine.

Toad Figurine — Classroom 203 on the Other Side

The Toad is the least complicated of the four. Head into the Other Side version of Classroom 203 and pick it up directly — no puzzle gate, just a trip through the mirror. It is often the last figurine players find simply because they forget to double back into the alternate classroom after finishing the Hawk.

What the Master Key Unlocks

Finishing the Tormented Souls 2 science lab puzzle hands you the Master Key, a dial-based key that opens two separate locks later in the school. Both locks use chalkboard drawings as their clue, and both require you to translate an object into a symbol.

Master Lock 2 is the more rewarding of the two: behind it you will find the hand cannon upgrade, the recoil spring. Do not leave the Computer Lab without it, since the Master Key has no other listed uses and you will not get a second reminder.

Tips Before You Head Into the Lab

• Batch your Other Side trips. The Hawk, Fly, and Toad all live in the alternate school, so knock them out in one loop instead of crossing back and forth each time.
• Bring a lighter. The school's route into the Other Side runs through the girls' restroom mirror and its candle-lighting puzzle, so keep the lighter on you.
• Plan around the fuse board. The Generator Room holds two fuses that power different doors and the elevator, and you have to swap them between slots to reach each area — including the basement rooms tied to these figurines.
• Check the Snake last. The apple chain involves two separate rooms and a past visit, so it is the easiest one to abandon halfway. Finish it once you are already near the Art & Music Room.

For the broader puzzle catalogue, the survival horror community's full Tormented Souls 2 puzzle solution list and NoobFeed's school area puzzle guide both cover the school chain step by step. You can also check the official Tormented Souls 2 Steam page for the game itself.

FAQ

What order do the figurines go in for the Tormented Souls 2 science lab puzzle? Place them as Hawk, Snake, Toad, and Fly. The blackboard hint "the strong eat the weak" describes a food chain, and the stand wants the animals ranked from top predator down to prey.

Can I finish the science lab puzzle without visiting the Other Side? No. The Hawk and Toad figurines are both inside Other Side classrooms, and the Fly requires spraying insects at the Other Side toilet. The Snake is the exception — it comes from a VHS trip into the past rather than the alternate reality.

What do you get for solving the science lab puzzle in Tormented Souls 2? The Master Key. It opens the Master Lock in the Director's Office and the second Master Lock in the Computer Lab, where the recoil spring upgrade for the hand cannon is stored.

Where is the toad figurine in Tormented Souls 2? Inside Classroom 203 on the Other Side. There is no puzzle attached to it — walk in, grab it, and move on to the Science Lab.