As Alan Wake 2 players venture toward the Wellness Center in Bright Falls, they may stumble across a Cult Stash in the bed of a truck. This container presents a puzzle that centers around bicycle and car wheels, and fans that hope to open the stash need to use math. This guide is here to assist with that endeavor, and full details on the solution to Alan Wake 2's car and bike wheels puzzle can be found in what follows.
For those players that are only interested in knowing the code that is used to open the Bright Falls truck bed Cult Stash, and do not care to learn how it is determined, it is 177. Indeed, the container will open immediately after an Alan Wake fan rotates the lock's top disc to 1, its middle disc to 7, and its bottom disc to 7, and they are free to collect its contents when that occurs.
Alan Wake 2: Bicycle and Car Wheels Puzzle Guide
This Alan Wake 2 puzzle begins by stating that there are 200 total vehicles in a factory, some of which are cars, and some of which are bicycles. Players can represent this mathematically as follows:
- x = number of cars
- y = number of bicycles
- x + y = 200
The puzzle also states that each car has four wheels and each bicycle has two wheels, and that there are a total of 754 wheels in the factory. Fans of survival horror video games can represent this mathematically as follows:
- x = number of cars
- y = number of bicycles
- 4x + 2y = 754
Players should now work to transform this statement so that a single x or a single y is one side of the equation and the rest of the information is on the other side. Here is one way in which that can be done, though fans should feel free to use their preferred method:
- Subtract 4x from both sides (2y = 754 - 4x).
- Dived both sides by 2 (y = 377 - 2x).
Players should now replace y in the initial statement with 377 - 2x (to get x + 377 - 2x = 200) and then follow these steps to solve for x:
- Combine x's on the left side (377 - x = 200).
- Add x to both sides (377 = 200 + x).
- Subtract 200 from both sides (177 = x).
As has been established, x is equal to the number of cars in the factory, and indeed the puzzle is asking for that value. This means that players have now arrived at the combination that is used to open the Bright Falls truck bed Cult Stash in Alan Wake 2, and they should input 177 into the lock and claim their rewards.
Alan Wake 2 is available now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
