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What you need before you start
The seance clues are hidden from players who cannot perceive them. The developer’s official hints page (titled “Cholera Clinic: Seance Puzzle”) names two equivalent ways to get that ability:
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- Be cursed. A curse grants the perception needed to see the clue.
- Wear a Perception Ring. The ring provides the same ability without a curse.
The official solution does not present a competing method. The only real choice is which of these two you prefer.
Solving the seance puzzle step by step
- Interact with the wax cylinder in the room. Playing it is what produces the seance clues.
- Watch the center of the table while the recording plays. Each time a ghost appears there as a number is spoken, write that number down.
- Keep going until you have three numbers. The official hint specifies three, so a fourth or fewer than three means you have missed a cue or recorded the wrong one.
- Walk to the piano and play your three numbers in the order you recorded them.
- Map each number to a key by position: the first key is 1, the second key is 2, and so on.
The official hint says the sequence is generated from the recording cues. The answer is therefore the numbers the ghost actually spoke in your playthrough, recorded in the order they appeared. If your numbers differ from another player’s, the difference is expected, and you should solve from your own recording rather than copying someone else’s code.
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Avoid confusing this with the Cholera Clinic jumping puzzle
The Cholera Clinic also contains a jumping puzzle, and its official hint describes the number of corpses as random. That variable count belongs to the jumping puzzle only. It has no bearing on the seance sequence, which is driven by the wax cylinder and the piano. Players who find a different number of bodies should not treat that as a sign they are on the wrong puzzle.
Troubleshooting
The Cholera Clinic arrived with Withering Rooms version 1.01, according to that version’s official patch notes. Those notes also record two puzzle-related fixes:
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- Piano unusable after a wrong guess. An incorrect piano entry could leave the piano unresponsive. The notes record this as fixed.
If the room behaves differently from these instructions, or the piano stops responding, confirm that your copy of the game is on version 1.01 or later and that it is fully updated. Patch notes describe what was changed; they do not confirm how your particular installation is behaving, so if the problem persists after updating, check the game’s own version information and report the issue to the developer or publisher.
Game details and availability
Steam lists Withering Rooms as a single-player action, adventure, and RPG title. The game is developed by Moonless Formless and published by Perp Games, with a release date of April 5, 2024 on Steam. This guide covers the Steam listing and version 1.01 content. I could not confirm current availability on other storefronts or physical editions, so check your preferred store before purchasing.
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