Creature Kitchen Puzzle Guide: Breaking The Locks
Running a kitchen is stressful enough without the architecture actively trying to lock you out of the pantry.
If you want to achieve the 100 percent completion run outlined in my Creature Kitchen Achievement Guide, you have to rip this house completely open. Every single major appliance, exterior building, and interior room in Creature Kitchen is locked behind a puzzle or a friendship check.
Some of these puzzles are incredibly straightforward logic gates. Others, like the Power Box, offer absolutely zero contextual clues and practically beg you to brute force them. Furthermore, several of the keys require you to spawn specific entities. If you do not know how the monster mechanics work yet, you need to read my Creature Kitchen All Creatures Guide first so you actually know who you are cooking for.
I have separated these solutions into two distinct categories: Environmental Puzzles (which require you to manipulate objects) and Friendship Keys (which require you to bribe the monsters).
Environmental Puzzles
These puzzles require you to observe your surroundings, read notes, and punch in specific codes.
The Calendar Puzzle
This is the very first roadblock. Look at the physical calendar hanging on the kitchen wall next to the yard exit. You will see four specific dates marked with bizarre symbols. You can press "Z" on your keyboard to zoom in.
Next, look at the locked box sitting right underneath the "Our Family" book by the front door. The box features the exact same symbols. You have to cross-reference the date numbers from the calendar with the symbols on the box.
The Solution: 9 1 7 4.
The Power Box Puzzle
This box is located outside. It features a grid of switches and orange lights. The game gives you absolutely zero clues for this. The objective is to flip the switches in a specific sequence so that every single orange light illuminates simultaneously.
The Solution: You have to brute force the trial and error until the board lights up. (Note: Because the grid sequence is purely visual, just flip the switches until the circuit completes).
The Owl Eye Puzzle
Once you unlock the Heart Door room, look at the right wall. You will see a painted tree with four owls sitting in the corners. You have to click the owls in a specific sequence so all four pairs of eyes light up at the same time. If you click the wrong owl, the entire puzzle resets.
The Solution: Bottom Left, Top Right, Top Left, Bottom Right.
The Weather Puzzle
Also located inside the Heart Door room. Look inside the dresser on the back left side to find a puzzle featuring six spinning plates and four weather symbols. The clues to solve this are written on a clipboard titled "Weather Report" sitting on the nearby desk.
The Solution: Rain, Clouds, Rain, Rain, Thunderstorm, Clouds.
The Bathroom Bead Puzzle
You have to locate three hidden beads to solve the mechanism hidden behind the shower curtain.
Green Bead: Physically shake the potted tree sitting to the right of the toilet.
Blue Bead: Open the medicine cabinet mounted on the left wall next to the toilet.
Red Bead: Open the blue towel cabinet next to the sink. The bead is resting on top of the towels.
Place all three beads into the shower curtain slot to receive the Raw Chicken ingredient and a new recipe.
The Flower Box Puzzle (Shed)
Once you unlock the exterior shed, look at the flower box on the back right table. Similar to the Owl Eye puzzle, you have to hit the switches in a specific sequence to light the entire board up simultaneously. There are no clues, so you have to brute force the sequence until it locks.
The Rose Puzzle
Grab the seed you earned from the Flower Box puzzle. Look at the table on the left side of the shed to find a clipboard with planting instructions. Just follow the exact step-by-step directions on the clipboard to grow the Rose.
The Friendship Keys
You cannot pick or guess these locks. You have to bribe specific creatures with their favorite foods to earn the keys. If you are missing the raw materials to cook these bribes, check my Creature Kitchen All Ingredient Locations guide.
Fridge Door Key (Fish Shape): Feed Corrin the Crow two random meals. She will drop the key on the porch plate.
Cheese Cabinet Key: Feed Trash Cat the Raccoon two different sandwiches. He will drop the key on the porch.
Heart Door Key: Throw cheese on the kitchen floor to spawn Them the Mouse. Feed Them three different cheesy meals to get the key.
Freezer Door Key: Feed Hopper the Frog two meals that contain mushrooms.
Coffee Cup Cabinet Key: Feed Jake the Box three different varieties of dessert. You must physically be in the Heart Door room when he finishes eating for him to drop the key.
Diamond Shed Key: Feed the Goober in the pantry three Italian meals (Pizza, Alfredo, Spaghetti).
Teardrop Door Key: Feed Grey the Dog three beef meals. She will bring the key out of her dog house.
Bowl Cabinet Key (X Shape): Feed Gerald the Octopus four different meals containing poultry or fish.
Moon Door Key: Feed Sassfoot five different breakfast items.
Ghost Key: Feed Moth four different vegetarian meals. Once he is satisfied, a short cutscene triggers and you are awarded the final key.
Stop banging your head against the grandfather clock and just punch the numbers in.
