My flashlight jittered over a folded sheet on the lobby table. The poem looked like a lock with two keys, offering a choice you could feel in your palms. I remember thinking: get this wrong and the rest of the event grows teeth.
I’ve spent more nights than I’ll admit chasing these puzzles, and you can cut through the theatrics. Read the riddle, place the Dolls where the clues say, and the game advances—simple muscle memory once you know what to watch for.
A folded page, a smudge of coffee — then the riddle
The paper in the lobby contains the hint you need: it points to where each Doll should sit. You don’t have to be a poet to decode it; treat the verse as literal directions.
How do you solve the first Doll Puzzle in Phasmophobia Alan Wake event?
Read the riddle and match the creature to the drawing. For this first puzzle the answer is straightforward: place the moose Doll on the tree drawing and place the deer Doll on the house drawing. When you drop the correct Doll on its matching sketch it will click into place and stand upright, and the page will flip to the next riddle so a new one becomes available.
He shot the moose in the woods
but he did not shoot the deer
he took the deer to his house
and then he made her his wife
We laughed, but he set us straight
“The deer is dear to me, in more ways than one
but a moose steak is never a mistake.”
Key takeaway: the moose belongs with the tree (woods), the deer belongs with the house. Everything else is flavor text to make you hesitate—don’t let it.
A creaky attic table, two candelabras—one tipped over
The moose Doll sits where the map’s drama lives: in the attic of Elderwood Palace Lodge, also labeled Bleasdale Farmhouse. Pick it up from a wooden table beside the candelabras. You’ll tell moose from deer by the antlers: the moose’s are bulbous, the deer’s are pointy.
A walk-in closet door half-open on the second floor
The deer Doll waits in the walk-in closet attached to the main bedroom on the second floor of Bleasdale Farmhouse. Take the first door on your right upstairs and scan the closet shelves. When you’ve got it, head to the puzzle board.
Where are the moose and deer dolls located in Phasmophobia?
Both Dolls spawn on the Elderwood Palace Lodge/Bleasdale Farmhouse map: the moose on an attic table near candelabras, the deer in the main bedroom’s walk-in closet. If you want to speed this up, run a quick sweep of the upper floor and attic first so you’re not hunting mid-puzzle.
A blink, a small confirmation sound — no instant loot
Completing the first Doll Puzzle does not hand you a cosmetic right away. It’s a stepping stone: finish all three Doll Puzzles to claim Saga Anderson’s Outfit Cosmetics. The event ties progress together so each solved puzzle moves you closer to that reward.
If you’re tracking this for completion rewards, remember that Phasmophobia runs on Steam and Kinetic Games built the Alan Wake crossover with Remedy’s world in mind. The base game is available on Steam for about $9.99 (€10) and also appears on Xbox platforms; owning the game makes these event puzzles free to play within the match.
Quick tip: gather as many Dolls as you can before you sit at the puzzle board — finding the right pair mid-puzzle wastes time and raises risk. Finding Dolls can feel as stubborn as a barnacle on a hull, so sweep methodically.
Want to argue whether the riddle is clever misdirection or lazy mischief—does the poetry help or just slow you down?