State of Survival: Silent Hill Puzzle and Floor 4 Strategy

To maximize value during the State of Survival Silent Hill collaboration without overspending Biocaps, solve the picture-matching puzzle systematically and stop advancing in the Path of Hidden Treasure once you finish Floor 4. Gathering the dense Chief Stamina (⚡) nodes across the first four floors delivers the highest return per movement token, while pushing past Floor 4 steeply increases token costs for cosmetic and high-tier rewards.

Solving the Silent Hill Picture-Matching Puzzle

Blind guessing consumes your limited move threshold and wastes attempt vouchers, forcing unnecessary Biocap expenditures to finish stages. Clear the board methodically using these rules:

Record revealed coordinates: When you uncover an unmatched tile on your first turn, do not guess blindly on the second flip. Note or capture the row and column coordinates so you can match the icon instantly when its duplicate appears later.
Exhaust free vouchers first: Complete all daily settlement and alliance missions to claim free attempt vouchers before considering any Biocap spend.
Prioritize movement token pairs: Match tile pairs that grant Path of Hidden Treasure tokens first. This guarantees event energy even if your total moves run short near the end of the board.

Path of Hidden Treasure: Stopping at Floor 4

Chief Stamina (⚡) is the most practical progression resource in the early tiers, fueling rally participation and infected hunting. Floors 1 through 4 feature compact grids with dense stamina drops. Floor 5 and higher introduce larger boards, higher tile uncover costs, and diluted stamina rates geared toward cosmetic leaderboard rewards.

Floor	Primary Objective	Token Strategy	Advance Trigger
Floor 1	Locate stamina bundles and exit	Use free daily tokens	Step on the exit once stamina is claimed
Floor 2	Path directly toward visible chests	Avoid edge exploration	Advance as soon as stamina is secured
Floor 3	Uncover central tiles for adjacent reveals	Spend accumulated mission tokens	Take the gate immediately after clearing stamina
Floor 4	Sweep accessible stamina (⚡) nodes	Spend remaining tokens; stop before Floor 5	Exit the event path entirely

When to Exit Early

If you reveal the floor exit while unopened tiles remain:

Stamina already collected: Take the exit immediately. Opening leftover tiles wastes movement tokens needed for subsequent floors.
Stamina still hidden: Check your remaining token balance. If you have enough tokens to probe high-probability central tiles, keep searching. If tokens are depleted, exit rather than spending Biocaps to gamble on low-level boards.

Daily event tokens do not expire between active days of the collaboration window. You can save tokens across the first two days to clear through Floor 4 in a single run, then stop spending once Floor 4 stamina is fully collected.