The Grate Debate: The Solution to P.T.'s Final Puzzle

♪ I thought, I found the connector. It's just a reflektor (just a reflektor) ♪. TGD has figured out (maybe?) the solution to the last puzzle of the Silent Hills playable trailer!

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[DrStoCazzo]

maybe they'll turn the pt demo into a pachinko machine

[colorxtasy]

TheGrateDebate  Kojima explained the name 7780s !
7780 is the postal code of the town in Japan, shizuoka ! 
Shizuoka means "silent hill".
The "s" in the end of 7780 means "silent HILLS".

[evan_]

Too bad the game's canceled. If P.T. was a glimpse at Silent Hills then, man, what a kick ass game it would've been.

[but]

It is incredible that a demo leaves us thinking for many hours even 7 years later, too bad Konami canceled the project.

[Maximus_-qczt]

“I encourage anyone watching to try this out for themselves.”

R.I.P.

[thorn]

I whispered his name... "K-kojima~"

[Crazelord]

This is so complicated I had to take a break and study some simple Quantum Physics

[LegatoSkyheart]

6 Letters and 4 Letters in which 2 letters need to be the same?

S. I. L. E. N. T. - 6
H. I. L. L. - 4

[MasterXenin]

I've spent an extensive amount of time testing after watching this video, and have come to the conclusion that you don't need to say "Jarith" but rather anything that begins with a J.

I've confirmed it working with Jonathon, Joseph, jambalaya, Jehovah's witness, Jumping Jack Frost, or even just saying the letter J. I've also tried changing the first letter of Jarith to a G for "Garith" and got nothing. As soon as I make the slightest J sound it triggers.

This leads me to believe that it is not just a matter of sloppy voice recognition cutting you slack on speaking the word Jarith (because otherwise slurring Jarith or saying Gareth would have worked), but that the requirements are purposefully anything that begins with a J. The message on the error screen signed by -J combined with the instructions to "speak his name" are indeed the biggest clue, but I just don't think the translation of the numbers has anything to do with it. That logic simply led you to speaking names that begin with J. The reason why most any J name will work is probably because we don't know -J's full name, and Kojima wanted to leave it up to our interpretation or imagination, without being so strict no one would ever solve it.

Also the eligibility for getting the laugh starts as soon as the clock begins striking, and has nothing to do with the ghost or how far she is into her haunting. I've purposefully desynced the clock and ghost so that one will happen way before the other, and nothing I said worked throughout the entire duration of the haunt, but I achieved a laugh instantly as soon as the clock started up, before the first chime had even ended, because I was already in the middle of speaking. Also, you can wait for both the clock and the haunting to dissipate and speak the name into complete silence, half an hour after it has struck midnight, and it will still register.

This whole phenomenon feels like deciphering an ARG, and every step forward we make as a community gets me more and more excited at the notion of a Silent Hill directed by such an obvious madman.

[shawnsicle]

*"PT's final puzzle"
*2014
Boy, have I got some news for you...

[RulerOfTheLabyrinth]

My name is Jareth. My girlfriend said my name beside me on the couch, to get my attention. The mike picked it up-- that's how we got the second laugh. An accident. But now i'm more fucked up than the game made me to START with. I have always been a silent hill fan, and MGS is one of my favorite game series' out there. This has got to be more than coincedence. So i took to the internet, and found out MY NAME is the answer to the final puzzle? I DON'T KNOW IF I'M FLATTERED or FUCKING HORRIFIED.

[TheLurkerFox]

Oh and 7780 is the size in square kilometers of Shizuka prefecture where the studio is located.... The forest could be on a hill that is in the prefecture, so it literally is Quiet Hill or Silent Hill.(Info courtesy to Caddicarus)

[CapToastyStuff]

"Hideo Kojima comes to aid gamers in their continuous search for clues in P.T. with the reveal of the previously mentioned message. The “7780s” phrase found in the game, translates in a post code for Shizuoka, Japan. The name’s translation is Quiet Hills, a common nickname for Silent Hills in that region. So, adding “s” to “7780″ will result in Silent Hills."

[naoboi]

Or, "Jarith" is also "Jareth", which is a character David Bowie played. Kojima is obsessed with Bowie. So, it's also a cute reference.

[BenSunhoof]

My God, if this solution is right, then Kojima is a freaking genius to come up with such puzzles.

[wetheck]

in Japanese, they like to attribute syllables from the language to numbers (ie for phone numbers on commercials etc.)

Not to mention a LOT of Japanese horror games and movies have mysterious numbers that translate into syllables.

here's some of the most common attributions to the numbers:

2 = fu ni tsu
0 = o n to
4 = shi yo
8 = ha ba pa ya
6 = ro mu
3 = mi sa san

fu o yo ba ro mi

o fu ro ba mi yo

ofuroba miyo

ofuroba = the bathtub
miyo = older Japanese for "Look at" (commanding)

(for Japanese learners: "miro" and "miyou" are modern ways of saying it, but "miyo" (without the u) is the equivalent of modern "miro" in old Japanese)

"Look at the Bathtub"

Did anyone do that?

[ImUhhCaptain]

if you're watching this and dont want nightmares, or if you're just on edge in general here are a few timestamps to avoid/prepare for
2:44
4:28
7:55
i get this is a video about a HORROR game, but personally im watching it to see the genius puzzles that was made for this game.

[BunkerSquirrel]

Back when we thought this game would actually be released.
Man, it still hurts, but at least we got Death Stranding.

[jean-christiancote]

HEY, did anyone noticed while playing the game that when you reach the final loop, if you got in the stairs and wait for the bell, if you turn back and walk slowly towards the phone, you will see a ghost, but not lisa. When I first saw it, it seemed like a drunken man walking... Could it be the husband of the family ? That would be the explanation of all the beer cans and bottles... But does anyone has another answer to this ???

[pbummz]

What's the logical conclusion? Kojima gets shit done, but he's kinda insane.