Choose the scene where you are stuck. This page is a chapter index. Each card opens one focused answer with only the steps and screenshot needed for that task.
Three days, 25 checkpoints
Use the day rail to jump to the right chapter group, then open one focused card for the exact stuck point.
What are you trying to solve?
Arrival, house duties, and the first night
Arrival
Pay the coach, solve the tin-cup puzzle, and get inside the Vanderboom manor.
Open focused guide →Preparing Breakfast
Sign the contract, collect the breakfast ingredients, and make Aldous's porridge.
Open focused guide →Waking Aldous
Wake Aldous at 7:00, clean his ear, prepare him, and complete the exercise sequence.
Open focused guide →Preparing the Reception
Clean the floors, read the portrait clues, open the chest, and light the chandelier.
Open focused guide →Welcoming the Guests
Solve the flower, roach, and token puzzles before the Vanderbooms arrive.
Open focused guide →Serving Tea
Prepare the correct tea, complete the optional matcha route, and enter the reunion room.
Open focused guide →Beginning the Reunion
Prepare the toast, wake William, and calm James before the speech can continue.
Open focused guide →Night Watch
Check for anomalies, ring the bell when something changes, and open the attic.
Open focused guide →Searching the Attic
Solve the attic constellation box, finish the soldier scene, and use the star clues to finish Day 1.
Open focused guide →Coffee, hunting, bath, and cellar
Preparing Coffee
Read the portrait and window clues, open the coffee box, and serve Aldous correctly.
Open focused guide →Waking William
Wake William, make the bird food, and decode the fish scroll.
Open focused guide →Cleaning the Floors
Clean every blood stain and investigate the bathroom before the hunt begins.
Open focused guide →Going Hunting
Shoot the five animals, open the shed with 91276, and return the butcher knife.
Open focused guide →Doing the Washing
Collect seven laundry pieces, hang them from 0 to 6 pink stripes, and open the bathroom.
Open focused guide →Helping with Bathing
Fill the bath, solve the tile groups, and open the coded briefcase with 281.
Open focused guide →Night Time Duties
Take the gold chronometer, clear the balcony, and open the basement wine route.
Open focused guide →Inspecting the Cellar
Choose the right tools, light the underground route, and set the statue clocks.
Open focused guide →Cat search, alchemy, dinner, and departure
Looking for the Cat
Find Rusty, hand over the hammer, and reveal the hidden cabinet with the hunting photo.
Open focused guide →Assisting in Alchemy — Part 1
Decode the symbol board, open cabinet 2451, and prepare the ingredients for the elixir.
Open focused guide →Assisting in Alchemy — Part 2
Make oil, acid, blood, juice, and the final elixir in the correct order.
Open focused guide →Unforeseen Maintenance
Repair the chair, portraits, stove, bust, and upstairs railing to unlock the kitchen.
Open focused guide →Preparing Dinner
Cook the soup, cake, and potato, then survive the lake hallucination sequence.
Open focused guide →Dressing up for Dinner
Collect the dinner items, solve the portrait and bottle clues, and arm the Vanderbooms.
Open focused guide →Serving Dinner
Serve all three courses, finish the music puzzles, and cut the chandelier rope.
Open focused guide →The Departure
Treat the wounded family, escape the cell, set the final statue clocks, and leave the manor.
Open focused guide →Jump to the compact answer pages
Using the chapter index
How long is Servant of the Lake?
Official launch coverage describes the main story as roughly four to five hours; puzzle speed and optional achievements change the total.
Where is the Day 2 coffee code?
The launch-build walkthrough sources report 315 for the coffee box. The walkthrough notes that the beans should be roasted before grinding.
Is the Day 3 dinner route fully verified here?
The full dinner sequence is now included from a detailed community route. Treat it as community-backed rather than official replay verification, especially for the harp puzzle.