Here’s how to solve all Nursery Rhyme puzzles and acquire all dolls in Alan Wake 2.

Specifically, after clearing the Overlap encounter, the flood waters in Cauldron Lake will recede.

This allows you to venture to the northwestern part of the zone.

The Ranger Stations in each zone have documents that mark the Nursery Rhyme locations on your map.

It seems someone is conducting an experiment of sorts.

The Nursery Rhyme passages refer to dolls that are found near the puzzles that mention them.

The passages in each rhyme refer to the dolls that you better place on the correct positions/drawings.

A map showing the locations of the Nursery Rhymes in Cauldron Lake

The first letter of the required dolls are often capitalized to give you a hint.

If you make a mistake, Saga will remark that something’s wrong.

Do it right, however, and the screen will flicker.

A map showing the locations of the Nursery Rhymes in Watery

You’ll likely notice shadowy footsteps and markings on the ground, which then lead to special items.

Oftentimes, you’ll acquire a charm, which grants passive boons to Saga.

Just watch out because there are cases when additional enemies will also spawn.

The reward for the Lighthouse Nursery Rhyme requires you to head back down the mountain path. However, you might need to wait until the flood waters recede just to traverse the area.

Upon reading these, the locations of the Nursery Rhymes in that zone will be marked on your map.

We discuss this further in ourWitchfinder’s Station Nursery Rhyme guide.

We’ve split them up into sets.

Several areas of the map become accessible once the flood waters have receded, such as the Latte Lagoon ride in Coffee World.

That does it for our Alan Wake 2 Nursery Rhymes and dolls guide.

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We only realized that there was a Nursery Rhyme in this building in Downtown Watery a bit later in the campaign.

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A map showing the locations of the Nursery Rhymes in Bright Falls

You have to go outside the Ranger Station just to make the shadow footsteps walk back to the second-floor bedroom. Now that’s just spooky!