On the Subject of Phasmophobia

Defuser by day, ghost hunter by—OH GOD IT’S A WRAITH

As fledgeling ghost hunters, you hope to finally make a name for yourselves by correctly tracking down and identifying a ghost. Using the various paranormal data collection tools at your disposal, you will investigate an abandoned house trying to determine the type of ghost walking its halls. Oh, and try not to die in the process!

• You will begin outside a house from the game Phasmophobia. Do not enter the house (up arrow initially) until having fully read the instructions.
• The house will contain a ghost that you must identify using tools available in the van (down arrow initially).
• You will have 2 inventory slots and a sanity counter.
• Once you have collected enough evidence to deduce the ghost type, go to the van, scroll to the correct type, and submit to solve the module.
• Upon submitting an incorrect ghost type or unsuccessfully hiding from the ghost during a hunt, the module will strike. The ghost type will not change after striking.

Controls

Navigation

• Your van is located in front of the house (behind you at first).
• The house will have a set layout of rooms.
• A closet is randomly placed somewhere in the house. You can enter and exit the closet at any time by clicking the closet doors.
• On each screen there will be arrows to navigate forwards or backwards. Click an arrow to travel to the room in that direction.

Equipment

• You begin with both inventory slots empty.
• All available tools are located inside the van.
• To equip a tool, click its icon in the van with an empty inventory slot available.
• To unequip a tool, click its icon in your inventory slot while in the van.
• To activate or deactivate an equipped tool, click its slot while inside the house. The tool's background will shine yellow if on, grey if off.
• Shortly after activating a tool, a visual or auditory indicator will play.
• You can only have one tool activated at one time.

Sanity and Being Hunted

• You will always be safe while outside of the house.
• While inside the house your sanity will drop over time.
• Upon activating a tool, your sanity will drop.
• While inside the house, the ghost has a chance to initiate a hunt.
• The lower your sanity, the higher the chance of the ghost initiating a hunt.
• When being hunted, the front door of the house will be locked and your flashlight will flicker repeatedly until the hunt is over.
• Hide by entering the closet, and make sure to deactivate any tools in your inventory.
• There will be a brief buffer after a hunt terminates before the next can begin.
• The buffer time will decrease as more hunts occur.
• Your sanity will replenish over time while inside the van.

Identifying the Ghost

Favorite Room

• The ghost has a favorite room inside the house which you must first locate in order to collect evidence successfully.
• Using Table 1, identify which tool will be used to determine the favorite room.
• Upon activating the designated tool in the favorite room, the flashlight will flicker twice after a short delay.

Collecting Evidence

• Once you have identified the favorite room, you can attempt to collect evidence in it.
• Consult Table 2 to see each tool’s edgework–based usage mechanics and how to tell if evidence has been successfully collected.
• There is only a 60% chance that a tool will display the correct effect in the favorite room, so you will likely need to use the same tool multiple times.
• Correct evidence can be observed multiple times by using the same tool in case you miss a cue.
• Upon collecting 3 unique pieces of evidence, identify the ghost type by consulting Table 3.

Table 1: Favorite Room Tool

Location	If there is a Lit BOB indicator	Else if there are 2 or more batteries and less than 3 ports	Else if the last digit of the serial number is odd	Otherwise
Tanglewood Dr.	Thermometer	EMF	Camera	D.O.T.S
Edgefield Rd.	Spirit Box	Notebook	Thermometer	Black Light
Ridgeview Ct.	EMF	D.O.T.S	Black Light	Camera
Grafton FH	Notebook	Thermometer	D.O.T.S	Spirit Box
Willow St.	Black Light	Spirit Box	EMF	Notebook
Bleasdale FH	D.O.T.S	Camera	Notebook	Thermometer

Table 2: Evidence Collection Indications

Activating a tool will output a different audio or visual effect shown in column 2. If activating a tool causes an effect with the property indicated in the correct edgework condition column, then you have successfully collected evidence with that tool. However, there is still a 40% chance that using a correct tool will elicit an effect without the property indicated in the table.

Tool	Effect	If there are less than 2 indicators and the location isn’t Tanglewood Dr. or Willow St.	Else if there is more than 1 port plate and the location isn’t Edgefield Rd. or Bleasdale FH	Else if there is an even number of batteries	Otherwise
D.O.T.S	Dot Color	Blue	Green	Red	Yellow
EMF	Number of Beeps	3	1	2	4
Notebook	Written Text	Run	Afraid	Go Away	No Escape
Spirit Box	Spoken Word	Here	Adult	Kill	Baby

Tool	Effect	If there are less than 2 indicators and the location isn’t Tanglewood Dr. or Willow St.	Else if there is more than 1 port plate and the location isn’t Edgefield Rd. or Bleasdale FH	Else if there is an even number of batteries	Otherwise
Thermometer	Snow Flake Points	5	6	8	4
Black Light	Type of Marking	Footprint	Fingerprint	Handprint	Shoeprint
Camera	Number of Orbs	2	3	1	4

Table 3: Ghost Types

Banshee	Camera, Black Light, D.O.T.S	Demon	Thermometer, Black Light, Notebook	Deogen	Spirit Box, Notebook, D.O.T.S
Goryo	EMF, Black Light, D.O.T.S	Hantu	Camera, Thermometer, Black Light	Jinn	EMF, Thermometer, Black Light
Mare	Camera, Spirit Box, Notebook	Moroi	Spirit Box, Thermometer, Notebook	Myling	EMF, Black Light, Notebook
Obake	EMF, Camera, Black Light	Oni	EMF, Thermometer, D.O.T.S	Onryo	Camera, Spirit Box, Thermometer
Phantom	Spirit Box, Black Light, D.O.T.S	Poltergeist	Spirit Box, Black Light, Notebook	Raiju	EMF, Camera, D.O.T.S
Revenant	Camera, Thermometer, Notebook	Shade	EMF, Thermometer, Notebook	Spirit	EMF, Spirit Box, Notebook
Thaye	Camera, Notebook, D.O.T.S	Mimic	Spirit Box, Thermometer, Black Light	Twins	EMF, Spirit Box, Thermometer
Wraith	EMF, Spirit Box, D.O.T.S	Yokai	Camera, Spirit Box, D.O.T.S	Yurei	Camera, Thermometer, D.O.T.S