What are your favorite/most hated Adventure Game Puzzles

[Monsieur OUXX]

I love any Myst-esque puzzles where you have to decode an alphabet or number system or memorize symbols or noises or make a chart...

Well, to be honest, for some time I tried to understand the alphabet based on the letters drawn on the wall all around the class room in Myst III. I listed all of them, and then tried to understand their meaning by using the text on the blackboard.

Luckily, I eventually remembered how strict and consistent Myst's creators are, and they wouldn't have used the cheap trick of transcripting the Latin alphabet (26 letters) into the same alphabet, but with different symbols. It wouldn't make sense in that imaginary universe. Especially after you decipher the numeric alphabet, which is not 10-based.

So I could continue playing, being absolutely sure that I had been following a wrong trail (it's always so good when you KNOW that something is not the right solution, instead of those random puzzles where you're never sure if it *might* work).