What are your favorite/most hated Adventure Game Puzzles

[Crowley]

For favourite puzzles, Simon the Sorcerer 3D had a truly diabolical puzzle right at the end. There's a computer you have to insert a CD into, but there seems to be absolutely no way of getting the CD drive open in the game. The game was programmed so it would recognize when you opened the CD drive containing the game CD-ROM and the CD drive in the game would open!

[Kweepa]

Heh, that'll work well with an emulator...

[fovmester]

For favourite puzzles, Simon the Sorcerer 3D had a truly diabolical puzzle right at the end. There's a computer you have to insert a CD into, but there seems to be absolutely no way of getting the CD drive open in the game. The game was programmed so it would recognize when you opened the CD drive containing the game CD-ROM and the CD drive in the game would open!

That was a good one!

[PsychicHeart]

I know it's not made using AGS, but Enter The Matrix, when you're in the Hacking Section, and to get into a folder, you have to solve a Chinese Puzzle.
That was really cool.

[Gijs]

Favorite: Monkey combat
Why?
Because I solved it without a walktrough(Never used a walktrough in the whole game). And I was stuck on monkey combat for a whole three days but I just refused to get a walktrough. So I really fels like I was the best, when I finally solved it.

[Lord_Nipper]

My most hated is a stupid puzzle in Kings Quest mask of eternity--you had 30 different skulls to choose from, only one was correct.  They were "Copper Skulls" as compared to "Bronze."  Stupidest riddle ever, with no way to dignify which skull was which.  (Wouldnt be so bad if you didnt have to take a skull, run it to a statue, try it on, run back, and try to remember that your skull was incorrect).

[Beje]

My favorite puzzles are
1-Le Serpent Rouge: Gabriel Knight 3
2-The triangular prisms (underwater): The Longest Journey
3-Get the bike: Gabriel Knight 3

[amc]

Don't know if anyone here has played Torin's Passage, but OH! that one has a perfectly horrid maze puzzle on one of the world-layers, and once you get to the end of it you discover you need a tool that's at the opposite end of the maze.... which was only visible via pixel hunt....

But, that game also has some very clever puzzles that were fun to do. Goofy game... I miss it.

[BerserkerTails]

For favourite puzzles, Simon the Sorcerer 3D had a truly diabolical puzzle right at the end. There's a computer you have to insert a CD into, but there seems to be absolutely no way of getting the CD drive open in the game. The game was programmed so it would recognize when you opened the CD drive containing the game CD-ROM and the CD drive in the game would open!

Reminds me of X-Men for the Sega Genesis (Mega-Drive), where you had to actual reset the system near the end of the game to continue.

[DinghyDog]

I don't understand why people are angry at the skeleton doors in MI2....It was really obvious that the "bone" song was a set of instructions.....

Then again, "obvious" is different for each person.

FAVORITE PUZZLES:
1) I'm not sure why, but I really enjoyed spying on all the conversations in Colonel's Bequest...
2) Pretty much all of the puzzle design in KQ6, my absolute favorite game in that series.

LEAST FAVORITE PUZZLES:
1) ANY ANY ANY ANY puzzle that you have to have the user's manual to solve....
2) It's been mentioned, but trying to solve all the danged puzzles in 7days while the welder kept showing up around every corner.

-DD

[lo_res_man]

least fave puzzle...lets see... Oh I know!
Going to the Selenic Age in Myst, were you have to get the sequence of  organ sounds to match EXACTLY!! I love myst, but that puzzle had me stumped for a year, finelly buckled down and got a solution off internet.
fave? Solving Grim fendango, now that was a satisfying game. wish it went longer but it couldn't, so it don't, so its not. too bad. glad it ended though when compared to the heiniesly open ended mi cycle

[Pelican]

ILEAST FAVORITE PUZZLES:
1) ANY ANY ANY ANY puzzle that you have to have the user's manual to solve....

Actually I quite liked those puzzles in the Ben Jordan games that required you to read the manual (yes, I'm sad, I read the manual...). I mean, it should break the suspension of disbelief, but as its presented as a paranormal investigator's handbook, it fits in with the world. I felt rewarded for being anal enough to read the manual.

[Crowley]

Talking about puzzles requiring manuals (sometimes called copy protections) my favourite for those is the spell formulas in King's Quest 3. I realized only years after I had first played the game that was actually a copy protection! Granted I was aroud nine years old at the time...

[madgooseparade]

I hate ANY timed puzzles that involve death because they make me so nervous that I just freeze and get killed... this includes such games as 5daS and Pleughburg where you die too many times at the hands of others in a timed fashion...

Favorite? hmmm... In Monkey Island 3, I absolutely loved the series when Guybrush gets swallowed by the snake and everything has a snake battering name like a golf club is "snake club" Then the quicksand after that mae me nervious thinking I'd die but reassuringly I never did... I loved part II of grim fandango but there was entirely too much running around the port but the puzzles were excellently set up, I over all loathed night of the roasted moths, insanely stupid in my opinion...

But adventure games over all are amazing, too bad they're an endangered species...

[The Ivy]

I loved the secret lab puzzle in "Ripley's Believe it or Not."  You had to use the same set of inventory items to solve three totally different puzzles.  You were trapped once you got into the room and it was unbelievably frustrating, but once it all came together you realize how ingenious the whole thing was.  You use the periodic table twice in that puzzle, and never for its intended purpose.

The least enjoyable puzzle I can think of were the cliffs of logic in KQ6.  I managed to get past the first one, which was a word game, and thought myself pretty clever.  Then I discover the cliffs go higher, and the next puzzle consists of 26 arbitrary symbols, of which you must press 4 in the right order.  Finishing that game was put on hold for 8 YEARS before I figured out the "Guide to the Green Isles" could be found in the README.

But really, the rest of the game was worth it. 

[Babar]

There was a readme? I got it all out of the manual....

[Deloria]

My favorite, I think, was in KQ6, my first adventure.Ã,  'Three roses lay on the bower, a scythe to he who cuts the flower. A crown, a dove, a noble race.Ã,  A scull and bones marks this dread place.'Ã,  I think that was it.

My most un-favorite was looking at all the books in the library in 5DaS, I didn't realize I would have to until I read a walkthrough.Ã,  It should have been more clear.

Actually I am pretty sure it was: Three Roses laid upon a bower, A scythe fore thee who cuts the flower. A crown, a dove; most noble race. Thy bones make sacred this dread place.

[Deloria]

FoA was the fourth Indy game, actually. Look:
So assuming you count both Last Crusade games as one game rather than two, there you have it, FoA was the fourth Indy game created...

<grin> of course the Alabama Smith games don't count as they're nowhere near official.
However, I do seem to recall an old console game called Raiders of the Lost Ark, (out of the age of the colecovision and stuff) which would qualify.


Oh yeah. Fave puzzle? The gnomes in KQVI, and/or the time loop puzzle from Sorceror.
Worst puzzle ever? I dunno, several I suppose; the one that comes to mind right now is the Hell Gate from QfG5, since I figured I should stab myself to get blood (just like you do for the Ring of Truth) and that doesn't even give you a response.

No, just keep walking/running while wearing the ring. eventually you will run out of staminabut don't take a pill/potion justrun once more and you will get a message that you have created a ring of truth. If you don't get that message add styx weater and dragons blood if you haven't already done so.

[The Ivy]

There was a readme? I got it all out of the manual....

Well, yes, but I only had a burned copy of the game, and the person who gave it to me neglected to mention there was such a thing.     All attempts to buy "The Guidebook to the Green Isles" online failed piteously.

[Tom S. Fox]

Do you know the game "Inherit the Earth" ?
Well, that one is quite annoying, since it's basically just a bunch of back-to-back mazes.

In other words: The whole game is a huge terrible puzzle!