What are your favorite/most hated Adventure Game Puzzles

[rtf]

I have always wondered, which Adventure Game puzzle did you like, or hate, the most? 

By this question I mean, which puzzle in any Adventure Game do you think is the most logical, or best fits the story, or best implemented, or whatever.  Any game.  Commercial, underground, you name it.  Or it can be the least logical, and most annoying.

My favorite is in the SLUDGE game, "Out of Order."

Spoiler

When you have to hack into the admin computer using the code you found in the newspaper.  That was ingenious.

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What are yours?

[Skio]

I liked the final puzzle of "5 days a stranger". It took me a while to figure it out, but I think it was really smart and, more importantely, atmospheric.

[Hollister Man]

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

[Moox]

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.

agreed



My favorite puzzle was in space quest five

Hole punching the keycard by finding the order as a fly

[Hollister Man]

Oh, that was close behind, but not as memorable.  I liked 'deactivating' the android with the banana.

[Moox]

WD-40 lol
Space Quest was a good series. Remember the energizer bunny puzzle in SQ4?

[Vel]

Le Serpent Rogue in Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

The Ends of the Earth in Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge

[Privateer Puddin']

Monkey Wrench puzzle, Monkey Island 2

[SuperCarott]

Gobliiins 1, old guy casts magic on the mole to divert the wizards attention

[Sutebi]

Space Quest 6, the end puzzle with the fish. It's clever because of the premise behind it and because you finally get rid of the smelly old fish.

Also, I love in the same game the "anti-piracy" puzzle (I use that loosely) where you have to spell out the word using the periodic table. That was actually well done.

[Moox]

I remember the fish puzzle, I hated making the homing beacon in 6 tho

[evenwolf]

The drinking, spitting, gambling puzzles in MI2.

They just helped the game feel so much more lively when you competed with NPCs and timing was a factor.

[Mephistophilis]

Shooting The Barber Pirate's Banjo then blaming it on the grassy knoll in Monkey Island 3.

Didn't Like the Bone Maze in Monkey 2, solely because I spent so damn long randomly picking doors.

[Captain Mostly]

I thought that the sending-the-floating-crystal-to-fetch-the-lense-down-the-hole puzzle in The Dig was totally and utterly inspired. When you spotted what it was you were doing, it all seemed so obvious! EXACTLY how a puzzle should be done!

[Mr Jake]

shouldnt that be 'hole'?

[Radiant]

The time loop puzzle in Sorceror.
The magic duels in Quest for Glory II and III.
Getting Elaine's map in Monkey Island II, hard version.

Oh and what I hate is any kind of pixel hunt.

[Sutebi]

Oh, if we are also going to mention puzzles we hated, then (this technically counts) the Anti-Gravity skating puzzle in Space Quest 4, when the Sequel Police are chasing you. Man, I hated that puzzle.

But, that's a bit off topic, I guess.

[Babar]

the Anti-Gravity skating puzzle in Space Quest 4, when the Sequel Police are chasing you. Man, I hated that puzzle.

That wasn't really a puzzle. More of an ingame action sequence. I actually liked that part alot, until I got a faster PC and it became nearly impossible for me.

[Dart]

Oh, that was close behind, but not as memorable.Ã,  I liked 'deactivating' the android with the banana.

Seconded.

Great, now I want to play SQ5 again. After the team competition ends, I will.

[Kweepa]

Insult swordfighting with Carla in MI1.
The crystal maze in Sorceror (or was that Spellbreaker?). So many good puzzles in that series!