Poll: Weirdest ever puzzles...

DarkRiver Design · Fri 09/01/2004 20:33:44

Just out of curiosity, which puzzles, in any adventure games, did you think were most ridiculous?

Eggie · Fri 09/01/2004 21:36:50

Well...The twiddle puzzles in Toonstruck were pretty unforgivable. The Simon the Sorcerer had some real stinkers, too.
Hush puppies...Jesus...

Barcik · Fri 09/01/2004 23:13:00

The Monkey Wrench!

Cerulean · Sat 10/01/2004 22:00:10

MI1: "How to Get Ahead in Navigating."

And just about everything in the Infocom Hitchiker's Guide, but it was by the man himself and we love him all the more for it.

Babar · Sat 10/01/2004 22:07:01

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MI1: "How to Get Ahead in Navigating."

I hated that puzzle! I was stuck on it from the time I got the game to the time I got internet and checked up a walkthrough. After that I finished most of the rest of the game with the walkthrough

DarkRiver Design · Mon 12/01/2004 21:09:50

Personally, I thought Gabriel Knight 3's Le Serpent Rouge and Sydney puzzles were truly wicked.

Gregjazz · Mon 12/01/2004 21:50:47

I think I saw a similar thread on the HE forums.

In MI2, you have to 'take the sign' to get the shovel. Hmmm.....

Gilbert · Tue 13/01/2004 02:06:14

Well... I'll say ALL teh puzzl3z in RLBAT.

Gemmalah · Tue 13/01/2004 10:04:29

probably working out what you had to collect in the first part of toonstruck aahhh who thought that rock and roll would require a real bread roll.

Lazy Z · Tue 13/01/2004 10:41:27

Off the top of my head... the rubber ducky puzzle in TLJ, truly heinous.

TerranRich · Tue 13/01/2004 16:10:19

Speaking of The Longest Journey, what about the crystals puzzle? You had to arrange four crystals in a certain manner, arrange some dials, etc. but everything I tried wouldn't work. I tried all "logcial" possibilities. Too bad too, because TLJ would've been the first ever game I played where I didn't need a walkthrough/cheats/UHS file, but alas I had to cheat for that puzzle.

Captain Mostly · Wed 14/01/2004 15:14:59

Hush Puppies. By a VERY long way.

GAAAAH!!!!

Although if you mean "puzzles that make you do amazingly weird things, as though they were perfectly normal"... I guess it'd be Day of the Tenticle, where you change the American flag to be a knitted tenticle... It's just totally brilliant that something so freakish feels so obvious!

PeaceMan · Wed 14/01/2004 17:59:56

I too must agree here,

QuoteHush Puppies. By a VERY long way.

The boulder puzzle in MI4

The coffin ride thing in MI4

I know it probably isn't a puzzle, but Monkey Kombat is a pain.

The slot machine in the Feeble Files (Instead of bloody playing the thing a hundred times over why doesnt he just give it a whack?).

Getting the green crystal in Toonstruck.

Dave Gilbert · Wed 14/01/2004 19:25:19

Anyone play the Infocom game "Planetfall?"

In the game, there's a dark room. Inside another room filled with radiation, there's a lantern. You'd think that you would have to somehow survive the radiation to get the lantern, but no. It's a red herring. I spent AGES dying of radiation poisoning before I tried something else. Not very fair. :p

HillBilly · Wed 14/01/2004 19:28:15

Every single puzzle in "The Longest Journey". God that game was annoying. Still, i finished all the 4 CD's.

TerranRich · Wed 14/01/2004 19:30:14

God, HillBilly, that's quite an annoyingly large signature image you got there. You'd better not post another time, or I'll have to smack you hard for wasting space.

Minimi · Wed 14/01/2004 19:30:41

Quote from: terranRICH on Tue 13/01/2004 16:10:19
Speaking of The Longest Journey, what about the crystals puzzle? You had to arrange four crystals in a certain manner, arrange some dials, etc. but everything I tried wouldn't work. I tried all "logcial" possibilities. Too bad too, because TLJ would've been the first ever game I played where I didn't need a walkthrough/cheats/UHS file, but alas I had to cheat for that puzzle.

If you mean the one, in the cave with the strange long seahorses... then yes, i couldnt do that one. It was in Chapter 10 I Think...I haven't checked any walkthrough yet... though it's more than a year ago I played that game. So I'm still stucked there, and haven't finished the game, though I'd love to finish it!

*without cheating*

HillBilly · Wed 14/01/2004 19:33:56

Quote from: terranRICH on Wed 14/01/2004 19:30:14
God, HillBilly, that's quite an annoyingly large signature image you got there. You'd better not post another time, or I'll have to smack you hard for wasting space.

Fun thing. I was changing it the minute you were typing that reply.