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Preferable criteria:
- Highly original or abstract
- Not too easy, not too hard (subtly presses you on to solve it yourself without consulting gamefaqs)
- Gives you that great "Ah-HAH!" feeling after having solved it.


  You can mention a single puzzle, or a whole game that met this criteria consistently throughout.

p.s. try not to give away the solution to the respective puzzle

i try never to use walkthroughs and hints, because my problem is that once i start using one, even just for one puzzle, its just too tepting to use it again... but, ofcourse, i do use them. quite a lot. oh well

I'm cringing right now because I know exactly how that feels...That urge afflicted me all the way through Grim Fandango...and Monkey Island...and Day of the Tentacle..god I'm such a quitter. 

- without the use of gamefaqs and/or other help related articles?

If not, post your longest running achievement before you sulkily hit up gamefaqs to point you towards the tiny fork pixel that camouflaged itself with the Silver lining of the low resolution Brick Wall.

Personally, I managed to progress halfway through Monkey Island 1 before I got stuck in Guybrush's first ship, because I failed to notice the camouflaged cellar that someone would need telescopic x-ray vision to track.