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It featured a very nonsensical puzzle that includes using honey on an old piece of tape to steal hair from a cat, to make a fake mustache, to impersonate someone, to get a motorcycle, because the hero refuses to drive a scooter.

Gabriel Knight 3 was accused by Old Man Murray of being an excellent example of what killed adventure games: themselves.

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There is a patch of dirt that you can't interact with until you do several other things, and a rock that you can't interact with until you enter a particular code into a map room.

The Dig has places where you can't use certain items until you progress to the point where you need them.

What leap of logic connects it with croquet is unclear. Another is OK, if you remember Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: a flamingo. One is simple: a hammerhead shark, who does look like a mallet. That's easy - steal the mallets from croquet players by swapping them with something similar, so that they wouldn't notice.

Here's the worst from Discworld II, which was somewhat saner, and where most puzzles made sense if you read the books.

Pterry: To get the walkthrough, you have to take the sponge from Nanny Ogg's pantry and stick it in the ear of the troll with the tutu, then take the lumps and put them in the pouch with the zombie's razor.

Compare and contrast Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle. In real life, the genre of brainteasers known as 'lateral thinking puzzles' or 'insight puzzles' often fall in this category. And in either case, the solution will turn out to be an Unexpectedly Obscure Answer.įar, far too many moon logic puzzles are based on Puns. If a character In-Universe has to solve one of these without player interaction, they may best display the skills necessary to tackle these kinds of problems if they're the Cloudcuckoolander anyone else will have to rely on Bat Deduction.

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This can go full circle into its polar opposite, Unexpectedly Realistic Gameplay, where players get so used to game logic that Real Life logic is now what's alien. Thus, with a simple slip of translation or colorization, a Russian player may be utterly baffled by having two slightly different siniy buttons, no goluboy or fioletoviy buttons, and no hint as to what the problem is. Purple, on the other hand, is fioletoviy, which more closely matches 'violet'. The range covered by siniy includes a chunk of what an English speaker would call purple, and is 'obviously' distinct from goluboy. note for example: 'Click the blue button, followed by the purple button.' The Russian language recognizes dark blue ( siniy) as a separate basic color from light blue ( goluboy). Other times, the clues that would have led to the solution seem so out of left field that it leaves the player wondering 'how was I supposed to know that?' Such 'out of left field' examples might entail figuring out the third meaning of a Double Entendre someone you talked to 20 hours ago made, listening to the unlisted audio track included on the bonus disc that didn't come with the rental, knowing some obscure pun in a language other than English that got Lost in Translation, or not being familiar with a common custom of the writer's culture.

note obviously by size order to form the first three digits of Pi because there are more circles than squares in the pattern on the wall. The worst offenders cross the threshold from 'convoluted but comprehensible logic' into Non Sequitur or even pure Insane Troll Logic - for example, you should just know which three rocks should be arranged on the three pedestals and in what order. When this is bad enough that hundreds of players will get stuck on this puzzle, it's That One Puzzle.įailed attempts at creating a moon logic puzzle, on the other hand, will have the player screaming at the ceiling in rage upon reading the solution, and are generally unsolvable except by accident. Even a highly skilled puzzle-solver will occasionally get stuck on one of these.

The pieces of the solution were in fact provided, and the solutions make logical sense in hindsight, just in strange or hard to notice ways. You may also find yourself cursing the developer for expecting you to make overly arcane connections, notice absurdly minute details, or for throwing in intentional or unintentional Red Herrings but even a badly executed but successful moon logic puzzle makes sense after you read the answer. If it is poorly written or implemented, you still may not think anyone could possibly solve it on their own.

If a frustrated player eventually does reach for the strategy guide, there will be two common reactions on discovering the answer: If the puzzle is well written, the answer will make complete, brilliant sense in hindsight, and the player will respect the puzzle designer, perhaps curse themselves for giving in to the strategy guide, or for needing it in the first place.