(11-07-2025, 10:19 AM)Lady of the Worlds Wrote: There was a cheat? I never got past that pesky arrow.

I don't even consider this a puzzle, but I want to mention a puzzle from an old Garfield fan adventure. There was a puzzle where you had to assemble a pipe system while the water was already coming. When ever you'd placed a piece, you were given another. It was a race against time.
After a while it switched from thick pipes to thin ones, because the first connection required a thick pipe, and the last connection required thin pipes.
The shape of the pipe pieces was randomized, and you just kept getting the thick parts until the game finally switched, usually so late that you didn't have enough room left to place them.
if you failed, you had to start over, but if you'd already reached the thin pipes, you just kept getting those, no thick ones.

I've never finished that game because I gave up eventually. It was just impossible for me.

(11-07-2025, 06:51 PM)srnickolas Wrote: When I think of absurdity Curse of Enchantia comes to mind. There is this ONE puzzle that an Inuit that is fishing always faints when you appear on screen, you have to ASSUME that you smell bad and that's why he faints. So get this : you have to WEAR deodorant one screen prior to the Inuit so that he does not faint. I actually solved this out of luck in my Amiga 500 without realizing why, but when I read the walkthrough in a magazine my brain melted. 1992, without internet and the creators are feeling sadistic or a bit looney (too many cartoons). Jesus... still liked the game though

(11-07-2025, 01:55 PM)Wild Boar Wrote: The sliding puzzle in the church in Black Mirror 1.