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most confusing conundrums number 10
lieutenant surges power switches pokemon
red and blue
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gotta press em all in the first entry in
Nintendo’s
earth-shatteringly popular franchise
your job is to become the very best like
no one ever was standing in your way are
eight tough gym leaders including the
electricity based lieutenant surge while
surges no pushover getting to him is the
big pain as you have to press two
buttons that are randomly located in one
of the many trash cans around a room if
you get one of them wrong the switches
just relocate turning the puzzle into
tedious trial and error it’s too bad you
just can’t get pikachu to sort out the
number nine Naga Sadow’s to Star Wars
it takes someone as wise as Yoda to get
through this one on the first try while
exploring the tomb of the ancient Sith
Lord
Naga Sato the player-character and their
party must face many dangers like
terrifying and violent beasts and
dastardly tramps
but the tombs most diabolical secret is
a ring puzzle to open the tomb you need
to transfer four rings of power from one
pillar to another but only the Rings
highest on their respective pillars can
be moved and you can’t move one ring
above a ring in a higher position so the
rules are kind of simple but the
solution requires forethought and the
patience of a Jedi number eight rotating
roadsign grim fandago it’s really easy
to get lost in these woods the cult
classic adventure game directed by Tim
Schafer contains plenty of his trademark
humor unfortunately it also contains his
penchant for nonsensical solutions to
what should be simple problems early on
protagonist mani finds himself lost in
the Petrified Forest
he’s carrying a road sign and every time
he puts it down it points in a new
direction
obviously it’s pointing in the direction
you need to go right no it’s actually
pointing to where you need to place the
sign itself which then activates a
secret passage you’ll most likely be as
dead as mani before you figure this one
out
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yeah number seven mium Agana apparatus
Legend of Zelda breath of the wild
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there’s no faint more terrible than
having to solve a puzzle with janky
motion controls in one of the countless
shrines in Nintendo’s massive open world
adventure link is forced to take a break
from exploring fighting and horseback
riding to solve what should be a fast
and simple puzzle involving navigating a
ball through a maze but the forced
motion controls turn the would be
exercised in precision into an exercise
in frustration as the slightest move
will send the ball into a bottomless pit
luckily there is technically an easier
solution all you have to do is think
outside the box or in this case outside
number six hypnotize the monkey monkey
island– to lechuck’s revenge excuse me
yeah boy Largo Legrand has left scam
island for good he may fight like a
dairy farmer but he solves puzzles like
a pro in the sequel to the original
LucasArts cult classic affable pirate
guy brush Threepwood comes across a
waterfall that can be turned off with a
pump to work the pump guy brush needs a
wrench nothing a quick trip to the local
hardware store can’t solve right except
instead guy brush needs to find a piano
playing monkey stick a banana in the
monkeys timekeeping metronome and then
steal the hypnotized monkey to use the
poor simian as a wrench get it it’s a
monkey wrench teehee hey did we mention
that tim schafer also worked on this
game number 5 chapter 10 hotel dusk room
for a salesman former detective Kyle
Hyde’s shirt gets into a lot of trouble
in this war themed visual novel the
game’s last chapter also fittingly
involves one of its toughest and most
nerve-racking puzzles trapped in an
airtight room and quickly running out of
air Kyle must boot up an old computer
armed with only his wits a pencil a nail
file and the Nintendo DS’s extra
features Kyle uses the pencils graphite
to give the PC the charge it needs to
turn on add the life-or-death time limit
and this one is a real mystery that’s
tough to forget no matter how many times
you get hit in the head number four
hatching the owl Metal Gear 2 Solid
Snake
a Hideo Kojima puzzle that’s as
confusing as his narratives before snake
went 3d with Metal Gear Solid he was
giving guards to slip in two dimensions
in the second installment of the Metal
Gear series but when a top-secret
facility is guarded by an impenetrable
laser fence there’s only one way to
sneak in to find a random egg walk up to
the facility’s gate wait for the egg to
hatch into an owl and release that owl
which will then hoot convincing one of
the guards that it’s night time and thus
time to turn off the Laser grid get it
no now here’s number three Solan meta
must find one more page and I will be
forever free to get through this level
you have to keep both your mind and your
ears open in this expansive pointing
click adventure game it’s very easy to
get lost but the most notoriously
difficult era is the maze-like island
known as the cylinder gate
this labyrinthine world is filled with
dead ends and wrong turns making a pen
and pencil a must to keep track of where
you are but while map making is par for
the course with missed the twist in the
sella Minik age is how you navigate
mainly by listening to different sounds
around the island so walk softly and
carry a big pair of headphones
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number two sealing off the smell
professor layton and the diabolical box
the answer is how bad look but I just
need to find it we wonder if professor
Layton’s homework is as hard as the
brainteasers he has to solve for a
living case in point a grocery store
owner named Garland asked the good
professor to help him seal up a
container of garlic to cut off the
stinky smell
but while the container has three
openings at the top the professor only
has two corks to plug them with while it
may seem like you’d need to find the
right combination of where to place the
two corks on the container the actual
answer is almost maddeningly simple
you’re actually supposed to use the two
corks to plug Garland’s nostrils
when in doubt follow your nose and plug
challenge is a bit of an understatement
in the beautiful riddle filled world of
the witness the optional and secret
challenge features some of the toughest
and most brain-melting puzzles of all
after discovering the secret area known
as the caves the player must solve
several line drawing puzzles using every
previously introduced mechanic in the
game to find the solutions and while
walkthroughs Mike help with the puzzles
in the main game they’re next to useless
here because every puzzle in the
challenge has randomly generated
elements meaning no amount of internet
knowledge can save you but hey when you
solve it you get an achievement so
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