professor layton once said every puzzle
has an answer but these puzzles make him
seem sadistic welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our list
for the top 10 hardest videogame puzzles
for this list we’re looking at puzzles
in video games that were so hard to
complete they left us pulling our hair
out in frustration in order to be
eligible the puzzles must be from a
major game release and that means no
user created games maps etc it must also
be one specific puzzle from the game so
no riddles from the Arkham games or the
infamous water temple from Ocarina of
Time as those are a collection of
puzzles and finally as usual one puzzle
per franchise I have something that will
be of great use to you but first sir
gram you must answer this riddle number
10 the cigar wrapper Ripley’s Believe It
or Not the riddle of Master Duke I know
I don’t smoke but cigarettes certainly
make you look sophisticated I wonder if
they’re as good for your health as a
scientist claim this game based on the
famous Ripley’s books and attractions
sees you as Ripley himself as he travels
the world the chariot isn’t a sculpture
it looks real in this specific puzzle a
guard to a temple asked you for a ring
in order to gain entrance
that’s an interesting ring you’re
wearing it is the ring of the hidden way
only those of the temple may wear it
after looking around forever and not
finding one you have to figure out to
take the cigar from your inventory and
pop off the cigar band and use that as a
ring it’s both challenging and
frustrating due to the fact that the
game never hints at the possibility that
you could just fake it as you see I’m a
member of the temple
you may pause number nine shakespeare’s
stanzas Silent Hill 3 the Silent Hill
series are a bunch of terrifying games
but this puzzle in the 3rd swapped our
fear for frustration just like the piano
puzzle from the original the player must
organize Shakespeare books in order to
be given a clue on the hardest
difficulty the clues are written in
Shakespearean English and reference the
plays and the player has to figure out
which play the clue is referring to not
only that but specific Clues reference
the need to change numbers from the
completed order it’s a confusing mess
number 8 the goat puzzle Broken Sword
the shadow of the Templars the animal
fixed on me with an evil glare behind
the malice and resentment there was a
cool intelligence as an American tourist
unraveling a conspiracy in Paris you
come across a goat blocking the entrance
to a castle attempts to walk past him
only end in a head-butting the solution
is simple allow him to headbutt you no
really
then get up quicker than usual run to a
piece of farm machinery and then have
him attempt to but you again only to get
tangled in the machinery allowing you to
pass technically it’s easy but it’s also
not very intuitive because you’re left
to assume that having him hit you is a
failure the ropes by which the goat was
tethered and become tangled on the old
ploughshare number 7 the battle fish
puzzle The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
galaxy the Babel Fish is small yellow
leech-like and probably the oddest thing
in the universe
we’re going way back for this one based
on the book series of the same name this
text adventure game has you traveling
the universe and getting stuck on a very
serious puzzle usually the fish
dispenses but slips away under the drain
no worries all you need to do is put a
towel over the drain
we hope you remember to bring one then
steal a character satchel and put it in
front of the panel after that you put
some junk mail on the satchel and then
press the dispenser this was so
notoriously hard infocomm who designed
the game sold t-shirts that read I got
the battle fish the practical upshot of
WIC is that if you stick one in your ear
you instantly understand anything sent
to you in any language
number six chamber 18 portal portal a
game about solving puzzles using a gun
to create two portals to travel through
is rife with challenging puzzles but
chamber 18 is the worst
it’s an overall challenging chamber full
of sections not fit to shoot turrets
that you have to dispose of ledge
dumping and platform riding basically
everything which goes into the puzzle
game has gone into this chamber what
makes it even worse are the time switch
sections that keep you on your toes
number 5 the water sample resident evil
3 nemesis
the third title in the classic series
finds Jill Valentine wandering through
Raccoon City attempting to avoid the
nemesis but her greatest challenge might
be this brain teaser the puzzle is like
reversed Tetris in which the player has
to arrange the colored cubes in order to
complete a specific combination of wave
ranges it’s difficult to do to the
constant back and forth between wave
ranges and the fact that the result is
different for each playthrough the
annoying beeping sound throughout the
puzzle really doesn’t help either number
for the rubber duckie puzzle the longest
journey I know that duck oh my gosh
duckie in this puzzle from the cult
classic point-and-click adventure you
need to recover a dropped key from a
subway rail so what do you do scatter
crumbs from an apparent window so a
seagull will peck a rubber duck into the
canal below causing it to flow down the
river then locate the duck tie a line to
a clamp put it through the keyhole
re-inflate the duck then position it
like a fishing line over the key so the
duck deflates and traps the key it’s
really insane when you think about it
number three the black monolith Fez
this platforming / puzzle game brought
out a community of players that has
rarely been seen in any other video game
okay first you have to stand in a
specific area of the level and input a
set of buttons to make the monolith
appear then the player has to input
another specific set of buttons in order
to complete the puzzle the buttons are
so obscure and complex that many players
simply believed it to be unsolvable and
it was only figured out with a massive
coordinated effort from the community
number 2
the moustache Gabriel Knight 3 the
moustache he should help disguise the
obvious disparity between his face and 9
this game about an infant kidnapped from
a Scottish family of nobles as one of
the most frustrating and nonsensical
puzzles in all of gaming in order to
take a reserved motorcycle the player
has to impersonate the man with the
reservation by resembling the picture in
his passport this leads to finding
clothes but the infamous part is where
you have to put tape on a hole in a door
spray a cat have it run into the tape
and then steal the hair off of said tape
to make a fake mustache
why you couldn’t just draw one on your
face with a sharpie is beyond me ah
Monsieur Mosely yes I have a reservation
for you one moment before we unveil our
top pick let’s take a look at a few
honorable mentions
number one name that Nome King’s Quest
now what in the world would you do with
a gnome the night gram is stopped by a
known and forced to guess his name some
people figured that the gnome was
Rumplestiltskin but a clue urges players
to think backwards
so naturally spelling it backwards meant
his name should be whatever the hell
that is backwards right as a reward for
your sharp intellect
here are some beans well actually no the
alphabet has to be reversed not the
letters meaning a is Z B is Y etc making
his name a horrible vomitus concoction
of letters mind you in the 2001 remake
you can actually use Rumpelstiltskin
backwards to guess his name probably
because no one could figure out or guess
that you had to reverse the alphabet do
you agree with our list which insane
videogame puzzle made you want to rage
quit I didn’t think you are that clever
for more top 10s that don’t require you
to do anything absurd at all be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com that’s right
I will not thank you so much
has an answer but these puzzles make him
seem sadistic welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’re counting down our list
for the top 10 hardest videogame puzzles
for this list we’re looking at puzzles
in video games that were so hard to
complete they left us pulling our hair
out in frustration in order to be
eligible the puzzles must be from a
major game release and that means no
user created games maps etc it must also
be one specific puzzle from the game so
no riddles from the Arkham games or the
infamous water temple from Ocarina of
Time as those are a collection of
puzzles and finally as usual one puzzle
per franchise I have something that will
be of great use to you but first sir
gram you must answer this riddle number
10 the cigar wrapper Ripley’s Believe It
or Not the riddle of Master Duke I know
I don’t smoke but cigarettes certainly
make you look sophisticated I wonder if
they’re as good for your health as a
scientist claim this game based on the
famous Ripley’s books and attractions
sees you as Ripley himself as he travels
the world the chariot isn’t a sculpture
it looks real in this specific puzzle a
guard to a temple asked you for a ring
in order to gain entrance
that’s an interesting ring you’re
wearing it is the ring of the hidden way
only those of the temple may wear it
after looking around forever and not
finding one you have to figure out to
take the cigar from your inventory and
pop off the cigar band and use that as a
ring it’s both challenging and
frustrating due to the fact that the
game never hints at the possibility that
you could just fake it as you see I’m a
member of the temple
you may pause number nine shakespeare’s
stanzas Silent Hill 3 the Silent Hill
series are a bunch of terrifying games
but this puzzle in the 3rd swapped our
fear for frustration just like the piano
puzzle from the original the player must
organize Shakespeare books in order to
be given a clue on the hardest
difficulty the clues are written in
Shakespearean English and reference the
plays and the player has to figure out
which play the clue is referring to not
only that but specific Clues reference
the need to change numbers from the
completed order it’s a confusing mess
number 8 the goat puzzle Broken Sword
the shadow of the Templars the animal
fixed on me with an evil glare behind
the malice and resentment there was a
cool intelligence as an American tourist
unraveling a conspiracy in Paris you
come across a goat blocking the entrance
to a castle attempts to walk past him
only end in a head-butting the solution
is simple allow him to headbutt you no
really
then get up quicker than usual run to a
piece of farm machinery and then have
him attempt to but you again only to get
tangled in the machinery allowing you to
pass technically it’s easy but it’s also
not very intuitive because you’re left
to assume that having him hit you is a
failure the ropes by which the goat was
tethered and become tangled on the old
ploughshare number 7 the battle fish
puzzle The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
galaxy the Babel Fish is small yellow
leech-like and probably the oddest thing
in the universe
we’re going way back for this one based
on the book series of the same name this
text adventure game has you traveling
the universe and getting stuck on a very
serious puzzle usually the fish
dispenses but slips away under the drain
no worries all you need to do is put a
towel over the drain
we hope you remember to bring one then
steal a character satchel and put it in
front of the panel after that you put
some junk mail on the satchel and then
press the dispenser this was so
notoriously hard infocomm who designed
the game sold t-shirts that read I got
the battle fish the practical upshot of
WIC is that if you stick one in your ear
you instantly understand anything sent
to you in any language
number six chamber 18 portal portal a
game about solving puzzles using a gun
to create two portals to travel through
is rife with challenging puzzles but
chamber 18 is the worst
it’s an overall challenging chamber full
of sections not fit to shoot turrets
that you have to dispose of ledge
dumping and platform riding basically
everything which goes into the puzzle
game has gone into this chamber what
makes it even worse are the time switch
sections that keep you on your toes
number 5 the water sample resident evil
3 nemesis
the third title in the classic series
finds Jill Valentine wandering through
Raccoon City attempting to avoid the
nemesis but her greatest challenge might
be this brain teaser the puzzle is like
reversed Tetris in which the player has
to arrange the colored cubes in order to
complete a specific combination of wave
ranges it’s difficult to do to the
constant back and forth between wave
ranges and the fact that the result is
different for each playthrough the
annoying beeping sound throughout the
puzzle really doesn’t help either number
for the rubber duckie puzzle the longest
journey I know that duck oh my gosh
duckie in this puzzle from the cult
classic point-and-click adventure you
need to recover a dropped key from a
subway rail so what do you do scatter
crumbs from an apparent window so a
seagull will peck a rubber duck into the
canal below causing it to flow down the
river then locate the duck tie a line to
a clamp put it through the keyhole
re-inflate the duck then position it
like a fishing line over the key so the
duck deflates and traps the key it’s
really insane when you think about it
number three the black monolith Fez
this platforming / puzzle game brought
out a community of players that has
rarely been seen in any other video game
okay first you have to stand in a
specific area of the level and input a
set of buttons to make the monolith
appear then the player has to input
another specific set of buttons in order
to complete the puzzle the buttons are
so obscure and complex that many players
simply believed it to be unsolvable and
it was only figured out with a massive
coordinated effort from the community
number 2
the moustache Gabriel Knight 3 the
moustache he should help disguise the
obvious disparity between his face and 9
this game about an infant kidnapped from
a Scottish family of nobles as one of
the most frustrating and nonsensical
puzzles in all of gaming in order to
take a reserved motorcycle the player
has to impersonate the man with the
reservation by resembling the picture in
his passport this leads to finding
clothes but the infamous part is where
you have to put tape on a hole in a door
spray a cat have it run into the tape
and then steal the hair off of said tape
to make a fake mustache
why you couldn’t just draw one on your
face with a sharpie is beyond me ah
Monsieur Mosely yes I have a reservation
for you one moment before we unveil our
top pick let’s take a look at a few
honorable mentions
number one name that Nome King’s Quest
now what in the world would you do with
a gnome the night gram is stopped by a
known and forced to guess his name some
people figured that the gnome was
Rumplestiltskin but a clue urges players
to think backwards
so naturally spelling it backwards meant
his name should be whatever the hell
that is backwards right as a reward for
your sharp intellect
here are some beans well actually no the
alphabet has to be reversed not the
letters meaning a is Z B is Y etc making
his name a horrible vomitus concoction
of letters mind you in the 2001 remake
you can actually use Rumpelstiltskin
backwards to guess his name probably
because no one could figure out or guess
that you had to reverse the alphabet do
you agree with our list which insane
videogame puzzle made you want to rage
quit I didn’t think you are that clever
for more top 10s that don’t require you
to do anything absurd at all be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com that’s right
I will not thank you so much
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