10 Video Game Puzzles That Stopped EVERYONE

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO FIGURE THAT OUT?!
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[@johnclaxton9878]

silent hill school piano was one of the earliest and hardest i encountered as was no internet and limited gaming mags

[@joshualgriffin]

I'm with you there. Sigh...I miss those games.

[@wakeokami535]

So true

[@johngaughan5232]

I had to buy a guide for that puzzle when they still printed those

[@Brandon-iv8pf]

God damn even the guide didn’t help if you didn’t know the keys

[@snake4342001]

My copy froze Everytime I'd try the piano

[@Mark73]

In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game, you had to get a babel fish out of a vending machine. When you pressed the the button on the machine the fish would fly out of it and get lost where you couldn't get to it. You basically had to set up a Rube Goldberg machine around the room to get ahold of it. And on top of that, it would be be very easy to set up the correct stuff around the room and when you got it right the machine would be out of fish (locking you out of victory, forcing you to reload a saved game).

[@danielmiller3596]

Oddly, I loved that one once I figured it out. Oddly enough from homework.

[@christopher-T53]

Tunic's the Door in the Mountains is one of the most gratifying puzzles I've ever figured out. My big "eureka" moment happened at work after nearly a week thinking on it

[@Lynxan]

This was the first thing I thought of.... getting some of those pages.. what the hell.

[@tiktikboom2371]

That damn piano puzzle in silent hill had my teenage brain frazzled actually gave up the game for near half a year, eventually managed it lol. Such a great game.

[@Kate_Hanami]

my dad said "when you solve that puzzle, I'll go downtown with you the same day and buy you a new game" and that's yet to happen

[@scotthodgins7975]

While you did mention 'getting the Babel fish' from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you could have at least given an honourable mention to any game that involved Douglas Adams. Both the HHGTTG game and his collaboration with Terry Jones of Monty Python fame - Starship Titanic both have some rather ridiculous puzzles to solve.

[@joshuaweston6531]

That Monkey Wrench puzzle was some bizarre, albeit clever, video game logic. However, I'd argue figuring out Monkey Kombat in the 4th Monkey Island game is equally confounding!

[@GoForthNDie666]

One game that never gets any Love on puzzle lists is Full Throttle, that game was a pain in the ass when it first came out in the 90's, and even the remaster had me stumped a few times again for a few hours.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Every puzzle in Overblood was pretty hard. Not cos they were hard but because of how the game handled. First puzzle: Freezing room, you're slowly dying. Nothing you check works. Solution? CROUCH and check things. Later on, you pick up liquid nitrogen but the lift you use is shakey and needs oiling. Oil? Crouch and check on of the boxes. Again, none of this is mentioned, there's no glint or hint and you NEED to crouch. Broken bridge? Well, see that tiny bit left over there? Jump. No, seriously, jump, JUST land on it, then HOLD FORWARD AND X to grab the ledge as that bit falls. Massive tidal wave coming to kill you? Just jump directly up. No, that's not a light above your head, it's the exit. But you wouldn't know that cos you don't have time to look up and can't see it's an opening from before the wave comes. And the lack of glint? You have about 5 enemies to kill in game, which use ammo, ammo and health packs you need to find, alone, with no glint, and running out of ammo means death basically. I'm just saying, there's a reason it lets you save anywhere at any time.

[@KaneCharlesFoster]

The Monkey's Island puzzle was even more puzzling in international versions. As an example, in Italy the name of the tool needed is not even close to containing "monkey" in its name, a rough translation from italian to english would be something like "english key" or maybe "english wrench", so no way for the unlucky italian translators to have a working pun any way connected to the solution and for the average italian player to guess it.

[@Just4Fun-Zocker]

Yeah, whenever the solution to a puzzle, or maybe a code, is a pun, it's usually lost in translation to other languages and therefore makes even less sense in those versions.

[@Ad-jl7si]

So glad Broken Sword gets a mention. My all time favourite game. I button bashed this puzzle and got lucky. 😅

[@kingoftherain]

I remember renting The Adventures Of Alundra way back in the late 90s and getting stuck at the puzzle with some ghosts in a crypt. I managed to solve it eventually, but years later I learned that a lot of people got stuck here and searched for the solution online, because they couldn't figure it out.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Video game puzzles that stopped me specifically: Literally every sliding tile puzzle.

[@dorabrooks76]

Same. I'm terrible at those things, both in video games and irl...

[@brodriguez11000]

Puzzles for the tone deaf.

[@kakolicht]

The piano puzzle in Silent Hill 1. I stopped playing the game until I saw the solution in a magazine.

[@mygrains5013]

You should include the timed water puzzle from Onimusha: Warlords in one of your puzzle lists at some point. It isn't as much of a brain-bender as it is just flat out annoying. If it's your first time doing it without a quick guide, good luck.

[@tylerreinhard2697]

To this day, that puzzle gives me anxiety!! ....but I still have hope that a new Onimusha will be announced.

[@sophiaheaton6197]

The water puzzle in RE 3 was a pain in the ass

[@Falchion1984]

Have you tried to reassemble and resurrect an alien turtle in The Dig? That drove me nuts when I was a kid.

[@Stjurgeon]

Riddles should be fun and logical to solve. I hate it when developers put obscure and needlessly complicated puzzles into a game just for the sake of it, to pat themselves on the back over how creative and clever they think they are.

[@youresobogus766]

not having the video chapters separated is actually wild for a list channel, get with the times

[@chrisrulton1131]

The monkey wrench I managed by accident. Getting the right mixture for the spitting contest broke me.

[@felipeborges106]

i missed the birds/piano puzzle in the original Silent Hill

[@donaldfrederick501]

Tomb of Naga Sadow, Korriban, Knights of the Old Republic - ala the Star Wars version of The Tower of Hanoi puzzle.

[@joso7228]

I once spent 2 days inside a Buddhist Temple in Tomb Raider looking for a super secret puzzle to escape. After my 3rd nervous breakdown I realised I just had to jump out of a window.

[@arrongumbrell539]

The puzzles in Fear Effect 1 & 2 I felt you needed a PhD to solve. Think i ended up using a walkthrough for both games.

[@jordanredman3497]

Destiny 2's Bastion Fusion Rifle community event was epic and the Niobi Labs puzzles were amazing as well.

[@TheShadowguy64]

Want to know what is funny about the Dark Souls 3 one was? No one ever seems to notice that the message (show your humanity) was probably written by someone who doesn’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”. When you know this you that they want to see that “you are humanity”, and expects you to prove it. Very clear clue by FromSoft’s standards.

[@changunn]

I was crazy stuck on that Onimusha warlords wall spike puzzle lol

[@joshburch8825]

The stain glass puzzle in the church in resident evil 4 is a pain in the ass

[@Justin-nl9sn]

What?! The reset trick from X-Men doesn't make the list? Maybe some wouldn't consider it a puzzle, but it literally stopped the game. Pre-internet kid me took a year to figure that out, and it was completely on accident.

[@jordanwalker2804]

Even with a walk through, I'd never have the patience for most of these... Skyrim ruins, Pokemon floor panels and NiNoKuni translations - that's my level.

[@Aasmodeuss]

The ridiculous tile puzzles in Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous were so annoyoing I didn't bother finishing them, even with a guide.

[@vine1313]

Probably the ones I looked up the most were the puzzles housing the memories from Assassins Creed 2. While some of them were really easy, some of them were not so much. I havent gone back and played that game in years though, so maybe it was just me being young....

[@j0hnn13K]

unlocking the secret in PayDay2 was one of the bigger head scratchers for me.

[@seanbordenkircher7854]

You guys want to see some crazy rays? Look up gameplay of the 1997 PC game "Armed and Delirious". Ross Scott here on KZbin did a great job covering it's madness.

[@SilverSpectre266]

The Braille puzzle for the Regis in Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby. Not sure how most kids were supposed to get that. I randomly stumbled upon the braille alphabet while looking in a dictionary while doing homework one day Or the Manaphy puzzle in PLA that had its clues hidden in the remakes of Diamond and Pearl instead of the actual game itself

[@landismithCOJ]

A few Tortured Souls puzzles come to mind....

[@slimscorpio09]

Hearing these entry’s I understand why a lot gamers don’t like puzzle games. Like how in the hell do these developers expect someone to figure this out. I played tunic and the main reason I stopped playing half way thru was the puzzles got annoyed with it.

[@dave0smeg]

I got stuck on Broken Sword trying to get the toilet brush. The game was stuck in a loop with the boy, kebab seller, and bartender.

[@000mjd]

I saw the title and inmediately knew the Broken Sword goat will be there

[@meno11408]

The puzzle in Phantom Hourglass which required you to shut the DS. I accidentally solved it by giving up and just shutting the DS

[@brettpikkert4746]

Shout out to kings quest, the game series of my childhood family game nights

[@andrewwaldschmitt4757]

Daymare 1998 requires you to learn or know Greek. A computer you need to hack has a Greek keyboard and you need to answer questions written in English using it. Maybe I missed some in game translation key, but I had to look it up.

[@evillordbeerus2455]

The "monkey wrench" puzzle was unfair to those of us who correctly identify it as a "pipe wrench".

[@alexg7812]

The Secret World. Almost all of them required some insane knowledge.

[@aretnap3653]

"Welcome Back to CYBERIA!"

[@antfrancis9941]

Forbidden siren was a whole damn game that me stopped me dead in my tracks from the very 1st level.

[@muxz]

I'm surprised Castlevania II didn't get a mention.

[@Just4Fun-Zocker]

Let me guess, the "crouch in the corner while holding a certain item and just wait for a tornado to arrive" part.

[@landonewts]

I’m reasonably intelligent, but pretty much any puzzle in a game is hard for me, so I usually cringe when one comes up.. That said, I can sometimes get the hang of things like the movement puzzles in the Horizon series, which I’m sure are easy for most other gamers. Hey, we all have our strengths and weaknesses.

[@theguylevi]

I loved Kings Quest, though the versions released in the 90s were much better...the versions released on console a few years ago are 100% skippable.

[@chrisdoran3673]

All of Discworld 1&2 lol

[@Lorronzo]

Is that Ocarina of Time in that 64 back there? 🧐

[@angrytvrobot6130]

When I was a kid I loved messing around with the Gabriel Knight 3 demo. When I was finally able to get it, I could not get past this stupid puzzle. I gave up and never finished the game.

[@AD3SPG]

I didn't stop I kept going to pursue the death of Zeus !

[@jam3sbarry198]

This could be a Whole list made up of FromSoftware games !! They're All "Almost" impossible to figure out what to do next ! Lol !!

[@carloscanales3183]

Gamepro magazine got me through the silent hill piano puzzle. I would have otherwise never got it.

[@cladladd]

“This was only the fir-“

[@nintendians]

just hated when the game stop you and expect you to get outside source to solve an in-game puzzle.

[@diegoparga9324]

Hope the Monkey Island 2, monkey wrench thing is in the video.

[@seanbcusack]

no mention of fez?

[@KingDomsKingdom85]

Great list and idea for it. Good job. Also, Jess is the stuff men dream of lol. 🤷‍♂️

[@karlaboerger3619]

All King Quest game might come to XBOX Series and PC very soon. Now MS owned it.

[@ryanrowe1975]

Interesting

[@maxevans9906]

Oh yes jess

[@zvzsun8555]

Yaay Jess!!

[@viix3815]

Interesting.

[@terrivel11]

This a reupload?

[@luiskarnov6131]

Lufia 2... ufff

[@changunn]

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

[@TrippyVision220]

Ahhhhh yes.

[@stefanweber6434]

Dont Show the host, Show the games

[@Acidrain82]

I hate that goat

[@SolarDNA]

Hello Jess 😘

[@izzy2802]

Back in the day we read a school book to solve the silent hill 3. We were smarter then.

[@amaurost]

What Culture needs to discontinue lists. These repeats are just annoying.

[@Aloyus_Knight]

Psy already did this video a while ago. Or was it julies? Either way your just rehashing an old video so, why bother?

[@dugakrunoslav]

Hey Jessie, you so fine, you so fine you blow my mind, hey Jessie!!!

[@liamevans9353]

Hello honey jess how are you

[@johnathangiani3966]

We don't need to see your face every min or so. Plz stop.