6 D&D Puzzles to Steal for Your Next Session

[@enterthedungeon]

Go to my sponsor aura.com/enterthedungeon to get a 14-day free trial and see how much of yours is being sold. Also, what is a puzzle you enjoyed from a campaign? Leave it in the comments below.

[@ccarter1988]

Number one is not a puzzle, its a full on multi session dungeon crawl lol

[@enterthedungeon]

Lol, if you want it to be. There's a full pdf on my patreon for those wanting to run it as a full dungeon level for that reason!

[@SplinterInYourEye]

Puzzles like these would absolutely stump the vast majority of players in my experience.

[@enterthedungeon]

I didn't even throw my hardest puzzle in this video...an unlocked door. It stands in a perfectly normal hallway. No traps. No monsters. The players can walk through it any time they like. Current record for completion: 1 hour and 13 minutes.

[@SplinterInYourEye]

@@enterthedungeon I did this with a talking door that asked riddles. The door was always unlocked. Took my players an hour.

[@ianlol9303]

Cool bird puzzle

[@brianedner8125]

THANK YOU! that gemstone word is just what I needed for a story I am writing.

[@stoephil]

8:55 Please note that it does not work in latin languages (spanish, italian, french...). I'm french and the notes here have other names (do ré mi fa sol la si) than in germanic languages like english.

[@k9ten396]

You could maybe do do re mi because it’s kindaaaaa like dormir but that might be a stretch

[@alalessia]

I would probably just change it to the key in their ear humming a tune (which they can only hear when it's in their ear lol) that they have to hum along to

[@fernandoneto8711]

Well, we also use ABCDEFG… It depends on the context

[@luffyswaifu420]

Great video thank you for sharing! So much of this can be interchanged and dropped in easily and I appreciate that!

[@djohns9295]

Great transition into the Ad, well done. 😁

[@MemphiStig]

Love it. Great puzzles, great ways to make puzzles.

[@X3n0n36]

Bro what's with these comments so negative these ideas are awesome, not to replicate 1 to 1 but as a source of inspiration. I'm going to use the gem puzzle hinting heavily on the word sun in the design of a tower, on one of the floors they will found a box full of gems (also as a premtive reward) and on the last floor they will find a magic table with the sockets for the gems, opening a secret underground floor

[@thefog13]

Honestly… terrible puzzles, most are either 1) dungeon crawls (such as 1), 2) not at all easy to apply in D&D (where are you gonna find pylons in medieval hobbitland?) or 3) crazy complicated (I bet you 50% of your players won’t even know all four types of bird).

[@conmore1]

Posted at the perfect time; I just started reading the 3.5e book of Challenges for puzzles

[@Gmorktron]

I love that this game can be played so many different ways. And I'm glad you enjoy these as well. I have one player at my table that like riddles and puzzles... everyone else hates them... and as a DM I don't mind giving my players what they like, but I not a fan of elaborate puzzles either. My favorite are the anti-puzzles. Take the big elaborate bird puzzle you got. But it's all red herring and the door has a secret lever, switch, button, or something like that on the birds. Or even the door is unlocked and swings open if you try it.

[@PoharaMaori]

About to run a game in an hour, perfect timing thank you!

[@Locusthorde3000]

Many of these would be way too difficult. Especially the "DOG" one, I dont think many players would understand that without obvious hints. inb4 some keyboard warriors say they'd get that instantly, no you wouldnt lmao

[@jadaw5188]

First comment claim 🫶🏽 love your content bby 🤍🤍

[@daveshif2514]

1- not a puzzle 2- oldest puzzle in the book, boring, no thematic connection to anything, forcing players to find something you eventually literally have to give them isnt a good puzzle for ttrpgs 3- boring, wayyy too many moving parts, too much exposition, no thematic connection to anything cool at all 4- the mummy archway is the only well designed one here, and that is mostly because you have good clues for it. Fails without an arcane user to examine the arcane portal. actually has some player agency and rp potential with having to wake up the sleeping character after passing them through, etc. solid 4/5 5- monkey island logic bs. 6- again, boring and illogical. no one likes having to find a book hinted at in a riddle to do a first grader shapes puzzle, and you even said it yourself the last one makes no sense, at least cut the bird that isnt really a shape... Sorry but these are really not good and DMs should stay away from this kind of puzzle design.

[@Lionmonkey4real]

Ok, but how do you convey to players thst the setting's world uses English and the gem names as well as passwords wont be something entirely different?

[@sharkastic2633]

Watching this to be ready when I have a dm who watched this video.

[@searose6192]

Yellow to purple?

[@lobstermann]

yayy

[@OfalaYT]

200k steg när?!?! Jag kan gå med dig ;)

[@michaelmuirhead910]

Good stuff. I’m going to add in a few to add some other challenges for my players.

[@soldierbreed]

Nothing like have the players gather all the keys and then when they go to try them the last person to leave the treasure room never locked the door. All thei had to do was push 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈

[@theserpentshallwin]

When you really need to slam the breaks on your campaign, and turn your players into murder hobos, just use these puzzles?,,, that they will never solve in a whole campaign's worth of time.