8 Video Game Puzzles That Everyone Got Stuck On

Owl – Metal Gear 2

Getting through a laser gate is the hardest trick in all of the Metal Gear games. There’s no way to get through or around it. So, you should shut it off. At night, the thing is turned off by a guard. But the game doesn’t change from day to night.

You have to tell the guard at the gate that it’s nighttime, which is when things get completely crazy. For that, you need to get an owl egg to hatch. The guard will think it’s getting late because of the sound of the owl, so he will turn off the gate. He doesn’t look at the time or notice that it’s still light outside. He only needs to hear an owl to know it’s nighttime. Most people have trouble with this puzzle because it doesn’t make sense.

The Goat Puzzle – Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The Templars

To finish the Goat Puzzle, you have to get to a ladder by getting past an angry goat that is tied down. The trouble is that when you try to get to the ladder, the goat knocks you back. To solve most of the game’s puzzles, you have to find things and sometimes put them together. Because of this, the goat puzzle is hard because you have to use a different way.

You have to purposely get hit by the goat, and when it moves back into place, you have to move a piece of equipment on the other side of the screen. The goat’s leash will get twisted up, so the animal won’t be able to stop you from getting to the ladder. It doesn’t sound too hard, but most players never think of it because it’s so different from what they expect from a Broken Sword game.

Rubber Duck – The Longest Journey

The hardest task in The Longest Journey starts with a key on a subway track that is lit up. You need to get the key, but it’s hard to do because of the power. So, you have to go back to your room and use a gold ring to get a clamp. Then you have to put bread crumbs on a rubber ducky outside your window to get a bird to damage it and move it.

After that, you grab a rope and head outside to get the hurt duck. Lastly, you need to use the clamp, the clothesline, and the rubber duck to make a makeshift fishing line that you can use to grab the key from the train track. It is so hard to understand that it seems impossible to figure out on your own.

Babel Fish Dispenser – The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

The Babel Fish from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game is one of the best fishes that have ever been made. This is because it can translate the language that the Volgons, an alien race, speak. So, to win, you have to beat the game. Unfortunately, it is very hard to get one.

At first, it seems easy because they are in a hopper. But you can’t just type in a code to get a fish. There are many things, like holes and robots that clean, that will take your fish away. And you don’t really know they are there until they steal your scaly translators. So, there will be a lot of trying and failing. If there were more fish, this wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Getting rid of them will make things worse for you later in the game.

Steal The Gold Belt Buckle – Discworld

In this point-and-click adventure game, you have to give a dragon a lot of gold, like a gold belt buckle, at one point. The fishmonger’s pants are being held up by the only person in Drive Mad. So you have to think of a way to steal it. It sounds easier than it is, because the process is too hard.

Start by tying up and picking up the octopus the seller is selling. Then you have to put the animal in a nearby outhouse and give it a pot of custard. After that, you have to put some prunes in the caviar from the grocer. When he eats it, he’ll have to go to the bathroom right away. In the process, the octopus attacks him, and you can take the buckle from his pants after he throws them away. All of that seems hard to figure out without help, and a sensible person wouldn’t do any of it to steal a buckle.

Shakespeare’s Stanzas – Silent Hill 3

The people who made Silent Hill 3 thought that anyone who played it on “hard” must know a lot about Shakespeare. After all, they put in a puzzle that can only be solved if you know the writer’s work well. The main idea is that you have to figure out a four-digit code to open a door, and the only thing you have to go on is a poem.

Several of Shakespeare’s plays are mentioned in the piece. And you have to figure out which ones they are and put them in the order they show up in the poem. When they are in the right order, you get a five-digit number. Still, that’s one number too much. So, based on the poem, you have to figure out which number needs to be taken away while doubling a few of the others. Even though this series is known for having problems that are hard to solve, this one is especially hard.

Guessing The Gnome’s Name – King’s Quest

Trying to figure out someone’s name without any real clues is less of a puzzle and more of a job that can’t be done. But this is what you have to do in the first King’s Quest game. But if you’re familiar with fairy tales, you might think it’s easy because the subject is a gnome. So, Rumpelstiltskin is a popular name for gnomes.

But that would be a wrong guess. Then you might remember a hazy note in the game that says something about thinking backward. Rumpelstiltskin is the opposite of “Nikstlitslepmur,” which is also not the right answer. It’s talking about the alphabet when it says that things are going backward. So, since ‘R’ is the 18th letter of the alphabet, you have to count back 18 from ‘Z’ to find the first letter of the name. Then do this for every other letter in Rumpelstiltskin. It is a stupid game.

The Black Monolith – Fez

Fez is one of the best puzzle games because it is well thought out and has beautiful graphics. But it is also a hard game to win. But the real test comes when you try to get all of the red cubes in “New Game Plus.” One of them is stuck inside a black mass. It takes some work to get the monolith to come out in the first place, but that’s possible.

To get the red cubes to show up, you have to press a different set of buttons. And it seems like no one has ever solved it, so you might not be able to figure it out on your own. The people who played the game worked hard to figure out the order by using brute force. There have been ideas about how to figure out the code in a legal way, but nothing solid has ever come out of them.