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QFG · 07-11-2007, 05:39 PM

I'm not familiar with that puzzle, but if that's true it's got to be a prime candidate.

I'm going to nominate "Infection" - the Go-style bacteria puzzle in The 7th Guest. Not only was there NO "solution" - you just had to improve at the game until you got very lucky and outplayed the devious (and ingenious) AI - but, for me at least, it came early in the game and really killed momentum.

If Stauf had simply put in a dozen variants of the bacteria puzzle in his mansion, no one would ever have learned his secrets, trust me. He would've been home free.

A lot of people nominate the "retrieve the key" sequence in The Longest Journey, but I didn't have problems with that, and my wife literally solved it at first glance.

Looking back, I thought that the entire first sequence of KQIII was devilishly hard, ESPECIALLY the spell-making.

07-11-2007, 05:39 PM	#2
QFG Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Damascus, MD Posts: 515	I'm not familiar with that puzzle, but if that's true it's got to be a prime candidate. I'm going to nominate "Infection" - the Go-style bacteria puzzle in The 7th Guest. Not only was there NO "solution" - you just had to improve at the game until you got very lucky and outplayed the devious (and ingenious) AI - but, for me at least, it came early in the game and really killed momentum. If Stauf had simply put in a dozen variants of the bacteria puzzle in his mansion, no one would ever have learned his secrets, trust me. He would've been home free. A lot of people nominate the "retrieve the key" sequence in The Longest Journey, but I didn't have problems with that, and my wife literally solved it at first glance. Looking back, I thought that the entire first sequence of KQIII was devilishly hard, ESPECIALLY the spell-making.