I don't think there's any one game that has all my favorite types of puzzles. I like games like Riven and RHEM, where the puzzles are tightly integrated with the game environment. But I also liked the puzzles in Shivers, 7th Guest, Safecracker, and the Jewels of the Oracle games, because of the variety of puzzles, even if there isn't much of a game environment or story outside of the puzzles (as with the Jewels games). One of my favorite puzzles was in an unlikely game -- the Myst O' Tyme puzzle in Escape from Monkey Island. Another of my favorite puzzles was the insult swordfighting in Secret of Monkey Island. Why? Not because it was difficult, but because it was funny to solve. I don't usually like inventory puzzles, but I liked Return to Mysterious Island because of how you could assemble, disassemble, and reassemble the inventory to solve different puzzles.
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