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Every morning, when I try to find a pair of matching socks. I consider it a pixel-hunting of the greatest difficulty.
Apart from that, I had some serious adventure last year when I successfully broke into my own house when I forgot my keys. It required finding a ladder, climbing into the storage room (not connected with the rest of the house), getting out of the storage room’s back window to the back yard, from there use of the ladder and minor climbing towards the first floor’s balcony, spotting the half-open window, clever use of the clothlsine to a noose, so that I can “pull” the half-opened window’s handle from the outside (that required good target as well, but that’s not an adventure game element), resulting the window to open entirely, allowing me to enter. The funny thing was that there was no key inside either, so I was locked into my own house since I couldn’t leave the way I came in.

When I was playing The Longest Journey I was really affected by April Ryan’s attitude, since I was about her age at the time I really liked the way she managed to live on her own in a “dangerous” neighborhoud and also the way she talked to Zack...

I have a “locked out of the house” story as well

I had lost my keys, my parents weren’t due to be home for many hours, it was winter, and I was, as usual, not dressed for the weather. Waiting outside was not a possibility.

First, I scaled the building to our 2nd floor patio to try the door but found it locked. The only other way in was through a security door that required being buzzed into the building by one of the condo owners in the building. I rang the bells of all my neighbors, but none were home. This is where my adventure game skills had to come into play.

Obviously, in order for anyone to buzz someone into the building it would require an electrical circuit between the condos and the door and it was most assuredly wired in the same place as the intercom and bells as well. Knowing this, I pried open the intercom/bell panel and examined the wiring to figure out which wires would open the door when the proper circuit was bridged.

Unfortunately, none of the metal I had on my person was conductive and/or of sufficient length to bridge the connection so I went outside and “pixel-hunted” the area for a suitable object and came across a rusty nail in the gutter. I scraped it on the concrete to expose the metal and then buzzed myself into the nice warm building with it.

In addition, by pure luck, the door to my condo wasn’t dead-bolted, so I was able to use the credit card trick to open my front door.

Bastich, that is a great story!  You should make an adventure game!  I just would have been calling neighbors.