The sort of thing in the image. Dummy simple, party still somehow gets it entirely wrong because the DM offhandedly mentioned a goose 30 minutes ago which was definitely a hint.
An insanely complex puzzle that the players are realistically not going to be able to solve, so the DM is just going to let them try shit for a half hour until he finally says, “yeah that works.”
And then there’s a mythical third kind where it’s actually a good puzzle. idk I don’t think they’re real.
Fourth Type: the DM got it from the internet, doesn’t notice it has a logical or factual error, and then insists the player solutions don’t work because that’s not what the paper reads.
Two major kinds of DnD puzzles:
The sort of thing in the image. Dummy simple, party still somehow gets it entirely wrong because the DM offhandedly mentioned a goose 30 minutes ago which was definitely a hint.
An insanely complex puzzle that the players are realistically not going to be able to solve, so the DM is just going to let them try shit for a half hour until he finally says, “yeah that works.”
And then there’s a mythical third kind where it’s actually a good puzzle. idk I don’t think they’re real.
Fourth Type: the DM got it from the internet, doesn’t notice it has a logical or factual error, and then insists the player solutions don’t work because that’s not what the paper reads.