What's the fut coins designer thinking? As much as I adored Sam Max Hit the Road and countless other LucasArts adventures, I can't tell you the number of times I'd look up a solution and feel no remorse; there was no way that answer would have ever popped in my head.
And don't get me started on the amount of money I may or may not have charged to my parents' phone line calling a 1-800 number for Tex Murphy hints.There was a logic to the puzzles, sure, but the logic often wasn't apparent until you finally solved it.
Some games were worse than others, but even the best of adventure games fell into the trap on occasion."In Myst or whatever," he said, "every frickin' lever looks different, behaves different, you don't know what it does.