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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr_Ruminahui" data-source="post: 5566321" data-attributes="member: 81104">I recently did one that worked pretty well - the players really liked it, except for one who is more of a linear thinker than the others (and not much into puzzles).  As a note for my group, you can't do any kind of math related puzzle that won't be solved in seconds.it was a series of three pictures that told a story.  They had the first picture ("the key"), but for the other two they had to choose from 3 different pictures.  All told there were 9 "stories", 3 at the door of each room (plus a set of 3 for the 4th room that the PCs actually knew the answers to - I used those to explain to the PCs how the puzzle worked).  Each door also had the same 3 themes to their stories - each door was associated with a family so one story was about a great wonder that family made, one about the family's feats during the demon war, and one about how the family got their floating castle.I then gave the PCs a bunch of quotes that they "remembered" that related to the various stories in the puzzles - some more vaguely than others.So, for example, for one puzzle the three picture choices were family symbol (the key, or the picture they were given - in this case a lyre), one was location, one was the wonder itself.As for the clues, they had the following:  1.  the list of the 4 great wonders (one being the lost library);  2.  that the nomads would visit the lady of the lyre to sup on her knowledge; and  3.  that tensor's disk was invented to navigate the library's towers of books.From those clues they correctly chose the desert picture (location) and the twin towers (library).My clues were perhaps not obscure enough - they only got two (out of 9) wrong, but one of those was because the PC solving the puzzle misheard the group, not because they "didn't get it".  That said, the consequences of failure were relatively minor, and simply affected the spawning of monsters in the encounter behind the door - each featured a boss monster (a reskinned catastrophy dragon) who each turn created another moster which was either a standard or a minion depending on the failures in the puzzle - get all 3 wrong for that door and it only spawns stardards, get them all right and it only spawns a standard 1-out-of-4 rounds.If you want copies of my word docs for this puzzle, personal message me with your e-mail address and I can send them to you.</blockquote>

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