The hardest puzzle in KQ 1

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Sir Nyrhinen · #1 Post by **Sir Nyrhinen** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:46 pm

What was the hardest puzzle in KQ 1?

I think that the hardest part was that condor thing.

Peter Swinkels · #2 Post by **Peter Swinkels** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:05 pm

I think I agree, the condor part was hard, especially grabbing it's talons??. Also, the beanstalk wasn't very easy to climb, I fell at least once but it isn't as hard as in the original King's Quest I remake. The tunnels in the mountain which lead to cloudland aren't very easy either, I walked off the boardwalk several times...

Adventurer · #3 Post by **Adventurer** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:38 am

The puzzle I had the most trouble with many years ago when I played the origional Kings Quest was figureing out how to give the three treasures to King Edward at the end. There was only one exact line of text that would do it, if I remember correctly "Bow to the King". I tried "Bow", "Bow King", "Bow to King" and about a million other things and then gave up for a year or so before finally seeing the line "Bow to the King" in a sierra catalog picture.

Peter Swinkels · #4 Post by **Peter Swinkels** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:13 pm

Parsers can be frustratingly inflexible, but cursor based interfaces sometimes suffer from similair problems (having to click exactly the right pixel for example.)

Jafar · #5 Post by **Jafar** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:19 am

(having to click exactly the right pixel for example.)

Y'know, I always believed this was a myth made up by parser fans. I never ran into that problem.

Pidgeot · #6 Post by **Pidgeot** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:44 pm

Most games don't have that, but a few do behave that way.

Those games usually have the cursor hotspot marked, though.

anathoth8 · #7 Post by **anathoth8** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:53 pm

The only time I can remember that I ever had trouble with this was in KQVI. Talking to the ferryman the first time at the door of the ferry was a pain. He was very small on screen, he was partially obscured by Alexander, and you had a limited time to do it.

Peter Swinkels · #8 Post by **Peter Swinkels** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:27 pm

Y'know, I always believed this was a myth made up by parser fans. I never ran into that problem.

It doesn't happen often but no, in my case it is not an excuse. It doesn't really matter whether the interface is cursor or parser based to me.

Here is an example of a cursor based game being overly picky about where you click: The part where you need to make medicine in Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist.

Sir Nyrhinen · #9 Post by **Sir Nyrhinen** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:03 pm

Woah! Nice to have good topic. Lets make more posts. :P

Uhanimar · #10 Post by **Uhanimar** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:37 pm

You guy's are picking really easy puzzle to do....

I thought that the hardest was the getting of the beans....figureing out that name was really tricky........

ThreeHeadedMonkey · #11 Post by **ThreeHeadedMonkey** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:11 am

Agreed. I actually took the answer of that puzzle from a walkthrough when I first played KQ1...

And also about the beanstalk. Climbing it in the original remake without getting pissed off is very close to impossible.

Uhanimar · #12 Post by **Uhanimar** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:24 am

ThreeHeadedMonkey wrote:Agreed. I actually took the answer of that puzzle from a walkthrough when I first played KQ1...

And also about the beanstalk. Climbing it in the original remake without getting pissed off is very close to impossible.

OMG i did the exact same thing....

I climbed the beanstalk in the remake and the old one and it was pretty easy if you do it right....

murtaghisagod · #13 Post by **murtaghisagod** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:53 pm

does anyone know what to do with the UMM LOL I am sorry laughing at the smiley faces first time on the forum. ANyways does anyone know what to do with the cheese I asked my friend he said to give it to the mouse but I can't find the mouse.

Meerbat · #14 Post by **Meerbat** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:24 pm

The mouse is the roughly kidney-shaped object that you use to move the cursor with and is either attached with a cable to your computer, or uses a bluetooth or another wireless system.

#15 Post by **Erpy** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:27 pm

You can't beat the game without running into the giant rat, so just keep playing.

AsianMusicGuy · #16 Post by **AsianMusicGuy** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:02 am

i think they were all easy.

bartonjo2 · #17 Post by **bartonjo2** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 1:28 am

all of them without the walkthrough

nah the bookcase

arganite · #18 Post by **arganite** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:36 am

beanstalk in the tierra remake was

but i know what ega games where u need to go down narrow paths and if ur one pixel out it kills you.

Hardest so far was getting the dagger

bartonjo2 · #19 Post by **bartonjo2** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:04 am

the hardest puzzle is in Kingd Quest 3 original, you had to type pat dough or something and none of the walkthroughs i found would work!!! A nightmare

arganite · #20 Post by **arganite** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:00 am

i gave kq3 up after i got zapped by mannanan for having fly wings

bartonjo2 · #21 Post by **bartonjo2** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:57 pm

pretty hard to beat that one was

arganite · #22 Post by **arganite** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:02 am

I gave up on kq3. I heard its good, but im not going to waste time doing it.

bartonjo2 · #23 Post by **bartonjo2** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:49 pm

hey dood the reason your siggy doesnt work is because the braces are backward.

Jawbone · #24 Post by **Jawbone** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:56 am

The hardest puzzle was the rumplestiltskin puzzle. I'm talking about the very very original puzzle where you actually had to reverse the alphabet. I came to that idea in a very odd way. Cripes, thank goodness THAT was taken out. Otherwise, nothing was that bad.

hpl · #25 Post by **hpl** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:46 am

The Beanstalk or the Moutain paths.

God, that pissed me off so much.

Grahm is supposed to be a knight, and later a king, and yet, he can't seem to walk on a simple path with falling to his death. It just pissing me off about Sierra games sometimes, but in the Space Quest games there was an excuse. Roger was, and is, an idiot. That's why he can never be more then a very lucky janitor. I don't see how Grahmn became a knight if he can't walk without falling off a cliff.

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