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When it's the "how" rather than the "why" that's inexplicable, this is [[Already Undone for You]]. When it's the ''solution'' rather than the puzzle that's inexplicable, that's a [[Moon Logic Puzzle]] (which may overlap with this trope in the stranger cases). If it's a musical password, see [[Songs in The Key of Lock]].
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* In the graphical adventure ''Still Life'', you have at one point to bake cookies for the player character's father. For some reason, you can't go forward with your ''serial killing investigation'' without doing this first. The ingredients in the recipe have all been replaced with codewords (like "love" and "compassion") {{spoiler|based on their colors}} and ''no hint to what each codeword means''. With a general idea about cookie recipes you can figure it out... after hours and hours of trial and error.<br /><br />Another puzzle involves the protagonist's ancestor picking the lock of the door of the suspect's art gallery. Too bad that said door has what seems to be the most complex tumbler lock ever built...
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]''
** One needs to find the Ymir Fruit in Ymir Forest before being able to reach Heimdall. This evidently necessitates the painfully tedious process of making the fruit drop into the water, and then ''getting the little fishies to guide the floating fruit all around the forest'' before one can obtain the item. Apparently, eight people cannot try ''anything else'' other than this -- like summoning Undine, using their various weapons to try knocking it somewhere closer by (although it drops into the water reasonably close to the player anyway), asking the party member with * wings* to fly up and grab it, or best of all, just reaching down and grabbing the freaking item (something about "dangerous-looking fish in the water"). "Dangerous-looking fish" is made all the more pointless when you realize that [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|the party contains]] [[The Messiah]], a pair of incredibly powerful magicians, and ''[[The Chosen One|an angel]]''. Over the course of the game they've dealt with ''bunnies'' more intimidating than the "dangerous-looking fish" Lloyd is bitching about. Genis even poked fun at Lloyd for "squaring off" against the fish.<br /><br />To top the whole shenanigan off, an optional skit features Lloyd expressing interest in trying a Ymir fruit for himself. Now, up until this point, anytime you make a mistake in the overly-tedious series of maneuvers required to get the fruit into a position where anyone's willing to expend the effort to reach over and grab it, you could knock a new one into the water and try again. But once you finally nab one, it is apparently the last one in the world ever (those cocksucker fish took all the rest), because everyone gets on Lloyd's case for wanting to eat it when a sick woman needs it as medicine.
** You have to solve a puzzle to open a door. It's not particularly weirder than any other puzzle, except it happens in a facility in which people work and walk around all day. It gets Lampshaded by the two goons that show you how to solve the said puzzle:
{{quote| Desian 1: Oh yeah. This room has a special mechanism.<br />
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