History Main / TrickShotPuzzle

!!Examples

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': One room in Jabu-Jabu's Belly has you using the Boomerang to hit a switch behind a pane of transparent material. You have to stand at an exact distance from the barrier for the boomerang to hit. The Forest Temple has the classic "fire arrow through fire onto switch" variety.

* A minor version of this appears in ''VideoGame/HalfLife1''. To avoid being turned into swiss cheese by a [[WeakTurretGun tripod turret]] placed around a corner, bounce a grenade or two off the wall to knock it down. Tripmines are often set off from a safe distance in a similar manner.
** The ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' series has you doing this with the Gravity Gun and Energy Orbs.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' both have puzzles involving shooting arrows through a series of devices that alter their trajectory and send them elsewhere (ideally, into a switch).
*** One such puzzle requires the player to string his grappling hook rope across a gap and then [[ImprobableAimingSkills bounce an arrow off of the rope to hit a switch]].
** One room in Jabu-Jabu's Belly in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has you using the Boomerang to hit a switch behind a pane of transparent material. You have to stand at an exact distance from the barrier for the boomerang to hit. The Forest Temple has the classic "fire arrow through fire onto switch" variety.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages]]'' you get a seed gun that bounces [[TrickArrow different varieties of magical seeds]] off walls. It's used for the obligatory "hit the switch around the corner" puzzles. However one boss can only be harmed by seeds [[TeleportSpam while she blinks around an arena]] full of pillars, making trick shots ideal for taking her down quickly. (This is also a notable subversion of PlayingTennisWithTheBoss for the series).
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild]]'' has two variants of this. Either the projectile is spherical and you have to hit a button at the right time/make ice pillars in the right place/move the platform just right to bounce it, or the projectile is one you have to use Stasis on and hit with delayed momentum to send it flying the right way.

* ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' text adventure game has (at least) one of these.

The TrickShotPuzzle is a puzzle where the player has to shoot a projectile from an exactingly specific position and angle to detonate or trip something that is well out of manual reach. This kind of puzzle often involves ricochet physics, such as a ReflectingLaser.

* There's one in ''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'' where you have to shoot an arrow through a hole to activate a secret.

* All the ''WildArms'' games do this a lot, with using various of your tools with terrain features to trip switches or move things.

* You have to do this with ''yourself'' several times in ''SuperMario64'', using the cannons. In the Rainbow Cruise level, aiming at the middle of a rainbow will get you to a floating island with a Star.

* Parodied in ''Series/RedDwarf'', where in order to save the ship, Holly sets up a trick shot involving several planets, a tactical nuclear warhead, and a black hole. The warhead has to be detonated just so, to drive a planetoid out of its orbit, which then hits a larger planet, which in turn is knocked out of its orbit and seals the black hole. Dave Lister looks at the computer simulation and insists Holly's strategy is all wrong and, based on experience palying pool at the Aigburth Arms in Liverpool, he can do it better.

* Parodied in ''Series/RedDwarf'', where in order to save the ship, Holly sets up a trick shot involving several planets, a tactical nuclear warhead, and a black hole. Dave Lister looks at the computer simulation and insists Holly's strategy is all wrong and he can do it better.