Does Not Illustrate: Moon Logic Puzzle

Okay, this is another one of those tropes where the image is just a few lines of text in GIF format, with no actual image to go with it. I know this trope is hard to illustrate, but this "picture" doesn't help. It's not even a fitting page quote.

It's a little hard to read, and it is just text. The imagery of it doesn't add anything. On the other hand, it's an example of the trope.

The image honestly makes no sense to me. Why is it a xstitch? Am I supposed to understand this is an in-game screenshot for something? What about cathair and what not?

edited 13th Apr '13 5:52:48 PM by helterskelter

It's a cross-stitch dedicated to one particularly infamous puzzle from a Gabriel Knight game, where you had to get a fake mustache from the hair of a cat in order to impersonate somebody (who IIRC didn't even have a mustache).

It's a bad image, though.

Somebody who was frustrated by Gabriel Knight decided to make a cross-stiched plaque talking about (but not actually quoting) one of the nastier puzzles in the game. This is a picture of the plaque, and no, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Unrelatedly except that I'm trying to find a good visual, the examples on this page are all over the place.

Of course they are. This "trope" is basically a list of puzzles (generally in adventure games) that some troper found stupid or overcomplicated, or just didn't get. There's a lot of Complaining About Shows You Dont Like here, and I'm surprised the page isn't YMMV yet. Anyway, that's not for this forum to decide.

+1 to pull.

Sucker image. Yank it.

Pulled.

I vote no image. Unfortunately video game puzzles (especially if their point is to be complicated) would have to be explained before being understood, so it's only on the off chance that we find a clear, concise comic about the trope that we'll get an image.

I would like to suggest this famous example, although I'm not sure if it works an image. This is the "monkey wrench" from MI 2, as in you use a monkey as a wrench. Maybe if we add a second image of what happens after?

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edited 23rd Apr '13 1:13:16 PM by Spark9

It's not really clear what it shows. Pun puzzles are fun, though.

It's a guy holding a monkey by the tail. Nothing in that pic says "puzzle" to me at all.

Not seeing anything but a pile of pixels.

Maybe good to link in the example, but not as the page pic.

Yeah, like I said I didn't think it would work well. So anyway let's close this thread, we can always have a new discussion whenever somebody has a brilliant idea.

Why are people in a rush to pull pictures and then close the threads immediately? This is the second time I've seen that within the past 24 hours (the other being Age Lift). Whatever happened to just letting it sit around a month for people to come up with ideas?

edited 25th Apr '13 9:41:53 AM by ShadowHog

This thread has been open 12 days

What happened with the old method is that we got a forum with 600 stale threads that nobody looks at any more. That simply doesn't help.

I agree, there's no harm in letting this run its course.

That's a fair point, but we're back to a point where threads are starting to get clocked in batches so room will be made for threads, slowly but surely. I really liked seeing the list down in the mid-50s.

edited 25th Apr '13 9:54:48 AM by Willbyr

The old method also had a much, much longer length of time between the last activity in a topic and the topic getting clocked.

And it's really not as though Image Picking has the same problem TRS has, with an enormous backlog of threads demanding space.

Not exactly an image, but Logical Fallacies http://www.fallacyfiles.org/ has a nice word puzzle:

Will the puzzle you solve before you solve the puzzle you solve after you solve this one be harder than the puzzle you solve after you solved the puzzle you solved before you solved this one?

Yes, it's solvable. It's just deliberately confusing.

The one from Monkey Island could work, if the text explained it, like "See? It's a "monkey" wrench!"

I'm fine with that, actually. It certainly beats leaving the page imageless.