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KD
Since: May, 2009
13th May, 2021 12:32:43 PM
Generally Only Smart People May Pass. If there's no particular reason for such a puzzle to be in that particular location, it's also Solve the Soup Cans.
Instead of security measure that can only be disarmed by specify with key items, anyone with basic reading comprehension and puzzle solving skill can bypass it completely.
The security itself has to be designed as a puzzle, and not just the character thinking of real creative way to push that boulder over there to smash through this door.
Edited by Andermann