10 Video Game Puzzles NOBODY Figured Out

10. The Rubber Duck – The Longest Journey

Early on The Longest Journey, our protagonist, April, will spot a a key wedged on the subway track. Because you can’t obtain the key without the rails electrocuting you, you need to turn off the power.

In any other game that doesn't want the player to lose the will to live, you would flip a switch to deactivate all electronics, hop onto the rails, and swipe the key.

But in The Longest Journey, there's over a dozen steps to perform this single action. You need to (takes deep breath) go to your apartment and use the gold ring that your dad gave you to loosen the clamp off a water pressure system. (If that sounds convoluted, that's the first phase.) Then, you have to toss breadcrumbs at a rubber ducky outside, which attracts a seagull. By nibbling on the bread, the bird will accidentally puncture the toy. (Before you ask, yes, this is part of the same puzzle.)

After that, grab a clothesline, go downstairs, pick the ducky up, tie it to the clamp, reinflate it, and then use it to collect the key.

If you know what you're doing, this section should only take ten minutes. But no one on their first playthrough will notice the rubber ducky and think, "Well, I obviously have to chuck bread at this thing to retrieve the key at the subway." When you phrase it like that, you can see how surreal the whole situation is.