10 Video Game Puzzles You Couldn't Solve (Even With A Guide)

10. The Oculory - Skyrim

While playing the Skyrim DLC, Dragonborn, things probably grinded to a halt during the Revealing the Unseen quest. Near the end of this mission, you'll be led towards an observatory tower, which contains an Oculory sphere.

To obtain the Staff of Magnus, you need to to press three buttons to rotate the overhead mirrors at specific points. Because the focusing crystal is powered by heat, you need to keep blasting it with Flames and Frostbites spells until the light reflects off each mirror.

If that sounds complicated, it is! Unsurprisingly, many gamers will find this section so confounding, they won't attempt to solve it and instead, look up a walkthrough straight away.

Sadly, this will not aid you. If you follow an instruction video to the letter, you'll notice the light doesn't reflect the same way that's shown in the walkthrough.

So, why is this? Well, if you're watching a video guide of someone hitting the crystal with spells at Lv. 70, you can't do the same thing if your spells are at Lv 20.

Unless you can find a tutorial video where the player's spells are exactly the same level as you, you'll have to solve the puzzle yourself.