8 Video Game Cheats You Were Forced To Use

So, as a British citizen, I absolutely adore the Professor Layton series, not only because the titles are utterly charming and present London life in possibly the only way that one could term is "adorable", but also because it's officially mandated by The Queen that we show respect to the puzzling professor.

However sometimes this top-hat fool can absolutely do one.

Across his many titles, Layton has thrown multiple curveballs at players design to make their heads spin, and there is no greater example, and indeed source of frustration, than the infamous "Royal Escape" puzzle in Professor Layton and The Curious Village.

This puzzle, which the Prof. hands out to you as his final test in the "Layton's Challenge" section, sees you trying to move blocks around in order to help a princess escape. However, it is, as puzzle experts would term, !*$% ridiculously difficult, so much so that a guide is pretty much essential to see this through to completion.

Hell even if you didn't use a guide and try to "micro-cheat" by using the games inbuilt hint system, the game flat out tells you that you're just going to have to solve this yourself! It doesn't help that this puzzle is based on an ancient Japanese sliding puzzle that's confounded people for centuries, so don't punish yourself too much if you did have to cheat to get through this brain-bending challenge.

Oh and final note, it takes 81 moves to solve. Have fun.