（Just help me to think about it）
- Secret Room Puzzle
- Combination lock
- Logical reasoning
- Symbol decoding
- Morse Code
- Maze escape
- Serial letters
- Flashback story
- Optical illusion
- Tibetan Head poetry
- Treasure Map
- Wordplay
- Dream interpretation
- Family tree
- Map Puzzles
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Mirror puzzle
- Metaphor Puzzle
- Time Puzzles
- Virtual puzzles
- Musical puzzles
- Chemical puzzles
- Mathematical puzzles
So on…
The structure among various puzzles can be: nested dolls, linear, jumping, collaborative, etc. It needs to be adjusted based on the game progress and test data to control the difficulty and so on.
The design of puzzles also needs to be in line with the game plot or theme and cannot be a collection of meaningless mini-games.
The difficulty of puzzle games requires extensive testing, and player classification should be done well because the thinking patterns of different types of players (age, gender, etc.) vary greatly.
Record the points where most target players get stuck and continuously optimize the puzzles and hints, designing corresponding difficulty levels. Sometimes, a puzzle game is a process of conveying new ideas, and it is necessary to guide players to gradually shift to the game’s own puzzle-solving methods or thinking patterns. For example, the Rust Lake series becomes smoother as you play.
Good guidance can make puzzle-solving methods that do not conform to mainstream market cognition become easy to accept and novel. (Extremely difficult) Anti-cheating and anti-exploitation: Even if the correct answer is exhausted before finding enough clues, it cannot be triggered (depending on the situation). Easter eggs (obscure plots, high-difficulty reasoning, kind warnings) can be set.
As a label that can be attached to a game, the concept of puzzle-solving varies greatly among different major categories of games. 2D, 3D, the game’s physics system, and enemies can all be utilized.
Seeking the truth, exploring the unknown, the puzzle has always been there, everything can be a puzzle, as long as it attracts someone to explore, this process can be called a puzzle, the meaning of life, Goldbach conjecture, the mystery of existence…
Even in the dark, players may find their own puzzles, randomized puzzle games