Anyone else genuinely dislikes most puzzles?

Actually I love puzzles and I solved quite a few already. It always depends on the puzzle. Some of them are coded and for me it's fun to find out how they were encoded. I really dislike brute force puzzles, like guess a number between 1-1000, or guess what's in my pocket or anything like that. As long as the puzzle could be solved by logic + google + common sense they are fine, when they are not they suck.

Mostly I dislike them and am not willing to spend the time... Someone did a HOG puzzle a while back though that took a while, but wasn't something you'd likely get stuck on for hours, that one I actually liked.

Then you get the ITH where you just can't get the one final question ever, and ended up wasting an hour or more with nothing to show for it. Mostly I pass.... Often you don't even know what you're trying to enter for, which is even worse when you finally beat it down only to see "exists in account" or something you know you won't like.

I'm not good at puzzles :( so i don't even try :/

The only time they really bother me is when the amount of effort is completely disproportionate to the game being given away and/or they don't mention the game before you start the puzzle.

A couple times I've found myself in the situation of "awesome, now I know the ins and outs of thermal dynamics and oh wait it was for a random bundled HOG."

I don't like 'internet puzzles'. You know, the ones where there's literally no instructions, and it turns out you have to find some f__kin' code in the hex value of a myspace photo from 12 years ago and enter it into a text box on a web page hidden behind seven layers of random passwords.

Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I do think puzzles without clear instructions/answers are bloody stupid.
"What, you can't figure it out? Just go to Zelgoobliggy's guide or w/e. The answer might have something to do with one of the dozen encryption methods listed there!"

I like mine :P

I dont like puzzles, but i dont dislike them, Im just too lazy to do them.

Well for sure some can be too much, but when they're well done I find them very entertaining!

In my opinion, puzzles are supposed to be

some kind of scrambled number/letter thing

Although personally I'm to dumb to solve anything even remotely challenging. But do you feel satisfied when you can just google the answer or right-click search image and forget what it was about 10 seconds later? Sure, I'm happy I got the link to giveaway, but I definetely don't feel proud.
And look at the others - ambidot even started drinking because he is not intelectually satisfied.
There should be more puzzles which you have to actually solve to keep your brain stimulated, otherwise it will dry out being around pumpkins like me.

For anyone interested in more complex puzzles, I may suggest checking out "11bx1371" puzzle on youtube (yes, it's a puzzle, and there's also subreddit for it).

I appreciate this thread greatly because it is my goal to figure out ways to make more enjoyable puzzles for all on the board! This is very valuable input!!

Keep brainstorming and sharing and I think we can all find some improvements for the future!

I really hate puzzles. I am lazy that is first why. Second is, that i often falls into language barrier, so sometimes i dont get, what that question means exactly. It is hard to explain, but every language or even country, have own habits and culture.

But i like programming puzzles :D

When I made a puzzle I was having trouble trying to balance not making the puzzle too easy that it's almost the same as just posting the link and then having it be too hard. Here it is, I decided not to outright mention the subject because that made it too easy, but it ended being a bit harder than intended as I was hoping the title of the puzzle would help, but there where too many Dr Becketts, at least doing a reverse image search to my avatar helped some people.

I hate puzzles. Never join them, never create them.

BUT there was a puzzle I enjoyed a lot, the one that gave you 2 pictures and you had to guess the name of the game. That was brilliant

Well... I'm also not the best puzzle solver but it's nice to see people that actually now how to crack other person mind. However it sounds. Yes. I know you like my Yes. Yes

This is more or less my feeling on puzzles

IQ tests are mostly about reasoning, it's made so not to take advantage of what you might have learned
SG puzzles require you to learn a skill, but hey with practice you will start completing a few of them

Personally i only go after movie related puzzles, even if their impossible for me, i usually have more fun with those

Some of them are fun, but some are annoying as fuck. If I don't solve it and get in the GA, I'm not heartbroken. I am perfectly capable of buying my own games.

To be honest I don't mind most of the programming-like puzzles, which involving translations of codes, but most importantly, finding them. Sometimes they are cleverly hidden, and it really feels good to find them.
I also enjoy google-able quizes, but it's the best if it's built around one thing, for example questions about a certain city. Random questions are indeed will be forgotten really soon, but these blocks can build a bigger picture about the topic of the puzzle, and can be really intresting - though it needs an intresting theme. Googling how many hamsterpower a newest racing car has, or something similar mumbojumbo is incredibly boring. But intresting topics, about cities, animals, customs of a country - these are great topics, because even a wikipedia page of it can be really intresting and educational, not in a forced way.
And my dirty pleasures - wordplays, jokes, puns and visual puns (with enough hints to help) - I also loved the few puzzles when the contestants has to identify games, movies, etc. It can be annoying if it's too niche, but a puzzle about popular games, series, movies can work really well with bigger groups of people.
And at the end, don't forget that these puzzles are done with the main purpose as serving as a gate towards giveaways, "being fun" is not their main priority. Fantastic puzzles can be done with even the old " hide the 5 characters" mode if you're instead of longing for learning, want to test your wits and how creative you can get within boundaries, or think outside of the box.
( There was once a puzzle in which we had to identify people from pictures - then we found that all of them has airports named after them, then we realized that on the map they are forming a triangle - I couldn't finish the puzzle at that point because I was totally stupid for english geometry, but it was one hell of a puzzle. Similarly, yet differently the Train of Madness puzzle wonderfully mixed the oldschool character hiding and outside of the box thinking - these were maybe the best puzzles I've been took part in)

I am no longer a try hard now, give up easily after a few tries. I like those that are not very easy but not difficult question answer type. Hate those codes cracking type. Whenever i see them, i skip them.

Lol all iq tests online are not different from "which pokemon are you?" What makes Sg puzzles unique is it has human factor a lot. Sometimes you have to think like puzzle maker to solve it. That's why it's hard not because you are dumb or anything. I like puzzles i solve them even though i won't enter most of giveaways. It's fun for me and sometimes you learn something from it.

I don't even try solving any of those puzzles where things are hidden and shit like that,it's just annoying. What I love is making puzzles (anime themed) which make people laugh (at least I hope they do) . I don't want to annoy people or make them search up a turtorial on cryptography to be able to solve it.

Yeah, I don't personally find them enjoyable. It's not because they're difficult, it's just because they're not an official giveaway method.

Well, the idea behind making puzzle giveaways in the first place is to make people spend some time solving the puzzle/riddle. this prevents uninterested parties (whatever their reasons may be) from entering the giveaway, thus increasing the odds for those who put in the effort. Not that I doubt anyone doesn't understand the principle, it's just that given this information making a puzzle where the answers can be easily searched defeats the purpose, why not just make an invite only giveaway and link it on the forums, right?

That being said, you can make a "puzzle" that's based on understanding a subject deeply without it being too easily googled, like a math puzzle or something that needs to be worked out rather than just a simple factoid, but they aren't always easy to make and with many such puzzles (like a math puzzle) it generally requires more in-depth knowledge of a topic that might exclude people from entering.

That being said, I too am not the biggest fan of puzzles at large, to make harder puzzles a lot of puzzle makers have to rely on being vague and ambiguous or use misdirection and trickery. This contrasts vastly with how puzzles are in most video games, where everything to you upfront and it's just a matter of putting all your knowledge and know-how together to solve the puzzles

disclaimer: I haven't really been active in the puzzle scene since before the rise of itstoohard, so the puzzle meta may have changed drastically since I've been active :p