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Only Smart People May Pass

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Only Smart People May Pass	comment	This refers to any barrier that requires the heroes to solve some kind of puzzle, Riddle or test of skill in order to pass. It is often given by Threshold Guardians (especially if the guardian in question is a Riddling Sphinx). You must be able to work it out based on the clues you are given on the spot. It's often a defense against smart people who want to take whatever is being guarded like a Treasure Room. It can also be a Secret Handshake of sorts to only allow smart people inside like Mensa. If you must come to it with some knowledge, it's Only the Knowledgable May Pass. Sometimes if those who tried to deploy that trope were clumsy, they gave you enough clues to make it this, and conversely, if the answer to this is too weird or insane, you may really need to know it in advance. The architect must have deemed this a better barrier than, say, a lock and key carried on someone's person instead of being in a chest elsewhere in the building. After all, keys can be stolen but knowledge is intangible. Unfortunately, this will not stop people who are evil in addition to smart or at least smart enough to trick the heroes into solving the puzzle for them. See Block Puzzle, the various Stock Puzzles and Stock Video Game Puzzles, Riddle Me This, the Knights and Knaves puzzle and Solve the Soup Cans for examples of this. Note that the puzzle itself is often not terribly difficult; after all, the viewers have to be able to follow it (or solve it themselves, in a videogame). This often leads to Fridge Logic about why it wasn't solved earlier or what the point of such a simple puzzle really was. Expect even the least smart of protagonists to be able to find a way to solve what was supposed to be an ingenious puzzle. This trope dates back to at least the Sphinx in Greek Mythology, making it Older Than Feudalism. Compare Only the Worthy May Pass and These Questions Three...; see also see First-Contact Math; and contrast Only Idiots May Pass. Subverted in Doom as Test Prize, where one of these turns out to be a way to dispose of people who are a bit too clever. As mentioned above, Riddling Sphinx is particular form of this. Life-or-Death Question may overlap with this, although in those cases, it's more like only the smart survive.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_11366f17	comment	Betrayal at Krondor has a great many chests called "Wordlocks" that are essentially combination locks with letters instead of numbers, and they have riddles on them. The answer to the riddle is the combination, though one sidequest-relevant chest follows another trope.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_13665790	comment	Similar to the Lord of the Rings subversion, the plot of Thud! hinges on a magic cube that plays a recording when an unknown password is spoken aloud, that a Mad Artist who thought he was a chicken accidentally activated. The password turns out to be "Awk", which is Dwarvish for "Speak".
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_13d3a04	comment	In Conquests of Camelot, there were several Copy Protection-type puzzles which required not only having the manual but correctly interpreting it as well. One part early in the game played this more straight, featuring a magic barrier that could be passed only after talking to some stones and solving the riddles they gave you.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_1484a16e	comment	In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Dumbledore banks on these to hinder Voldemort from getting to the Philosopher's Stone. Most of the puzzles placed to guard the Stone aren't truly puzzles (rather than leave a spell to ask you how to defeat Devil's Snare, Dumbledore let Professor Sprout decide that it would be much more effective to just set the plant on anyone who came through); notably, the exception is Snape's logic puzzle with the potions: "Most wizards haven't got an ounce of logic; they'd never get out alive." When Harry reaches the final room he realizes this is a Subverted Trope. It's made clear that Voldemort could never have retrieved the Philosopher's Stone from the Mirror of Erised, no matter how smart or clever he was in bypassing the other defenses. Only someone who didn't want to use it would be capable of doing so.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side shows a math phobic's nightmare as being required to solve a Train Problem to get into Heaven.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_15a26aad	comment	In The Elder Scrolls: Arena, all the dungeons with pieces of the Staff of Chaos (and clues to said pieces) have doors and gates that are locked away with riddles. For example, one of Labyrinthian's riddles is "Two bodies have I, / Though both joined in one. / The more still I stand, / The quicker I run...",note The answer is an hourglass while Halls of Colossus has one where you convert letters into numbers to figure out someone's age.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	The Might and Magic series had third game Isles of Terra, which loved riddles. Statues, zombies, and random folks will ask riddles and will reward the player with story tidbits, such as how to complete certain quests (Princess Trueberry has the Golden Alicorn) or avoid pitfalls (If you take a Pearl of Youth and Beauty to the Pirate Queen, she won't steal the party gold). The Lords of Arachnoid Cavern are the largest example: Lord Might tells the party to start with his number, and then go in an order that Lord Word might find agreeable, which implies going alphabetically)
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_1adee40d	comment	In The World Ends with You, on the 4th day of the third week, you are boxed off by invisible walls and to open up these walls, you need to open up special boxes, which won't open unless you solve puzzles involving defeating specific Noise symbols. Additionally, to obtain the Secret Reports, you are required to get hidden items as part of your objectives, and are given cryptic hints as to where to find them, such as "Meet up with the secret" (examine the Statue of Hachikō) and "SHOWN A DREAM" (anagram of "Shadow Ramen," a restaurant where you will find one of the hidden items). Also, some of the clues as to the daily objectives (mostly in week 2) are rather cryptic. Mind you, the characters manage to work them out, saving the player from the extra thought in those cases, at least.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_1b5404a1	comment	In Star Trek: Typhon Pact (part of the Star Trek Novel 'Verse), the home and office of the Tzenkethi Coalition's Autarch is inside a building with a flexible and highly changable design. To access the house requires contemplation of mathematical principles and aesthetics, to puzzle out the likely position of concealed openings. Agents of the Autarch are therefore tested every time they report to the building, and must demonstrate their worth by finding a way inside.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: One of the tests that must be passed to enter the Cave of Yffi (in "The Strombreaker Saga") is a "test of intelligence" that takes the form of a somewhat silly riddle. The heroes make it past by arguing their different answers were all as good as the "right" one. The gatekeeper then tries to make the riddle so specific that it can only be answered the one way ("a bat with lesions"). The villain nevertheless manages to answer it with "a nun with a spear through her head".
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_1ef72f5d	comment	Death Bell: The killer's questions are incredibly complicated, and everytime the protagonists fail to solve one, another student dies.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_21edf764	comment	In Dishonored 2, the lock on Aramis Stilton's manor is designed by Kirin Jindosh, and is so fiendishly complex that nobody has been able to crack it - it even indirectly led to one character's mutilation. When you get there to try yourself, it's...an incredibly simple logic puzzle of the kind found in brainteaser and Crossword Puzzle books, and you only have to solve half of it anyway. Apparently nobody in the entire Empire except the protagonist is smart enough to go through a simple process of elimination, which honestly explains a lot about the setting.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_221b0033	comment	All That Glitters (Othellia): The route to a hidden cave that Hans claims contains a powerful magic artifact is recorded through a series of riddles.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: "Death House" involves an abandoned penthouse full of deadly booby traps. In order to avoid them while searching for a trapped victim, the team has to follow clues throughout the apartment to first locate, then solve, two hidden riddles.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_22cf7df9	comment	The tunnel leading to One-Eyed Willy's ship in The Goonies is filled with many booby-traps, such as the most memorable musical riddle. It makes sense since, during Willy's time, only people with a noble/high-born education would be able to read ''sheet music'. Even most musicians would only know how to play instruments, not read standardized notation.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall series has many of these. The first book, for instance, has a series of riddles left by Martin the Warrior that lead to the location of his legendary sword.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_22e7c6e9	comment	Probe's "Computer Logic": When Mickey is trying to get into Austin's private workspace, the electronic lock issues a Limerick challenge that appears to be testing the visitor's intelligence but is actually designed to be impossible to solve. There's a response that will unlock the door, but its exact form can't be arrived at by logic or any other systematic process. Mickey gets through by sheer luck; confronted with a puzzle she barely understands and has no idea how to solve, she mutters a dejected remark—which happens to be the required pass phrase.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_23e1c5d9	comment	Used over and over again in Tales of Eternia, the first Tales game with the bright, involved, and unique sort of puzzles that also contributed to Tales of Symphonia being the hit it was. Then, without warning, subverted at the beginning of Volt's ruins: The Smart Guy Keele has been left behind, so while the rest of your party is busy scratching their heads and staring at the obtuse riddle on the front gate, Max walks up to the door and body-slams it down. The rest of the dungeon, of course, is full of puzzles, but damn if the scene wasn't hilarious.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars: In Guild Wars: Nightfall, the Dasha Vestibule mission has a room with six pedestals with composite numbers and four with primes. The player must chose two composite numbers such that all four primes are factors of one of the chosen numbers. Used as a joke in the "Elusive Golemancer" mission in Guild Wars: Eye of the North. "We designed the traps to keep less intelligent creatures out. We Asura have no problems with them. You, um, you should be fine. Yeah. You'll be just fine."
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_2a15962e	comment	Beelzebub: A demon sets up a magical quiz show for the main characters. Since they're all complete morons, this horrifies them far more than the world-ending threats they had been facing up to that point.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_2a786b7f	comment	Darklands: The dwarf logic puzzles. (With one exception, which due to writer error is a Guide Dang It!.)
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_2acb12c5	comment	In X3: Terran Conflict, the New Home plot involves a three-part Hacking Minigame. You have to break a four-digit code, then solve a Sudoku. The third part is inputting a code you put together from clues throughout the plot.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_30445b95	comment	Dr. Brain is built on this, with plenty of puzzles, labyrinths and other challenges. However, the doctor isn't trying to keep you out, just test you to see if you're good enough to become his assistant.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_306233e6	comment	In Summer Wars, Kenji solves a 2056 Bit encryption not only on paper but in his head in under a minute to bypass lock-outs and other barriers put in his path by Love Machine.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_31677f1c	comment	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): In "The Secret of Grayskull", Castle Grayskull will let in anyone who answers a riddle. When Skeletor and his minions tried to gain entry, it asked, "What goes through a door, but never enters or exits the castle?" The bad guys couldn't figure it out, so they asked a brainwashed Orko whom they had captured, who answered a keyhole. Likely due to the Sorceress realizing what a security risk it is, Grayskull doesn't ask riddles in future episodes.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_32483a45	comment	The sphinx guarding Giants Orbiting in MirrorMask refuses to let Helena and Valentine through without answering riddles. However, as this is by Neil Gaiman, Helena's answer to the "4 legs in the morning, 2 legs in the afternoon, 3 in the evening" riddle was one of the performing dogs at her parents' circus, who walked around on his back legs as part of the afternoon show and hurt his paw partway through. Her counter-riddle was, "What's green, hangs on the wall, and whistles?" Answer: A herring. (That's an old Yiddish joke.)
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_3499459d	comment	This is the central premise behind the gameplay of Another Code: For some unfathomable reason, the designers of the mansion on Blood Edward Island thought that it would be more efficient to use logic puzzles instead of keys or handles.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_359666b7	comment	Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals: Every floor of every dungeon, cave, castle, tower or mansion is littered with puzzles of all sorts that you must complete to open doors. It gets so extreme that one can reasonably argue that Lufia II is a puzzle game with a large story and RPG-elements in it. There is also a secret room in one of the later dungeons that has "the hardest puzzle in the world" which involves sliding platforms around and around for about 20-ish rounds, until you have the platform with the treasure chests filled with neat loot in front of you.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_37419634	comment	Discworld Noir looks like it's headed for this when an ancient guardian wants to ask you a riddle to see if you are worthy to receive the MacGuffin. Then come the subversions, first by the guardian who happened to forget the riddle during his 400-year-wait (but still insists to only hand the item to those who answer it) and then by Lewton who points out that someone of the unworthy faction would just hack the weaponless guardian to pieces. As he's in somewhat of a hurry, he gives the guardian the option to hand over the McGuffin — or he'll just pretend to be unworthy enough... The guardian relents.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_37b56f7	comment	Baldur's Gate II has several such moments. The oddest riddle is one that makes sense as game dialogue but would be quite horrible if someone came to you and spoke it like this: The prince is 30, the princess is 40. Any age with the same ratio will also do.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_393b2bdf	comment	All over the place in Machinarium; it seems that every other mechanism or locked door in the city is protected with one or another classic logic puzzle.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Dumbledore banks on these to hinder Voldemort from getting to the Philosopher's Stone. Most of the puzzles placed to guard the Stone aren't truly puzzles (rather than leave a spell to ask you how to defeat Devil's Snare, Dumbledore let Professor Sprout decide that it would be much more effective to just set the plant on anyone who came through); notably, the exception is Snape's logic puzzle with the potions: "Most wizards haven't got an ounce of logic; they'd never get out alive." When Harry reaches the final room he realizes this is a Subverted Trope. It's made clear that Voldemort could never have retrieved the Philosopher's Stone from the Mirror of Erised, no matter how smart or clever he was in bypassing the other defenses. Only someone who didn't want to use it would be capable of doing so. To gain entry to the living quarters of the House of Ravenclaw, one must answer a intellectual riddle. This is designed to help the Ravenclaws increase their intellectual capacity, so it's literally "only smart people may pass". It could even be intentional: perhaps Rowena considered all smart people honorary Ravenclaws? The Pottermore welcome message for Ravenclaw goes even further in this direction. It states that "it's not unusual" to see twenty or more Ravenclaw students trying to solve the day's riddle together, and that it's a great way for first years to learn from older students. It also says that Ravenclaws "learn quickly". In the fourth book Harry stumbles on a sphinx in the labyrinth and has to solve its riddle.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_3c294634	comment	In Anachronox, to board the shuttle to Sunder (a Planet of Hats populated by scientists), the heroes must pass the Brain Bouncer, who demands explanations of complex scientific theories to ensure that the hopeful passenger really is a scientist of high caliber. This is then parodied when your helpful robotic buddy downloads the entire galactic scientific database into his memory, and you have to pretend to speak a language that the bouncer doesn't, so your robo-buddy can helpfully "translate" for you. Of course, there are two additional (humorous) swerves: the bouncer speaks all known languages (forcing you to "invent" a language), and at one point, after provided an answer that can be as short as three sounds and as long a twelve sounds, your robo-buddy prattles on for long enough that the scene fades out.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_3c38c613	comment	Raymond Smullyan also wrote What is the Name of This Book?, which had a chapter where Portia from The Merchant of Venice wants the gold, silver, and lead caskets to test her suitor's intelligence instead of his virtue so she has each casket inscribed with a true/false statement that makes it possible to logically deduce which casket has her portrait. Her daughter and granddaughter do similar tests, but a third descendant of hers in the far modern-day future subverts this by giving her suitor what look like logical tests identical to her ancestors' but are actually impossible to logically solve — she had actually decided long beforehand that she wanted to marry said suitor but, being a mischievous sort, wanted to have a little bit of fun with him first.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_3f44e3d7	comment	Subverted in Princess Tutu. After a mysterious spirit kidnaps Mytho, Ahiru races to find him—and is asked riddles along the way. Ahiru, being an Idiot Hero, gets them all wrong, but it turns out that the voice wasn't testing her, but telling her who it was—a lamp.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_3f83010a	comment	Shining the Holy Ark has a puzzle involving weights and scales before you can enter the dungeon proper. Also it has the infamous stone puzzle.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_4037825e	comment	Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao is fond of word games, including leaving instructions in the form of incredibly involved plays on Chinese characters. The only problem was that the guy who solved them, Yang Xiu, made Cao nervous, both for his intelligence and for supporting one of Cao's younger sons rather than Cao's chosen heir. Cao Cao would have Yang Xiu executed when he interpreted one of Cao Cao's signal phrases (chicken neck) as a sign that Cao was preparing for retreat. It should be noted that Cao really was planning a retreat, but canceled the retreat so he could have an excuse to do away with Yang.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_412c21da	comment	Escape Room (2017): The puzzles in the escape room are fiendishly complex, with very little provided in the way of clues for solving them. One of the easier ones involved placing a series of magnets in the correct positions to solve the Riddle of the Sphinx.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_45599333	comment	Tower of God Hansung Yu's door test on the second floor — one of the tests required to advance up the Tower — is an ironic example, because while it can be solved by being smart, it's almost easier by being stupid. The test is ostensibly "Find the right door within ten minutes," and there seem to be no hints. But the implicit hints are all about the time — do it within five minutes — and the real answer is to open any door within five minutes. Thus, overthinking can be much more dangerous than being impatient or impulsive (or even delusional, as with the guy who supposedly uses divination to solve it). Whether Hansung actually thinks this is a reasonable test of determination or whatever like he explains it, or he's just being a sadist with layers of hidden agendas as usual, is anyone's guess. On the Hell Train, one test is to solve a simple numerical riddle to open a door. A group of deadly high-level characters are stumped by this because it's not their kind of thing, but they have a Navigator with them who can solve anything by precognition, although she probably could have solved this one by reasoning too.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld Terry Pratchett has a lot of fun with this trope in Pyramids. Pteppic meets the sphinx of Greek Mythology — and gets into a three-page discussion about how the classic riddle ("What is it that walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon and on three in the evening? — A man") doesn't make a lot of sense. The final version: "What is it that, metaphorically speaking, walks on four legs for about twenty minutes just after midnight, on two legs for most of the day (barring accidents) until at least suppertime, after which it continues to walk on two legs or with any prosthetic aids of its choice?" Similar to the Lord of the Rings subversion, the plot of Thud! hinges on a magic cube that plays a recording when an unknown password is spoken aloud, that a Mad Artist who thought he was a chicken accidentally activated. The password turns out to be "Awk", which is Dwarvish for "Speak".
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_49a88442	comment	An alliance raid boss in Final Fantasy XIV has a phase where it reduces everyone's HP to the single digits and builds up an attack that will kill you unless you match your altered max HP in multiples of X with X being whatever number the boss mentions. Four circular pads on the floor boosts your HP by 1 to 4 to help you solve the math problem. The real difficulty comes in later where the boss does the same gimmick again, but replaces multiplication with having you match your HP to prime numbers.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5163b4d8	comment	In The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles, the Toronto Argonauts find an empty aircraft carrier waiting for them. The only instructions on how to operate the ship are a plaque in the bridge with a strange shape and numbers inside it. Tim Tebow immediately recognizes the plaque as a cryptic reference to a specific football game: November 13, 2011, Denver Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs. Tebow was the Broncos' quarterback for that game, and he realizes this is a clue to use several stats from the game to determine how to start the ship's engine and set the bearings.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_518b056d	comment	Dan Brown attempts this in The Da Vinci Code. There are such gems as the "strange script" of an unrecognised language that a symbologist, the granddaughter of a da Vinci expert and another da Vinci expert spend about five pages puzzling over. Two pages into this sequence, there's a copy of it printed — it's in da Vinci's trademark mirror writing.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5307b01d	comment	Penny Arcade parodies it, suggesting it's a "Logic Opera": "every person you meet breaks into "puzzle" the way that Viking ladies tend to break into song, out of nowhere." The first game in the series, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, actually turns out to have invoked the trope: a guy deliberately set up all the puzzles to test the intelligence of those seeking his treasure.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, the Order encounters the classic "one guard always lies, one guard always tells the truth" puzzle on the way to the Oracle of the Sunken Valley in this strip. Haley proves how smart she is by shooting one of the guards in the foot, and determining their nature by their reactions. It's outright defied when Haley returns to the Sunken Valley: the guards seem to remember her, while she doesn't remember them (due to the memory charm put there by the Oracle).
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: why does a scientific lab require you to manipulate chess pieces to open a locked door? No one knows. The series handwaves it by saying that Spencer, the man who designed the mansion, was insane and paranoid.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_594453e2	comment	This happens on Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, when Fantasy Man and Chief Woolabum want to cross the river but are stopped by a schizophrenic flag named Bobbatron, who demands the answer to a mind-bogglingly bizarre riddle: "If it takes a year to drink a horse, how long does a Spanish priest have to cry for, when rolling up a hill against a north-facing breeze... bearing in mind that it's winter and dark, and the priest is covered in ball bearings and his own shit?" Naturally they Take a Third Option, pushing Bobbatron into the river and crossing the bridge as if nothing had happened.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5c622d7f	comment	Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening has the aptly-named Trial of Wisdom with multiple doors that are each marked with a different number of lights. To proceed, they have to be entered in a certain order, and your only clue to figuring that out is a reference to the Riddle of the Sphinx. Easy enough to solve for those familiar with it, and utterly baffling for anyone who's not. However, this section can be optional if you only wish to proceed to the next area (as only two out of three Trials must be passed to break the rubble blocking the gate), but it's mandatory only if you wish to acquire the Artemis weapon.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5dbbf8fb	comment	The Crown of All Things in The Last Watch was sealed in a most ingenious manner, but Merlin thoughtfully left a rather clever riddle behind. This was justified in that providing a hint was part of Merlin's idea of fair play, and it later turned out he had a very good reason to make it possible for someone intelligent to get their hands on it.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted In the Time of Tumult the players have to select the wrong answer in a classic Knights and Knaves puzzle. This is fair since the PCs are navigating a maze specifically designed to kill anyone but the creators and they know it. Only Really Smart People may pass. Exalted later plays it straight and justifies it in Under the Rose, which has a section of puzzle-based deathtraps designed by Autochthon, the Great Maker. A side-note mentions that as part of his inhuman mindset, Autochthon is physically unable to design any form of defenses without including puzzle-based deathtraps.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5f6f0132	comment	Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories has a minor boss in the Inevitable Tournament tries to challenge the heroes with the mother of all geo puzzles, causing the page quote from Tink in regards to Idiot Hero Adell. Adell takes one glance at the puzzle and states its correct solution without missing a beat, freaking out the puzzle creator and the rest of the heroes. Of course, to the player the real puzzle is getting to the solution that Adell pointed out. It's at the end of a maze of No Entry panels guarded by monsters. Although if you have enough range on your spells (which depends on how many times you've cast it before) you can hit it from the starting position.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_5fa33285	comment	In Labyrinth, Sarah solves a classic Knights and Knaves puzzle. She can only ask a single question to one of two characters, one of whom always lies and the other tells the truth. She asks one what the other would say and gets a reliably false answer - too bad she thinks the reverse.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_6053d9f9	comment	Silent Hill: The franchise has a lot of this, but Silent Hill 3 stretches it into true absurdity with a puzzle requiring an astoundingly thorough knowledge of the works of Shakespeare to pass (on Hard mode). Of course, it's Silent Hill we're talking about here — making sense is purely optional and any puzzle that can be explained with sufficiently elaborate Epileptic Trees (like, say, a 20 page forum debate between fans who have memorized the game) is obviously logically sound by the laws of the place. There's also quite a few verbal puzzles in the game that are obscenely simple if you're familiar with the source. The source may be a common Japanese nursery rhyme that makes it impossible for American audiences to solve without some sort of reference, or aspects of American culture that seem blatantly obvious to us but are downright Insane Troll Logic to the original Japanese audience. Which, given the whole confusing nature of the series, may be entirely intentional.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: The Knights and Knaves puzzle is played for laughs in this strip. Conversed in this installment, where it's noted that characters in stories often use riddles to communicate key messages.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse The ability to identify the first six digits of pi and the radius of a circle guarded an Asgard communication device that would have allowed the populace of a world to speak with their "god" and learn all kinds of things about the Universe in Stargate SG-1. It's justified in that Thor didn't want to speak directly with a society until they achieved some kind of scientific knowledge. He deduced that if they were smart enough to understand the concept of pi, they could handle learning their "god" was actually a Sufficiently Advanced Alien (albeit one who genuinely cared for them and acted as a protector). If they could not, then You Are Not Ready...yet. In "The Tomb", a ruined temple to the Goa'uld Marduk was blocked by a great stone door inscribed with the Babylonian creation myth. Opening the door required pressing the sections of the text that were incorrect, things that in theory only the priests of Marduk would know. Fortunately Daniel Jackson has studied Babylonian mythology and reads the language. The Ancients, or at least Merlin, were also fond of using these to guard superweapons. The Dakara Superweapon, built by The Ancients, capable of wiping out all life in the galaxy, requires understanding of Ancient language. Failing that, using the notes of someone who does will also do. In "Avalon", Daniel has to solve a riddle to figure out which pot contains a gold coin and Mitchell gets stuck trying to translate an Ancient language. During the quest to find the Sangraal, The Team had to use four virtues to reach the Sangraal and one of them was wisdom. Stargate Atlantis had such puzzles, like finding the ZPM by using the numbers 1-9 to make a Magic Square Puzzle, part by desperation, part by realizing the significance of the number 15.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_61429058	comment	Brain Lord is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, and EVERY puzzle that doesn't involve 'kill all enemies in the room' will genuinely test your reasoning ability....or patience, if you go for trial and error.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_6209d3ce	comment	Trauma Center: New Blood: to escape a pit filling with water, the two doctors and nurse that have refused to help the Big Bad have to solve a complicated puzzle. To do so they have to "connect the four friends," meaning they connect the pegs that match in color to each other. It's surprisingly difficult, which is explained by the puzzle being popular among college students and the like. If you don't solve in time, they all drown.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: At one point, the character must complete a relatively easy puzzle using party members to stand on plates to create a bridge to reach the ashes of the prophet Andraste. If Alistair is in your party, he'll comment on this: Leliana also jokes about how you may have to "all join hands and sing a happy song to get across." The quest also has a room full of spirits who give you riddles and attack you if you answer incorrectly. Some of them will let you off if you admit you can't answer - emphasis on some. The Mage origin story has a sloth demon that you can either fight, or correctly answer his riddles.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_62a7de21	comment	Subverted in Azumanga Daioh when Tomo is asking complicated puzzles requiring lateral thinking. Class genius Chiyo is stumped by them, but class space cadet Osaka answers them all without any hesitation.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_65790110	comment	The first Pajama Sam game, No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside, had the "Brain Tickler," a brief quiz show narrated by two talking doors, Wink and Blink, inside Darkness's house. To progress, Sam has to answer one question correctly in four different quiz categories. Most of the questions are simple enough for the game's target audience of young children, ranging from basic math to geography. The fourth category, however will always be 'The Land of Darkness,' and the question asked will be about a certain location the player may or may not have visited yet (for example, it may ask what the reading on the water meter is in the mines near Darkness's house), and if they haven't, all the possible answers are incorrect until the player explores those areas.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_68ff28ca	comment	The franchise has a lot of this, but Silent Hill 3 stretches it into true absurdity with a puzzle requiring an astoundingly thorough knowledge of the works of Shakespeare to pass (on Hard mode). Of course, it's Silent Hill we're talking about here — making sense is purely optional and any puzzle that can be explained with sufficiently elaborate Epileptic Trees (like, say, a 20 page forum debate between fans who have memorized the game) is obviously logically sound by the laws of the place.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3 a sidequest in what's left of the Smithsonian requires you to answer trivia questions on American history to open a safe containing some loot. Another unmarked sidequest requires you to pick out prime numbers from lists to spawn a unique assault rifle.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_6f70ad52	comment	Shows up in the mad Finster's mind in Wasteland; you do have to get these right. Note that this guy's not exactly sane, and the fact that you're wandering in his brain with laser machine guns trying to kill him isn't helping his mental state much.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7288f27	comment	In Cultist Simulator, in order to pass through the Stag Door in the Mansus, the protagonist will have to answer its riddle.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7579423f	comment	Banjo-Kazooie's final level is a board game asking questions about various events in the game as well as matching sound effects and jingles to what they mean.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_76885dcf	comment	The first episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, "The Tale of the Phantom Cab": The woods are haunted by the ghosts of lost hikers and campers who found Dr. Vink's cottage. He would send them to board the Phantom Cab and die in a replica of the same crash that killed the driver. Why? Because none of them (until the two boys in the tale) could answer his riddle: "What has no weight? Can be seen with the naked eye? And if you put it in a barrel, it will make the barrel lighter?" A hole. Other common entities that satisfy this description: fire, "A flashlight beam."
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7a0fa029	comment	Zatch Bell!: The show spoofs this with Poosophagus (Unko Tin Tin). He guards Faudo's esophagus and threatens to drop the whole party in stomach acid if they don't all get a question right. Fortunately, most of his questions are really easy, when he remembers to ask one at all. He only asks two hard ones: 829,735 Ã— 962,527 = ?. Posed to Kiyomaro, a supergenius who calculates the answer in his head. ("It's 797,812,605,345!") Prove Fermat's Last Theorem. A question that would be impossible for almost anyone on the planet, this was posed to Umagon, who can't even speak. Kiyomaro forces Poosophagus to give Umagon an easier question, a more conventional riddle. Mainly, because Poosophagus didn't know the answer himself.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7c038c18	comment	Played with in Phineas and Ferb Arthurian Legend-slash-The Princess Bride-slash-The Lord of the Rings episode "Excaliferb" has Professor Poofenplotz as a bridge-guarding troll who demands that the answers to three questions must be given correctly in haiku form in order to pass. Baljeetolas notices that the creek is shallow, and the questers go around the bridge, although Baljeetolas gives the correct answer after crossing the creek. Just for the hell of it. Later in the episode, Candavere approaches the bridge having transformed into a uniwhalescorpiopegasquidicorn... girl. Poofenplotz lets her pass out of fear.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7c31fdd7	comment	In Valkyrie Profile there is an Egyptian-themed pyramid dungeon, in which the Sphinx presents the famous riddle to Lady Valkyrie. Her reply is simply "..." and she is allowed to pass.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: In the early games, this is character-based instead of player based, with Intelligence attribute checks, or various skill checks. Ironically, some story quests are actually much easier if your character is extremely stupid since the quest givers will realize that you are to too dumb to complete them and will do it themselves. In Fallout 3 a sidequest in what's left of the Smithsonian requires you to answer trivia questions on American history to open a safe containing some loot. Another unmarked sidequest requires you to pick out prime numbers from lists to spawn a unique assault rifle.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7fc78282	comment	The Fellowship of the Ring subverts this with the gates of Moria; what's taken to be a riddle is just a literal instruction, although knowledge of Elven script is required to know that there is a password at all. You could accidentally open it by reading the untranslated inscription out loud.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_7fcddc41	comment	The Journeyman Project has one scene where a murderous robot is launching nuclear missiles and you have to deactivate the silos before said missiles launch. To do so, you have to navigate a holographic globe of the world and find the city and country of origin that the computer tells you about. It's effectively a simple geography check, but woe to any kid back then that didn't know their geography or lacked an actual map of the world to cross reference.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_80979f9d	comment	Subverted in Double the Fist. The Womp has to get past a pair of "one always lies and the other tells the truth" guardians, but he's Too Dumb to Live and when the increasingly frustrated guards try to explain how the puzzle works the liar accidentally tells the truth, causing his head to explode.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_80efac97	comment	In How Kazir Won His Wife, a king sets his daughter's suitor Kazir puzzles in order to assess his intellect. If Kazir fails, the king will not permit his daughter to marry Kazir.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_819853fe	comment	Final Fantasy XIII-2 has the temporal rifts, which offer you one of three puzzles; Tile Trial, Crystal Bonds, or the Hands of Time. Tile Trial is fairly painless, but the harder Crystal Bonds tend to demand very quick reflexes, memorization, and a bit of luck. As for Hands of Time, it's the only one that isn't mandatory to complete the game, and when you attempt one, you'll see why. Etro help you if you decide to go for 100% Completion, because you have to solve several of them, often going up to thirteen numbers.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_823762be	comment	Various doors in Level 2a of An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire are also impassible unless you answer a riddle. Thankfully, there's also a copy of The Kendhall Book of Riddles in the study, which has answers to all of them.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_82439e64	comment	Parodied again in The Office (US), where Dwight keeps asking Ryan one logic riddle after the other. Ryan answers them so quickly that Dwight barely has the time to say the first few words before he gives the correct answer.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_82d77bcb	comment	Uninvited: The Quest for the Red Diamond: The Mall Demon asks you a question regarding intermediate-level mathematics that you have to answer to live.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_8546b09c	comment	Dr. Nigiri sets one of these as final barrier on his plan to takeover the console in the Pixelface episode "The Problems of Dr. Nigiri". It falls to Sgt. Riley — as the only one not brainwashed — to attempt to solve it.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI had a very interesting minigame built into the plot, wherein the team has to sit down for dinner with Emperor Gestahl and make small-talk. Several questions are asked of the player, for toasts and such, most of which offer three possible answers: sucking-up, magnanimous, and vindictive. He also answers questions about some plot-points, and then quizzes on which one was asked first. The game goes on through the dinner no matter what; since it's not possible to "lose", it's not exactly a critical puzzle, but "winning" nets the player lots of nice rewards. The puzzle is figuring out the right answers - each has a score attached to it, with the rewards based on the total earned. As the Emperor is trying to make amends for his past actions, you shouldn't pick the options that make light of his apologies or, you know, offend the host himself. As the other Returners are present, you shouldn't want to offend them either by sucking up too hard for their previous enemy, which is why the middle-of-the-road answers are best.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_86814e7d	comment	In Final Fantasy X-2, there's a minigame called "Sphere Break". This game revolves around using coins to come up with various combinations of numbers with multiplication and addition. Finding the coins in the game proper is fairly easy, as you just wander around playing the desert minigame until you find the coins you need. The Sphere Break game itself requires quick mental math, something that no amount of grinding or walkthroughs will ever prepare you for. And to add insult to injury, some of the game's best Accessories, as well as a few Garment Grids and the Lady Luck Dressphere, can only be won by playing and/or winning Sphere Break matches, not to mention that the minigame itself can be abused for item farming.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_88fc98ed	comment	In War and Peas, a knight saves a girl from multivariable calculus lessons, then... see the page image.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos This happens twice in A Mage's Power: When Eric tries to enter the Temple of Zaticana, his path is blocked by the temple's guards. They declare that "No earthbound mortal may cross this temple threshold." Eric quickly figures out that instead of forbidding mortals to enter the temple, the statement means they want him to jump across, i.e. prove he is not "earth bound". Eric's trial in Kyraa to earn Dengel's power involves knowledge from runes to dragon customs to clever use of magic. The entrance to the Black Cloak's hideout is carefully hidden and guarded. To enter without setting off alarms, Eric has to use several spells in combination In Looming Shadow, Eric has to pass several tests of magical knowledge to breach the security measures on Dengel's Lair.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_89fd748e	comment	From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "Why is a Raven like a writing desk?" Lewis Carroll himself wrote: "Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter's Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: 'Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front!' The canonical answer, of course, is; "I haven't the slightest idea." Despite Word of God, people keep trying to "answer" the riddle. Some of the more famous "answers" include: "Because there is a B in both and an N in neither." "Because they both have inky quills." "Because Poe wrote on both." Another answer, in "The Cheshire" by Bill Kte'pi. The Genre Savvy title character says the outright truth, "It's nothing like a writing desk", which was the point of the original riddle; to show that the Wonderland inhabitants were quite insane. Yet another, from a Christopher Stasheff book: "Both require quills to truly take wing." Naturally, this hasn't been a really valid answer for some time. An annotated version of Alice in Wonderland suggested "It stoops with a flap," or a flap of wood that creates an incline on which to write. Another answer: "You can't ride either one like a bicycle." It just seems to fit Wonderland so very well.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_8c76c03	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters, Yugi's puzzle-solving skills come in handy quite a few times as he solves puzzles the group encounters on their journey.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_8cb3a247	comment	In the fourth book Harry stumbles on a sphinx in the labyrinth and has to solve its riddle.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_8d318bad	comment	Super Mario RPG: While slogging through Bowser's Castle toward the end, Mario reaches six doors, leading to instances of three kinds of challenges. Two are straight combat, two are platforming action, and two are a gauntlet of dime-store brain teasers, hosted by a green Hammer Brother named "Dr. Topper". On the menu: peg-jumping puzzles, counting games, trivia quizzes about the RPG itself, and an infuriating "Who finished what place in a triathlon?" word problem. You only have to pass four of six doors, but randomly speaking, you'll have to face at least one of them. There are some in the Sunken Ship. A series of platforming challenges give nautically themed clues to a six-letter word puzzle to enter the Boss Room. None of the challenges have to be completed, if a player can suss out a fitting word from the given letters. Both the quiz-gauntlet and the word puzzle are relatively simple affairs, but for younger players, they could be pretty stymieing, as they relied on critical thinking and some outside information.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_8fa1064	comment	In MediEvil, the player can only gain entrance to the Asylum after answering a number of riddles "so perplexingly complex that no man has ever solved them" posed by Jack of the Green. Interestingly, the puzzles themselves are fairly easy to figure out, except for perhaps the last one. The real problem is in figuring out how you're meant to answer them.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_93fc1d2b	comment	In both Paper Mario and its sequel, there are puzzles where you're required to answer questions about the game to proceed (or at least, to avoid a tricky boss fight).
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_945f2d42	comment	In Wapsi Square Monica meets Phix, keeper of the Bibliothiki, who asks her a riddle. When Monica answers, Phix gives her a prize. Later on Monica takes her friend Shelly to meet Phix, who asks her the same riddle [large-format strip]. The twist is that Shelly gives her a different answer but also gets a prize. Note that Phix doesn't say that either of the answers are right, she just says "good for you".
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_95818d99	comment	Killer7 has a number of strange puzzles in bizarre and unlikely places.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_9739c16c	comment	Oracle of Askigaga: At one point of the game, you have to correctly pick out the true assassin within a small group of people in order to proceed.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_985ad25d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super, Vegeta suggests to Beerus and Champa that only those fighters who can pass through a simple intelligence test are allowed to participate in the tournament between Universe 7 and Universe 6. For some reason, he completely ignores the fact that he has Idiot Hero Goku and Fat Idiot Buu in his team, effectively eliminating Buu from the tournament and almost eliminating Goku in the process, while all members of Champa's team pass through the test (although Magetta has trouble during the test), giving Beerus's team a disadvantage in numbers.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls Riddles are recurring puzzles in early installments, though later games forgo them in favor of more conventional puzzles. According to various in-game books, riddles contests are a popular pastime amongst the upper crust, who use them to show off their wit and intellect, implying that these riddle puzzles are based out of that custom. In The Elder Scrolls: Arena, all the dungeons with pieces of the Staff of Chaos (and clues to said pieces) have doors and gates that are locked away with riddles. For example, one of Labyrinthian's riddles is "Two bodies have I, / Though both joined in one. / The more still I stand, / The quicker I run...",note The answer is an hourglass while Halls of Colossus has one where you convert letters into numbers to figure out someone's age. Various doors in Level 2a of An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire are also impassible unless you answer a riddle. Thankfully, there's also a copy of The Kendhall Book of Riddles in the study, which has answers to all of them. The "Courtesy" quest in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has you defend the honor of the Imperial Legion by answering some riddles. Unlike the previous games, the riddles are actually multiple choice questions, but the correct option doesn't appear unless you have a copy of The Red Book of Riddles in your inventory (the book doesn't actually show you any riddles, so your character is presumably looking them up) or your Intelligence stat is 50 or higher. Skyrim: Many of the ancient dungeons have various lever and button puzzles, often with deadly traps to go off if you don't get the solution right. Often, the combination is shown in plain sight, but people still get it wrong. The huge puzzle doors are especially notable, as they require both a key and a combination, but the combination is engraved on the key. However, one book actually points this out - the puzzle doors aren't intended to keep explorers out, but to keep the undead draugr in. The bare minimum of intelligence required to figure out how to open the door is expected because draugr are practically mindless and can't even accomplish that.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_9d963831	comment	Septimus Heap has the Wright of the Widdle in Queste, where the protagonists have to guess the meaning of some expressions that refer to some symbols to enter the House of Foryx.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_9e63932d	comment	Ojamajo Doremi has Doremi answer a somewhat-Sphinx inspired riddle. "Thin in the day, thick in the night, it disappears when it sleeps." Answer: Cat's eyes.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Played with in Diamond / Pearl. One Gym presents you with three doors and a mathematical question - you go through the door associated with the correct answer. The thing is, the questions are so easy - and the main character is even given a calculator right at the start of the game - that the trainers who battle you behind the incorrect doors assume you deliberately got the answers wrong. One girl is pleased that you decided to battle her; another cheerfully agrees with your 'battle everyone' philosophy; and one boy complains 'why don't you just answer the questions properly?'. Then there's the last question: "What was the answer to the first question?" If you weren't really paying attention because the questions were so easy, you'll likely get it wrong. Played straight in the rest of the games such as the second-last Gym of the first generation has a series of doors that can only be opened by answering a series of general-knowledge questions pertaining to the Pokemon world. Failure to answer correctly results in you having to fight the trainers guarding the doors — and since they give extra experience and cash anyway, why tax your brain? The questions are for those who don't want to battle the trainers. You don't even need to answer the questions. Talk to the trainers to battle them and the door automatically opens if you win, whether you answered the question or not. Also in PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, you have to play an audio quiz with Sophocles as part of his trial, due to the power required to run everything else being used up by his equipment to summon the Totem Pokemon. Failure to answer the question correctly results in Sophocles getting fried; answering correctly gets you a battle, with the Totem Vikavolt being number four.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_a0ff9e30	comment	Terry Pratchett has a lot of fun with this trope in Pyramids. Pteppic meets the sphinx of Greek Mythology — and gets into a three-page discussion about how the classic riddle ("What is it that walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon and on three in the evening? — A man") doesn't make a lot of sense. The final version: "What is it that, metaphorically speaking, walks on four legs for about twenty minutes just after midnight, on two legs for most of the day (barring accidents) until at least suppertime, after which it continues to walk on two legs or with any prosthetic aids of its choice?"
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_a2c37f38	comment	Subverted in Planescape: Torment: the night hag Ravel Puzzlewell asks everyone who seeks her out the sphinx-like question, "What can change the nature of a man?", then tortures and kills everyone who gives the wrong answer. Turns out she wasn't looking for a particular answer. She was interested in the response of a particular person, that of her former lover. The Nameless One's "best ending" has him stating that many things can change the nature of a man. Belief, regret, love, etc. Then he gets to revive all his companions (except the evil pyromaniac mage) and say goodbye before enlisting in the Bloodwar.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_a2f5534c	comment	In King's Quest VI, in order to get anywhere beyond a small beach on the Isle of the Sacred Mountain, you have to bypass a little obstacle aptly called the "Cliffs of Logic". That the Cliffs are an ancient test of intelligence is only the in-character explanation; out of character, the game practically demands you look up the solution in the guidebook that came with it.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VI had a very interesting minigame built into the plot, wherein the team has to sit down for dinner with Emperor Gestahl and make small-talk. Several questions are asked of the player, for toasts and such, most of which offer three possible answers: sucking-up, magnanimous, and vindictive. He also answers questions about some plot-points, and then quizzes on which one was asked first. The game goes on through the dinner no matter what; since it's not possible to "lose", it's not exactly a critical puzzle, but "winning" nets the player lots of nice rewards. The puzzle is figuring out the right answers - each has a score attached to it, with the rewards based on the total earned. As the Emperor is trying to make amends for his past actions, you shouldn't pick the options that make light of his apologies or, you know, offend the host himself. As the other Returners are present, you shouldn't want to offend them either by sucking up too hard for their previous enemy, which is why the middle-of-the-road answers are best. In Final Fantasy X-2, there's a minigame called "Sphere Break". This game revolves around using coins to come up with various combinations of numbers with multiplication and addition. Finding the coins in the game proper is fairly easy, as you just wander around playing the desert minigame until you find the coins you need. The Sphere Break game itself requires quick mental math, something that no amount of grinding or walkthroughs will ever prepare you for. And to add insult to injury, some of the game's best Accessories, as well as a few Garment Grids and the Lady Luck Dressphere, can only be won by playing and/or winning Sphere Break matches, not to mention that the minigame itself can be abused for item farming. Final Fantasy XIII-2 has the temporal rifts, which offer you one of three puzzles; Tile Trial, Crystal Bonds, or the Hands of Time. Tile Trial is fairly painless, but the harder Crystal Bonds tend to demand very quick reflexes, memorization, and a bit of luck. As for Hands of Time, it's the only one that isn't mandatory to complete the game, and when you attempt one, you'll see why. Etro help you if you decide to go for 100% Completion, because you have to solve several of them, often going up to thirteen numbers. An alliance raid boss in Final Fantasy XIV has a phase where it reduces everyone's HP to the single digits and builds up an attack that will kill you unless you match your altered max HP in multiples of X with X being whatever number the boss mentions. Four circular pads on the floor boosts your HP by 1 to 4 to help you solve the math problem. The real difficulty comes in later where the boss does the same gimmick again, but replaces multiplication with having you match your HP to prime numbers.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_a9f06cb6	comment	VeggieTales did an Affectionate Parody of The Lord of the Rings, which has a scene similar to the Gates of Moria. As the show is for kids the riddle is quite easy. The answer is an elephant.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ace263fa	comment	Pick a Deltora Quest book. ANY Deltora Quest book. Chances are you'll find a riddle that needs solving, some cryptic code that needs cracking or some other puzzle that needs figuring out. Probably more than one.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ae54c340	comment	Reign of the Seven Spellblades: The test to enter the third layer of the labyrinth consists of the Battle of Hell's Armies, where two skeletal legions eternally reenact the ancient Battle of Diama (a Fantasy Conflict Counterpart of the Battle of Zama). The objective is to subvert the historical events so that the losing side instead wins, which requires the mages taking the test to both recognize the battle (Oliver only knows it because Pete had mentioned it offscreen while nerding out) and have enough knowledge of battlefield tactics to figure out how to change history. Though Professor Vanessa Aldiss proves it's also possible to simply brute-force the test: when the seniors reach the battlefield in volume 7, she's singlehandedly wiped out both armies.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_b0766f14	comment	In a completely justified example, the entrance exam in Detective School Q (Detective Academy Q) is filled with this sort of thing.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_b389ac77	comment	Cryptonomicon plays with this in order to show off Lawrence's intelligence early on the book. Lawrence has to take an admission exam for the US Army Signal Corps. The admission exam is not exactly difficult... until he encounters a question in the math section that basically says "A swimmer can reach up to 2 miles per hour. He is swimming against a river whose current has a speed of 1.5 mph. How much distance he could cover within an hour?". His reaction is to think only an idiot would believe the river follows a simple laminar flow, decides that this should be approached via the Navier-Stokes equations that model water flow using partial differential vectorial equations, and proceeds to fill 10 pages of mathematical scribbles until he can finally calculate a physically accurate answer. When time runs out, he painfully realizes he had completely missed the point of the question, and ends up having to beg the Army bureaucrats to accept his multiple pages of mathematical research that even wound up being published in a scientific journal.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_b4622158	comment	Rakenzarn Tales is fond of doors that only open when you Enter Solution Here, usually by answering a nearby riddle or unscrambling a clue from another area. Plot-required ones are a little easier such as in Chapter 3 where you have to figure out what a place called the Water Sanctuary considers the most important thing, with the sidequest ones being a wee bit more difficult.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_b5a2b326	comment	The "Courtesy" quest in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has you defend the honor of the Imperial Legion by answering some riddles. Unlike the previous games, the riddles are actually multiple choice questions, but the correct option doesn't appear unless you have a copy of The Red Book of Riddles in your inventory (the book doesn't actually show you any riddles, so your character is presumably looking them up) or your Intelligence stat is 50 or higher.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_bba9da2d	comment	Zero Escape is a series of Visual Novels whose gameplay is focused on Escape Rooms, usually under time limits. Characters also tend to be trivia machines, stopping for mini-lectures about science and pseudo-science. Add the fact that the games tend to only use lectures on topics that end up being relevant, it means that all this trivia is actually required to escape. For what may be the crowning example in the series, at one point during Virtue's Last Reward, the only way to begin disarming Dio's bombs, (and thus, ensure everyone lives), is to decipher a code using a key from another ending. This requires that Alice find all the factors of a 25 digit number!
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_c34f83b2	comment	In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair only smart people can play the Final Dead Room's Life-Threatening Game. This is a shout-out to another Spike Chunsoft series...
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" contains a particularly nice (or nasty?) example. Human captives of the Daleks are imprisoned in cells aboard their ships. The Doctor examines the door-locking mechanism and works out a way to deactivate it and thus escape. He does, and it turns out that the mechanism is actually an intelligence test â€” those smart enough to escape their cells are potentially dangerous and are sent to be turned into RoboMen. The Cybermen do something similar in "The Tomb of the Cybermen". Anyone skilled enough in symbolic logic to get into the tombs and awaken the Cybermen is clearly a good candidate for conversion into a Cyberman. "Death to the Daleks" has a test which takes the form of a series of death traps, killing anyone not smart enough to find the solution quickly. The Doctor speculates that people who can pass might have some other knowledge that might benefit the city. "42" has a bunch of locked doors that require trivia questions to open. In theory this is a passcode system, not a puzzle â€” the crew of the ship in question set the questions with the intent to be the only group who could give all the right answers. Notably, one of them set his favourite colour as an answer. However, "the crew's changed since we set the questions", the current crew reset the questions while drunk, and some of them have died horribly, explaining the fact that all the questions seen aside from the guy's favourite colour apparently have to be answered by the Doctor or Martha. Granted, this episode is set far enough in The Future that a question referencing The Beatles is listed in the category of "Classical Music".
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_c58bb13f	comment	Elena of Avalor: When the new (and largely untrained) royal wizard Mateo needs to access a powerful spell book in order to reverse a curse, he discovers that the spell book can only be found by solving several riddles. The trope is then played with when it turns out Mateo can't solve the riddles and begins to question if he should be the wizard at all; Elena then insists that it's fine if he relies on his friends to solve the puzzles as long as Mateo gets the spellbook and saves the cursed people in the end.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. In "City at the Edge of the World", the descendants of a civilization that descended into barbarism have to get through a door leading to a New Eden (it's a long-range teleporter to a new colony planet). They convince a gang of Space Pirates that what remains of the planets' wealth is sealed up behind the door. They know these criminals aren't clever enough to open it themselves, but they can get hold of someone who is.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ca4925a9	comment	Born Under the Rain: Inside the Northern Desert Sphinx is a series of bridges that need to be unlocked to reach the boss of the area. One of those bridges are unlocked by a math puzzle where four numbers out of twelve options must be chosen to add up to 19.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ca713b1c	comment	Fatal Frame has several doors were locked with numerical combination locks. This wouldn't be so bad (the combinations are hidden in various notebooks and diaries hidden around the mansion), except that the lock itself has the numbers written in kanji and in an archaic arrangement (counterclockwise with "zero" in the top position). Only a minor example for Japanese players, but for Western players this is Guide Dang It! territory (at the very least, much harder than the developers intended the puzzle to be). Fortunately, the Xbox remake addressed this by changing the lock to feature numerals rather than kanji.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_cae652c	comment	One of the pre-Hunter Exam trials in Hunter Ã— Hunter asks you who you'd choose to save, your mother or your lover. When Gon notices the first guy (who chose the mother) was sent to his death, he realizes no answer is right, and says nothing. Again, no answer is right. They pass.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_cb7dbdfe	comment	Exploited in Diamond Dogs by Alastair Reynolds. The novella concerns the discovery of a sealed alien tower that can only be ascended by answering successively more difficult math problems in various chambers. The characters in the story are eventually forced to augment their own intelligence with neural implanting just to proceed. More sinisterly, the doorways between each chamber get smaller each time, forcing the characters to also modify their bodies to fit. The exploitation comes when narrator realizes that the Tower probably doesn't have anything at the top. It exists solely to goad gullible intelligent species into exploring it. When they get to the top, the tower "harvests" them like a Venus Fly Trap.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_cd1550c5	comment	A variant occurs during The Dark Tower series, when Blaine, the insane supercomputer/monorail voluntarily takes the heroes to their destination, but agrees to let them live only if they can come up with a riddle he cannot answer. The catch is that Blaine has computer-access to the Dark Tower, and can therefore draw on the knowledge of riddles from ALL dimensions in existence. He is only defeated by BAD riddles, i.e. Eddie's horrible schoolyard jokes with no logical answers, which enrage Blaine to the point of blowing his own dipolar circuits.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_cd81de4	comment	Likewise, Quest for Glory IV has Dr. Cranium (supposedly an ancestor of Dr. Brain), whose lab is behind four different puzzles, though all but one are interconnected. Unlike his descendant though, Cranium just wants his privacy and is sufficiently impressed when you enter. He even has a sign on his front door that all but names the trope.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ce3f8811	comment	The Black Mirror series is full of puzzle lock mechanisms and safes with Only the Knowledgable May Pass solutions whose presence in the game world strains credibility. This is Lampshaded in Black Mirror II where at one point the PC sees an "escritoire without a puzzle lock" and muses that it must be an old model.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_d11c45fe	comment	Invoked in Jasper in Deadland; Cerberus initially thinks that eating a living person like Jasper will give it some insight into what it means to be "alive". To avoid this, Jasper realizes he can just explain to Cerberus what it means to be alive.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_d29994ae	comment	Live A Live has the Trial of Wisdom dungeon in the Final Chapter. You're only allowed to challenge it if you have Cube in your party, otherwise you are merely told "those who rely on strength may not enter here". There are no battles to be had in the dungeon, and you're instead tasked with solving puzzles to get an ultimate weapon at the end of the dungeon. That said, there will be a Superboss waiting for you if you return to the dungeon after clearing it.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_d4f68ddc	comment	In Exile II, to address the Vahnatai Council you must complete as many as three testsnote Depending on which puzzles you solved in the previous chapter, you could be required to do all three, or none at all: the Test of Strength (a series of combats), the Test of Speed (outrunning a wall of quickfire), and the Test of Mind (word games, math puzzles, riddles, and a maze). You might suspect that most players would skip the latter if they had a choice, but there's also nothing stopping the player from going after all three even if they're not required. In the remake, Avernum 2, the Test of Mind was replaced with the Test of Patience (a Block Puzzle).
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_d502170c	comment	Also in PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, you have to play an audio quiz with Sophocles as part of his trial, due to the power required to run everything else being used up by his equipment to summon the Totem Pokemon. Failure to answer the question correctly results in Sophocles getting fried; answering correctly gets you a battle, with the Totem Vikavolt being number four.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_d78e771e	comment	In The Mote in God's Eye, the alien Moties have museums that are locked using astronomical puzzles. This is justified, since the museums are meant to help restore their civilization after the Dark Ages caused by inevitable, unstoppable population explosions, so the puzzles keep barbarian savages from busting the museum's lasers by using them to smash open walnuts.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_da4d6422	comment	"The Most Precious of Treasures": Subverted. The protagonists must solve a room-sized Queens Puzzle in order to pass from one room of a dungeon to the next. Its purpose is to allow people in and keep beasts out, thus it's really a case of Only Sentient People May Pass; the implication is that the builder chose a well-known puzzle on purpose.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_da766e2	comment	Harry Potter and the Underground's Saviour: Among the physical, magical, and teamwork puzzles the staff (and some Undertale characters) have set up are a few riddles, including: "How many eggs are used in French cooking." This goes unsolved until posed to someone from Beauxbatons, who repeats it in French, leading to the answer, "One, because one egg is un Å“uf." That is, "Enough".
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_daff6a21	comment	At one point in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, our heroes have to hack into the police files. After breaking standard security and encryption, the final security measure is figuring out the winning move in a game of Duel Monsters.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_dc03f758	comment	This happens twice in A Mage's Power: When Eric tries to enter the Temple of Zaticana, his path is blocked by the temple's guards. They declare that "No earthbound mortal may cross this temple threshold." Eric quickly figures out that instead of forbidding mortals to enter the temple, the statement means they want him to jump across, i.e. prove he is not "earth bound". Eric's trial in Kyraa to earn Dengel's power involves knowledge from runes to dragon customs to clever use of magic. The entrance to the Black Cloak's hideout is carefully hidden and guarded. To enter without setting off alarms, Eric has to use several spells in combination
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal. The puzzles at the beginning exist not to test the Portal Gun, but to see whether Chell is smart enough to use it.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_dfd300a6	comment	In Prickly City, Carmen is assured only the smartest people are allowed in an exclusive club.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e144ba19	comment	In the Dragon Age II DLC Mark of the Assassin, the vaults of Chateau Haine are like this. Normal people keep their valuables safe with locks and, perhaps, guards. Duke Prosper prefers to use puzzles.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis had such puzzles, like finding the ZPM by using the numbers 1-9 to make a Magic Square Puzzle, part by desperation, part by realizing the significance of the number 15.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e5da0fa0	comment	The Myst: The D'ni people in general were enamored of puzzle games, and Atrus picked up on it quickly when taken to the ruined city. It's lampshaded in a parody of Revelation, by a frustrated Stranger working on the fireplace puzzle:
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: The series in general is this, with the player either having to find clues, assess evidence, question witnesses or create theories as to how something happened. Only a lawyer (and smart player) is capable of these tasks. In the fourth game, Apollo has to figure out how a professional magician pulled off one of his illusions. Not for any relevant reason, but because The Judge has decided that he wants to know how it was done, and that he wants Apollo to explain it to him. Once he understands, they continue with the actual trial.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e6267766	comment	The Brotherhood of Shadow game mod has a wicked one. A Czerka employee was trying to seal off the mining tunnels from his crazed co-workers. He set up a system requiring accessing several terminals in succession and answering questions about "basic galactic history" (read: lore from Star Wars Legends) in order to open the doors.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e67a7d6c	comment	The lower levels of Mahora Academy's Library Island in Negima! Magister Negi Magi is filled with these, as Negi and the Baka Rangers found out the hard way in an early chapter. However, these were deliberately placed by the headmaster, who appears to have plotted the whole adventure to force the Baka Rangers to study for their finals. The characters treat it more like Alphabet Soup Cans.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e75c6d45	comment	Goblins: These kinds of puzzles are mandatory in any dungeon crawl. Sometimes there is a straight but not always obvious solution, other times the heroes need to Take a Third Option. In Tempts Fate 5 Tempts runs across a sentient door asking him a riddle. An incorrect answer will spell certain doom. So Tempts just opens the door without answering and walks on through. In Tempts Fate 7 there is a series of such puzzles that were needed to be solved by the readers before Tempts could pass them. While all the puzzles were solved, Tempts took a third option on one of them anyway. Tempts Fate 10 is similar. A classic example can be seen here. You have to pull out the tree block, and the real key to the door is literally under it.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e8155134	comment	In Looming Shadow, Eric has to pass several tests of magical knowledge to breach the security measures on Dengel's Lair.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Constantly in Lone Wolf, where all your enemies use number problems to protect their stuff. In a gamebook with numbered sections, of course, number puzzles are the easiest to implement, and leave little possibility of cheating for the player.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ecee4546	comment	Subverted in The Librarians 2014 "...And the Rise of Chaos", in which the DOSA vault has three locks. Ezekial finds them unhackable, and while Cassandra's has a maths problem and Jake's has an ancient riddle, entering the answers doesn't work. They eventually realise that, since they're smarter than anyone at DOSA, and DOSA is specifically trying to keep them out, the locks are designed to stop smart people from passing. Instead of the complex number she originally came up with, Cassandra realises the simplest solution is 3, Jake enters the exact opposite of the riddle's answer, and the password for Ezekial's lock? "Password".
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_edaa765e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Knights of the Grail have protected their treasure with a series of tests, each more fiendish than the last, to ensure that no unworthy man may pass. The tests are multi-layered: to be proven worthy, one must find the clues to the tests elsewhere, interpret them correctly, and successfully act on the interpretation. Without the clues (which Indy's father found in his decades of research into Grail lore) it would be considerably harder, if not effectively impossible, to figure out the traps before they killed you. Those Wacky Nazis try to beat it with Trial & Error — but they've already lost over a dozen people to the first trap by the time Indy shows up, with Donovan shouting: "Get another volunteer." The final test, is simply of picking out the real Grail among all the dozens of fakes. No physical trait would give any advantage in figuring this one out. The correct one would be the cup looks completely unlike all the rest made only out of wood rather than gold. Also, anyone who is knowledgeable about Jesus would know he was the son of a humble carpenter and thus would likely not be able to have own a golden cup. Even Indy has a brief bout of Idiot Ball and almost falls victim to the second trap. He realizes how it works - you step on the letters on the tiles on the floor to spell out "Jehovah" - but momentarily forgets at first that in the original Latin the name starts with an "I". After nearly falling to his doom, he gets it right.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ee8e63ed	comment	In the novelisation of Earthsearch II, the puzzle at the climax is extremely simple but highly effective: the collected technological knowledge of the pre-Dark Ages Earth is guarded by a metal door that fits its frame too tightly to open, and is kept so by the slight heating from an embedded radioisotope; one must be observant enough to spot the extra warmth, smart enough to figure out that cooling the door will allow it to open, and sufficiently technologically advanced to achieve that on an overheated planet that has been in drought for over three centuries.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_f120845f	comment	The Kingdom of Loathing does this with the Altar of Literacy that people have to pass to gain access to the chat. Its trials include typing a sentence and answering the "unspeakably difficult" trivia question "What colour was George Washington's favorite white horse?" Even though it's meant to be a comical RPG in general, it is an unspeakably good idea.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_f123a7d3	comment	There are a handful in Avencast: Rise of the Mage: two requiring the player to figure out biographical information at the subjects' tombs and another only allowing access to an art exhibit to someone smart enough to reconstruct an artwork.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_f1660fb7	comment	Inverted in Yarra, River of Death, an (in)famous Polish module penned by Andrzej Sapkowski. At one point, the characters have to haul their barge over shallows made out of shoulder-deep mud teeming with maggots and leeches. After few moments inside the mud, everyone is required to make an Intelligence check. If they pass it, they instantly get a panic attack due to all the filth crawling all over them and won't be able to help that day anymore. In the same time, to haul the barge over, it requires a Strength value impossible without at least 3 average characters working together, thus making a Dumb Muscle PCs very handy. That moment is responsible for roughly third of all Total Party Kills during the scenario, as it's perfectly possible to get stuck there forever and starve to death or die out of malaria. And no, no sudden flood is going to save the party.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_f38b71c3	comment	In Dead Space 2, the Marker tests all that it comes into contact with by transmitting a signal that either drives people insane or gives them the knowledge they would need to create a new Marker.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_f6bb880b	comment	Professor Layton has many of these. Penny Arcade parodies it, suggesting it's a "Logic Opera": "every person you meet breaks into "puzzle" the way that Viking ladies tend to break into song, out of nowhere." The first game in the series, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, actually turns out to have invoked the trope: a guy deliberately set up all the puzzles to test the intelligence of those seeking his treasure. Becomes literally so as in every single game there is a guard of some sort preventing you from entering the dungeon(s) if you haven't completed a certain number of soup can puzzles, and you thought you could ignore the hard ones and only miss out on 100% Completion! In the Azran Legacy game, there's the Azran tombs where you have to solve the ball-rolling puzzles to get from room to room. Did Hershel never think to jump over that hole? No? How about follow Randy, who's pushing the balls? No? Only the ridiculously idiotic intelligent may pass, it would seem here.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_f74b5f80	comment	In Babylon 5, an alien probe promises to transmit its vast store of knowledge to any species that passes its intelligence test. It's actually a bomb that will destroy the first planet to answer correctly, taking out any up-and-coming civilization that might one day rival its creators.
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_fd0b756	comment	The Riddle Game in The Hobbit, since Gollum's kinda nuts. And in the "true" version, which is the only one you're likely to read nowadays, he intended to go invisible using the ring and kill Bilbo anyway. Then there's the in-universe debate on whether Bilbo technically cheated. It was concluded that "What have I got in my pocket?" shouldn't have been counted as a riddle at all, but it's arguably fair since Gollum accepted the riddle by trying to answer, even negotiating for three guesses. It should also be noted that Gollum demands three guesses, and guesses four things, though one of his guesses was correct at the time Bilbo gave the "riddle" (and had just become wrong a moment ago).
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Only Smart People May Pass / int_ff0f1797	comment	Rogue Galaxy: There's a skyscraper sized block puzzle guarding ancient ruins.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
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Apertum Mortem (Fanfic) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
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Death Bell / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Goonies / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Wee Sing / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Goblin Slayer / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
A Series of Unfortunate Events / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Binder of Shame / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
CoDominium / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Coraline / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Deltora Quest / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Diamond Dogs / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Goblin Slayer / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Histoire Du Prince Pipo / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
House of Hell / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
How Kazir Won His Wife / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Journey to Chaos / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Labyrinths of Echo / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Lone Wolf / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Oracle of Tao / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Ready Player One / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Revelation Space Series / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Romance of the Three Kingdoms / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Skin Game / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Sorcery! / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Space Assassin / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Hobbit / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Inquisitor Cycle / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Most Precious of Treasures / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Mote in God's Eye / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Welkin Weasels / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
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Cipher Academy (Manga) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Earthsearch (Radio) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Tropes N to S / Real Life / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Airlocked Round One (Roleplay) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Pathfinder Interesting Times (Roleplay) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Death Series (Roleplay) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Galileo / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Pixelface / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Raven / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Scandal / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Scandal (2012) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The 10th Kingdom / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Amazing Race / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Crystal Maze / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Krypton Factor / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Timeless / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Oko Yrrhedesa (Tabletop Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Jasper in Deadland (Theatre) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
A Dance of Fire and Ice (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
A Final Unity (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Achievement Unlocked (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Adventures In The Magic Kingdom (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Another Code (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Assassin's Creed II (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Avencast: Rise of the Mage (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Barony (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Blue Force (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Cat Quest II (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
DC Universe Online (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Dead Space 2 (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Deadly Rooms of Death (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Desert Nightmare (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Digimon World -next 0rder- (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Discworld Noir (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Dungeon Encounters (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Dungeons of Dredmor (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Escape from the MindMaster (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Fallout 2 (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Final Fantasy X-2 (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
God of War RagnarÃ¶k (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Grand Poo World 3 (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Hitman 3 (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
HuniePop (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
I. M. Meen (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Judgment Rites (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
JumpStart Reading for Second Graders (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
King Of Ring (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Legacy of a Thousand Suns (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Lufia (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
MapleStory (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Maru's Mission (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Oracle of Tao (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Password Game (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Police Quest (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Professor Layton (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Pump It Up (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Quackshot (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Rakenzarn Tales (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Ripper (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Robot Odyssey (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Shining the Holy Ark (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Super Hostile (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Super Mario RPG (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Tales of Legendia (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Cave (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The Legend of Zelda: Parallel Worlds (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The What-Iffers in: Final Fancy (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
The X-Files Game (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
3 in Three (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Wasteland (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Clonk / Videogame / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Dark Tales / Videogame / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Master of the Wind / Videogame / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Ebeeto (Web Video) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Adventurers! (Webcomic) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Tower of God (Webcomic) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Wapsi Square (Webcomic) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Cyberchase / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Pantheon / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Sonic Boom / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Tiny Toon Adventures / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Prince of Persia (2008) (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Tales of Eternia (Video Game) / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass

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