Help Me Story Tricky

Why We Picked Help Me Story Tricky

Riddles rather than mechanics: a scene, an instruction that reads like a trick, and the slow realization that the thing you need to touch is not the thing you were looking at. More than 275 levels, and the humor lives in the misdirection rather than in the puzzle itself. It suits players who enjoy being outsmarted by a screen and then laughing about it, which is rarer than it sounds.

How to Play

Three things decide whether a run here goes well:

• Read the instruction literally, then look for the object it does not mention.
• Use anything on the screen, including the parts that look like decoration.
• When a level stalls, try the answer that seems too obvious or too silly.

Editor’s Note

The solutions are jokes as often as they are logic, which is either the appeal or the problem. Expect to feel foolish a few times before a level finally clicks, and do not expect the game to explain the trick. For reference: 85 of 172 on the puzzle shelf, 4.6 out of 5 from 89 ratings, and 2,684 plays.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.