Combinations, passwords and safes

Are there any clues embedded in the design? I like when these kinds of levels have a visual element that you can decipher to figure out the solution.

 

Here's one of my favorites in this genre:
https://mekoramaforum.com/threads/levels-good-enough-to-tweak.983/page-2#post-6643

 

I personally acknowledge that these levels and the like, they're a kind of guessing game.

Basically this kind of game is was great, maybe when it can be finished, or makes a high curiosity so it doesn't know what will happen.

It may have a fairly complex mechanism or depending on the complexity of the mechanisms. But others, of course, we do not know how the mechanism works or what goes on in there, because of its tightly sealed design.

Some possible levels of that kind might be hard to solve:

- There are no hints, or if there are any clues, there may be misinterpretations in applying those clues.

- There could be a possibility that mechanisms are unstable when the level is played, probably depending on the complexity of the mechanism used.

- It's possible the other players are tired of playing it and then skip it, leaving out the curiosity so the level can't be completed, except by the person who made it.

 

I like the mechanism in this one. And the clues helped!

 

The biggest problem in puzzle box levels is that a player will pull every visible slider or motor and none of them move.

As others have said, visual indications help a lot.

But also, making the first set of moves easily accessible will majorly increase people's curiosity in finishing it.

Any time a person undertakes a task that they don't know how to start or finish, making visible progress is important.

 

Just wanted to share a pin mechanism used in my Castle of Code:

Spoiler

Red = not the true code.

hope it useful.