[G3rn0ti]

I remember that puzzle from Monkey Island 3. I mean, yes, the game is tricky but think about all the hints the game is giving you: „gold tooth“, „jaw breaker“ and I think in the dialog tree with Blondebeard you could compliment him about the gold tooth … and the mud puddle where you dig for gold using a pan like like gold diggers did in the clichés about the gold rush. So I mean it could be worse.

You get the hang for these kinds of puzzles once you played a couple of them.

On the other hand what I hate most in adventure games are random logic puzzles to open a door or find out where you need to go next. This is usually a cheap way to slow the game down. Lucas Arts was guilty of this kind of thing after Ron Gilbert left in „The Dig“, too, which still was a great game nevertheless.

[amiga386]

The fun part is that puzzle you're describing is only in the optional Mega-Monkey mode where you chose to get more difficult puzzles at the start of the game. In normal mode, you can walk out the door with the gold tooth as soon as you get it.