[Tarski]

I agree with most of this. I think the post demonstrates what a chore some adventure games can be when you get stuck on a puzzle: waste hours trying to get past it (before wasting hours on the next puzzle) or cheat and lose the satisfaction of having figured it out yourself.

[m_eiman]

Or maybe you tire of the "find the non-abvious joke reference thing to apply to gadget" routine and just want to get the story of the game, in which case hint books (web pages, these days) are the perfect solution.