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| - This article compares the number of puzzles included in each game with the rest of the games of the series. Puzzles may include number of inventory items and their uses (this may require a detailed breakdown of certain items which may have more than one use), and noting if the alternate solution leads to less points, or lesser ending. Some items may be used for solutions to puzzles or problems offering no points but not taking anway way as well (for example the goat in KQ1 will guard from the bad guys), but many of these are not counted as 'puzzles' for total quota in this list. In many of the games a puzzle counts as any action ('activity') that leads to points, be it picking up an item, using/giving the item or meeting/talking to certain characters, 'arcade sequences' (beanstalk climbing) and other actions. KQ8 adds killing monsters to the puzzle/points total, however these are not counted in this statistics list as there are way too many to count' with the exception of the basilisk and a couple of other bosses that require inventory puzzles/weapon puzzle solutions (plus this list is mainly concerning puzzles closer to traditional adventure puzzles/item puzzles). Mazes and boulder pushing/tile jumping puzzles, or simply hand action/talking puzzles, may also be in a King's Quest game, but its harder to count these unless an action of finding a way through the puzzle gives points. Not every KQ game offers a point system.
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