Imagine this: You enter a room that has nothing but the entrance, a huge solid statue of a dwarven blacksmith, raising his hammer over an anvil, ready to craft, and a door at the end of the room with a silver lock. This probably won't take long for your players to figure out, but might teach them some respect for sentient doors and their feelings. I thought that was really funny and clever, and I have an offer if you want to do such a simple-minded puzzle: Make the players politely ask for permission to go through, and make sure they say "please". After asking the DM for some explanation, he answered that the key to open the door was as simple as making the door itself say the word "Manticore" out loud. After a lot of chatting, the door suddenly opened, and we didn't really understand why. I don't know what other people would have done, but my silly Wood Elf Sid started shouting the word out loud, and after seeing how the door didn't react, he tried to reenact the sound of such (even though he had never listened to one). The group was presented with a closed sentient door that was impenetrable, and said that it didn't know itself how to open, and the only reliable clue we had was a word written on the walls: Manticore. It seemed to be quite simple, and after solving it, it actually was. This puzzle is one of the most recent ones that I've been presented. Well, I am not personally a DM, but I've played through quite a few imaginative puzzles (which are, honestly, one of the parts of D&D that I love the most), so I thought I might as well share them.
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