History Main / TryEverything

** Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' when Chell and Wheatley accidentally reawaken [=GLaDOS=]. Wheatley tries to cancel the process, but when he finds out it requires a 6-character alphanumeric password, his solution is to just start from the top, all while a very angry [=GLaDOS=] is reassembling herself in the background. [[TheDitz Despite being an AI, he gets as far as "AAAAAC", only to realize that he skipped "AAAAAB".]]

* Quite common in TextAdventures (and other AdventureGames as well), where players tend to pick up ''everything'' and, when confronted with a puzzle, immediately try to apply everything to it.

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** Averted for most locations in most 2D Metroid titles because the Power Bomb will clear the screen and reveal any destructable blocks.

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** Averted for most locations in most 2D Metroid titles because the Power Bomb will clear the screen and reveal any destroyable blocks.

* In ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'', solving many puzzles simply requires inputting a letter or single-digit number. Players who are stumped can TryEverything by going through the entire alphabet or number line until they hit the right answer. You lose [[ScoringPoints picarats]] for getting wrong answers, but only up to twice per puzzle, so if you've already gotten two wrong answers you have nothing to lose by doing this.

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* ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'', as part of its CopyProtection, asks the player to input eight-digit passcodes at three points during the game. You can either do what the game intends you to do and obtain the passcodes from the manual...or, noticing that the game checks each digit as you go along and will explicitly invalidate the password attempt as soon as you enter the wrong digit, try every single number for each new digit you get to. At worst, you'll have to retry about 80 times per passcode (as opposed to 80 million if the game only checked your passcode once you've entered every digit).

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* One issue of ''Justice League Adventures'' had TheFlash attempting to disarm a bomb wired to a keypad that required a three-letter password. Being ''[[SuperSpeed The Flash]]'', he simply tries EVERY three-letter combination at lightning speed, starting from A-A-A, A-A-B, etc. [[spoiler:The disarm code turns out to be O-F-F.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who don't have their Cutie Marks yet. Since they're desperate to get their Marks, they try everything from paper authors, catapults, sports, chicken catchers and several other things to get their marks of adulthood. All with accompanying MadLibsCatchphrase of "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS (Insert name of attempted job here) X!"

* MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic has the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who don't have their Cutie Marks yet. Since they're desperate to get their Marks, they try everything from paper authors, catapults, sports, chicken catchers and several other things to get their marks of adulthood. All with accompanying MadLibsCatchphrase of "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS(Insert name of attempted job here) X!"

* Websites that require this in order to navigate the site are known as having [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation "mystery meat navigation"]]. MMN is a highly frowned-upon practice, as it can mislead users into believing that there is less content on the page than there really is.

This is an interactive version of HowDoIShotWeb. May result from EnterSolutionHere.

** Other times, this type of behavior is discouraged by [[LostForever only giving you one chance]] to solve a puzzle.

* This is more or less the only way to collect all the voice clips in ''VideoGame/{{Baroque}}'' if you don't already know how to get each one. Punch every NPC, hit every NPC with a sword, shoot every NPC with your BFG, give every item to every NPC; repeat every time something plot-significant happens. Add to this the fact that there are over 300 items in the game, some [=NPCs=] only show up on certain floors of the Neuro Tower, and every floor is randomly generated... yeah. It gets pretty ridiculous. And yes, some of these are LostForever.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' actually encourages you to do this.
** And they really do mean ''[[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything everything]]''.

''[[TheStinger I won't give up, no I won't give in]] [[Music/{{Shakira}} 'til I reach the end]] [[Disney/{{Zootopia}} and then I'll start again...]]''

* Websites where trying to navigate the site requires this are known as having [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation "mystery meat navigation"]]. MMN is a highly frowned-upon practice, as it can mislead users into believing that there is less content on the page than there really is.

* ''Literature/Idlewild'' presents the human race with a puzzle in the form of a DepopulationBomb disease. The only success was a crazy mishmash of genetic and sociological sampling from around the world, bioengineering a novel immune system, multiple sterile safehouses, tons of drugs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.

* ''VideoGame/{{Theresia}}'' does its best to avert this by way of {{Booby Trap}}s. Clicking on everything tends to result in getting peppered with arrows or stabbed by a flying knife.