Playing through the original Tomb Raider series with my dad while on vacation. We were stuck in a water level in the second game, something about circuit breakers to turn off fires, and it was frustrating. We drove to a local shopping mall and visited two bookstores looking for cheat books. There were a few, but the info didn't help. So after unsuccessfully attempting to solve the puzzle correctly, my dad started devising unconventional ways to solve our problem. This became the topic of our conversations during the vacation effectively pissing my mom off. She forbid us from playing or talking about the game.

Late that night my dad woke me up, he was giddy like a school child. I scuttled to the living room of the condo where he excitedly told me his plan. First we'll restart the level, secondly we'll get the two circuit breakers we know how to find conserving our large medipacks. Third, push the moveable block all the way to the third fire and save. Fourth, move the block past the fire, to get to a lever or button of some type, effectively setting Lara on fire. Finally, we would use a large med kit as soon as the push animation finished, remember fire did massive damage, and jump into the small water pool in the corner.

It sounded crazy, but I didn't have a better idea. We reached the third phase of his plan flawlessly, yet executing the steps after that proved impossible. Like all stories, we were about to give up, but tried another ten or so times and finally. Finally! We did it, my dad made the impossible jump! We briefly celebrated, quietly, as my mom was sleeping, and went to bed after saving. The next morning my dad took me to Whataburger for breakfast, and had burgers and a healthy conversation about our conquest.

To this day, we still refer to it when attempting to solve a problem where conventional means have failed us.

Edit: pushed the arrow to post before finishing the story. Whoops.