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Silly question, perhaps, but are the treasures supposed to be useless MacGuffins, or can they be used as items in puzzles as well?

It's entirely up to you.

In "TWO", several of the "TREASURE" objects had other uses.

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In the psychology of adventure games, players tend to think that once they've found a treasure, that's all they have to do. So it's sometimes good to make a treasure useful for some other purpose.

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Yeah, that was exactly what I was thinking. An extra "puzzle" of figuring out that you have to use a treasure. Thanks!

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Certainly that's what I'm doing. A few of the treasures are just treasures, but most have another function to solve puzzles - either complex or simple. So I've gone for a bit of both ;)