> How the heck would a multiplayer (much less a MMO) puzzle
> game work? Give hints to each other? Collaborate on things?
> Race against each other to clear maps? For something like
> Myst, this sounds very strange
Read the books (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Myst-Reader/Robyn-Miller/e/9781401382216/?itm=11&USRI=myst). The ability to create links to alternate worlds (and the ability in the game, I'm assuming, to create those words themselves) is quite compelling.