Personally, its one of the things I like, since normal battles are not that challenging if you have a good deck.
If you are struggling i would simply search on youtube for the solution. I had to do it once so far because i was spending too much time on a specific puzzle

I did for the most, but it kills the game flow to tab for them outside of the game. Maybe make this battles harder than normal ones or integrate a hardmode.

To each his own...
i personally enjoy them as well, perhaps would hate the once i get on hard mode

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Well, you know there is a story mode difficulty in which you can skip every battle, right? So you can play normal battles and skip puzzles. Developers made it for you, you just need to read.

Thought that there would all battles way easier. I like the normal battles, just dislike the Puzzles.

Some of them can be annoying as you have to deal with all new cards that may do something odd, meaning you have to hover over them and get the gist of their functions. Personally, I think they are fun. Most are easy once you figure out what it needs to get through it. On the flip side, they seem to be designed to teach strategies. Like using a deathwish to finish a card off, physically moving a card to your benefit, etc..

My biggest complaint about the puzzles is how unclear some of the card descriptions tend to be. You are left guessing what is actually going to happen when you play some of the cards due to the vague or downright misleading description of how these cards function.

Adding to the problems with puzzles - some of them simply don't work properly. The latest one I noticed was a Puzzle where I had to move Meve to the Ranged Row on the other side through several Water Hags with the help of some tricky cards. Thing is, I decided to test the cards' behavior, basically placing everything without any thought, and once I needed to Pass because my hand was empty, I actually won the puzzle. Meve stayed in MY Ranged Row, and somehow it had met the puzzle's condition.

There was also one about a Plague that involved actual luck - there's a solid chance you'll have to restart the puzzle simply because your units randomly damage stuff.

Thankfully, you can always load a checkpoint, lower the difficulty, then skip such battles. I hope a patch is coming soon.

For me, puzzles are the second best part of the game. Story being the best part.

I agree. I really don't line the puzzle quests at all. Gwent I really like, but the puzzles are just frustrating and get in the way of the story.

I like the puzzles. Second best part of the game. Best part is the story.
I really would like to see more of these smaller adventures. And keep the puzzles. The normal battles were a lot less entertaining because they were too easy.