Professor Layton Thread

F, it's the first letter of each number counting to 10

I need to remove myself from this world

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Ha! I know this one already! It's F for "Five".

I should not have struggled with this, especially since I tried a similar approach to the last puzzle.
Make people answer these before voting n an election.

I think I got it.

That's right! Pretty clever, huh?

Yeah, like the last user said, it's pretty simple in retrospect for a layton puzzle.

Here's a funny one, might be solved too quickly, I fear.

One, You pour the 2nd one into the 5th
That's a pretty standard question

As it's puzzle 106 I imagine it's easy to overthink by then. It's just one.

Pour the middle full glass to the one one the right. Easy.

Two cups.

You got it. Easy to overthink is right.

Here's a brain teaser for some of you

bottom left, it has five figures but is made of nines

Actually, I believe the boy is adding up the amount of dots on the visible spaces. Dots on the opposite sides always add up to 7 on a normal die.
The fact that numbers are 14+X is coincidental.

The six flower in the bottom left only has 5 sixes

Bottom right. It is the only shape not comprised of odd numbers.

You got it.

You may be right. In that case, we got lucky. I looked up the hints and it seems like that is the case.

Don't forget the six flower.

Here's a tough one I'm giving you since I need to look for more puzzles. Hope this stalls you long enough
NO CHEATING

the premise is flawed

It is indeed.

the answer is also O, sorta
0 is 1000 times 0

text me
I actually figured this out when I was younger without looking it up, but it took me 500 years

the fuck? or am I missing something?

Lower Left shape.

The others are made of three 3s, five 5s, seven 7s, and four 4s, but that one is made of five 9s.

nvm, I see it.

Misread the sixes as nines. Flawed logic on my end. But is correct.

It's not immediately obvious at all, and to be fair a pretty bullshit puzzle. But once you know the solution you can kinda figure it out.

I both hate and admire you for getting it without a guide. Good job!

It's based on the QWERTY keyboard. See where the indents are in the chocolate? That means it's the letter on the keyboard in that direction. It's notoriously one of the most cryptic Layton puzzles.

Here's another puzzle which will take a lot of math. Get your calculators and papers out.

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just one

I know the answer but don't want to spoil everyone's fun. I'll wait a few minutes before answering.

13? Because there's no mice to impregnate her?

1

Oh wait it says baby mouse, so
seems correct.

Looks like others knew too

It'd only be 1 because you only brought home 1, wouldn't it?

Could be 0, they the puzzle didn't specify how long they live.

Touche, but you should be able to get a few years out of a mouse

I don't think there's any mouse with a lifespan shorter than ten months.

It really depends what you use the mouse for if you think about it :^)

The puzzle does imply that you'd want to impregnate her…

I think he meant feeding a snake you dumb furfag.

Correctamundo!

Good luck with this one, nerds haha

That's just some natgeo. It's your sick mind making the inference

BED

figured it out the last time I saw it
BED

In bed

This, and I remember solving it myself long ago. Care to explain?

The fountain reads 8-12 RED, but if you fill it with water, the top half is reflected, so it reads 8-13 BED

Yeah, just figured it out.
God, who comes up with this stuff?

All those people who used to make point and click adventures.

rly meks u thunk

nips

That was surprisingly enlightening.

iirc most of the puzzles in these games are pulled from different cultures around the world, with some original puzzles as well. Not sure which is the case for this one in particular, but the idea of using the visible reflection to solve a puzzle is something that's interesting enough to probably have been done at some previous point in history.

ai liek ur filename

Yeah, except now you can't interact with the contraption that's supposed to act in some way.

Akira Tago I think. Did he died? I remember hearing that too.

Oh. Does it mean the newer games are not as good? Haven't tried them yet.

sauce?

pretty sure that's it.

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He died, but it was still fairly recently.
layton.wikia.com/wiki/Akira_Tago
I can't recall which games came out after his death, if any, but I only played the first three in the series, which were all enjoyable though the third was definitely the worst imo.

Sorry if I'm taking a while, I ran out of puzzles and am looking for new ones. If anybody has more, feel free to take my place

Correct!

Here's the description for the next one: A famous space explorer has just discovered a new planet and landed on its surface to investigate it further.

During his three-hour investigation, he counted 379 male Octopleans, 439 female Octopleans, and 125 that had the features of both male and female Octopleans.

So right now, how many aliens are there on this new planet?

The one where you play as the girl came out recently. Makes you think, if it turns it was made after his departure.

943

just one, again

943?

oh wait
1

None, they're not aliens when you know who they are.
I think I'm kidding, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the answer.

Ah, this.

oh son of a bitch I see it now.

Yep that's right! Technically, the astronaut is the only alien on that planet!

Here's a good one:
A glass jar holds a single germ. After one minute, the germ splits into two germs. One minute after that, the two germs each split again, forming a total of four germs. Continuing at this rate, a single germ can multiply to fill the whole jar in exactly one hour.

Knowing this, how long in minutes would it take to fill the jar if you had started with two germs?

59 minutes

59m

So far the puzzles have been pretty easy, is there anything tougher?

is there porn of that shota?

What a slut

Correct!

that's an odd question to ask
The Layton series in general has very little straight porn, good luck finding any of that one generic kid

I'm picking out ones that people here can solve. There are some interactive ones which can be tough but they won't work on the imageboard format.
Here's the last one I have for you all. I tried to pick the hardest I could find. Took me a while to solve this one:
At the edge of town, there is a traditional private school with 10 boys, 10 girls, and a single teacher.

The school requires students to show proper respect to the teacher and other students by greeting the teacher and other students with one bow.

How many bows could you expect to see on a given morning?

well, it is a fucking mouse

I haven't seen this one before, but I assume it's 21?

I want to say 20 bows, but that seems too easy

She's a whore is what she is

I never played layton tbh
The answer is in the question isn't it? You can greet everyone with one bow.

Woops, I misread and though the teacher has to bow too. 20 is probably right. My logic was that you just have everyone taking turns to bow at the front of class each morning, which it sounds like was the same or similar to yours.

or this user is right, 20 students bow and the teacher doesn't

All wrong. Keep thinking. They have to bow to each other just once per day, and they have to bow to everybody individually.

So every student does 20 bows. 400?

400?

20 students each bow 21 times, once to each student, and once to the teacher.
20 x 21 = 420
so 420 bows.

If they have to bow individually, they can bow simultaneously, cutting the expected number in half. So my guess is 200.

AHHH I'M AN APE I FORGOT ABOUT THE TEACHER
So 220 is my new guess.

You got it! Good job anons

The boys bow to each other, which equals 90 bows
The girls bow to each other, which equals 90 bows again
The boys and girls bow to eachother, which equals 200
And then they all bow to the teacher, who doesn't bow to anyone, which equals 20.

I appreciate the joke, but you can't bow to yourself.

If i have a mirror I can. It's very important to respect not only others, but yourself you know.

There's an easier way. Each student has to bow to 20 people. 20x20=400.

This, but for some reason the game always explains those like its Common Core.

with this kind of logic you could be a puzzle designer

People would hate my puzzles

that's the point

Just be a puzzle designer for point-and-clicks. Those are usually fucking retarded anyway.

A question for everyone in this thread: what's your favorite puzzle? Mine is this one:
layton.wikia.com/wiki/Puzzle:Cats_and_Mice
The answer and logic behind it are simple, yet very clever. Plus, easy enough to explain that it can be told at family parties or things like that to distract children or impress aunts/uncles.

layton.wikia.com/wiki/Puzzle:Which_Doll?

How is 400 the correct answer?
If you have ten boys, they don't bow to each other 90 times, because while they don't bow to themself (obviously), they also don't bow to the same person twice, and the problem says they bow to each person one time. This is a factorial problem I think.

(n-2)! …. uh…. and there's a +20 after everything for the teacher… gosh… I can't remember how this works…

This thought crossed my mind, but no. If you just take the whole class, each kid bows 20 times - once to every other student and once to the teacher.

Let me ask this: did you all enjoy this? I can come back with several more puzzles in mind and have you try to guess them. I do own a pirated copy of the latest Layton game featuring Layton's cute daughter, but little to no documentation of the puzzles in that game exists. So if you guys liked this I can go to the latest game and take some new puzzles from there.

It does require some math, and you're probably overthinking things. If it's just the students of one gender, in this case 10, then each boy has to bow 9 times, and there are 10 boys. 10 * 9 = 90. Rinse and repeat for the girls and then again for the teacher. Think it over a bit.

This was quite enjoyable, thank you friend. Do bring in newer puzzles since it's less likely anyone will know the answer immediately.

it was nice, tho I guess I should play the actual games instead

There was one fucking puzzle, I think it was in either the first or the second game, that was like, "There's three ladies pulling their umbrellas out of the thing. Without looking, what are the chances that just two of them pull out their own umbrellas?" And so I'm thinking, "Okay, that's one in six, right? 3 x 2 x 1?" Wrong. "Is it three factorial or something?" Wrong again.I was having none of this shit. At that point I went through literally every single fucking number from 1 to 100, and you know what the answer was? Zero. When the game said "just two", it literally meant 'only two of them'. I've never played a Layton game since then.

I know which one you're talking about, but I don't think it's a bad puzzle. Maybe it's just me, but when it said "just two" it was pretty clear it meant only two got the right umbrella, and one got the wrong umbrella, which is impossible. It took me a few tries to get it after some blunders in logic, but once I understood what the question was asking the answer became clear.

But the metric system is so gay that it makes a terrible trap.

C'mon user, you gotta admit that's a clever puzzle.

If a puzzle's difficulty comes from ambiguity in the question, it's a bad puzzle.

I don't think it's ambiguous though, I think it's pretty clever. I'm not too proud to admit I was (and still am) a fucking dumbass and stuff like this takes a long time for me to work out. Not saying the same is true of you, it just sounds like you overthought the question without rereading it.

Layton threads are always a bright spot in the day to day of Holla Forums. Same for Jeopardy, but those have become pretty rare.

21 people each bow to 20, and not themselves. So 20*20=400

Layton as a whole is one third actual puzzles, two thirds "where do they bury the survivors" gotcha highschool grade shit. The moment you realize that, is the moment you can decide if the series is for you.
The only Layton game I can say I truly enjoyed was Vs Phoenix Wright, where there was a smaller gotcha shit ratio. Even then I enjoyed it more for the plot and the courtroom segments.

That fucking ending though.

I really liked that one and the ending sure was balls to the walls crazy.
The music was nice, too.