Professor Layton and the Unwound Future/Puzzles 26-50

Caution! This page contains all the hints and solutions for every puzzle from 1 to 25. Scroll carefully or you might spoil the answer of a puzzle for yourself. The solutions are hidden behind spoiler tags, so only take a peek if you're desperate.

Puzzle 026

 * Name: Upon Reflection
 * Trigger: Talk to Ward
 * Location: N. Flatstone St.
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: All three shapes here were created by rotating and shifting the same capital letter in front of a mirror. So, what letter is it?


 * Hint 1: Remember that each shape consists of the same capital letter and its reflection.
 * Hint 2: Cover either the right or left half of the shape, and try to draw in the other part of the letter. It might shed some light on the situation.
 * Hint 3: The letter seems to consist of one curving line and one straight one...
 * Super Hint: It's not O, and it's not Q either. Maybe it's something between those two?

Puzzle 027

 * Name: A Game of Cards
 * Trigger: Try to enter the casino
 * Location: Casino Entrance
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: This is a photograph of two gentlemen playing a game of cards. Everybody who sees this photograph point to the same thing and says something like, "Someone has no idea what he's doing!" Circle the part of the photograph these people are referring to.


 * Hint 1: Imagine yourself sitting at the table. Notice anything unusual?
 * Hint 2: Look closely at the two gentlemen playing cards. If people think that one has no idea what he's doing, he's probably doing something strange.
 * Hint 3: Take a look at the cards being held by the player wearing the blue shirt. The location of the numbers on the cards is a clue.
 * Super Hint: Where are the numbers printed on playing cards? They're not on the top-right or bottom-left corners... Think about where the numbers are located, and look at how each player is holding his cards. One of them is doing something you probably wouldn't do if you'd ever played any game of cards.

Puzzle 028

 * Name: Slot Machine Gun
 * Trigger: Try to leave the casino
 * Location: Casino Lobby
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 40

Description: Build a machine gun from the parts of this disassembled slot machine and help future Luke and Layton fight back! Rotate the parts and fit them into the checkerboard shape below. You must use all of the pieces without any of them overlapping. Now, hurry!


 * Hint 1: It's a complicated shape, isn't it? The part that fires the coins points to the left. Now, get to it!
 * Hint 2: The long, tubelike part is the barrel, and it goes all the way to the left with the red part pointing left. The funnel-shaped part of the big red piece faces up.
 * Hint 3: The long, lever-looking part goes on the right side with the ball-shaped handle at the top. The red part with the cogs goes next to the barrel with the cog on top.
 * Super Hint: If you've done Hint Two and Three correctly, the rest is pretty easy. The big red part at the very top with the funnel-shaped part facing up. The part with the heart-shaped screw goes in the bottom-right space with the gold part facing up. Just one piece left now. Hurry!

Puzzle 029

 * Name: Our Dream House (US) / Four Rooms (UK)
 * Trigger: Talk to Belle
 * Location: Flatstone St. 1
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 40

Description: The empty lot below is lined with wooden stakes forming a grid of squares. Your job is to stretch ropes between the stakes so that a four-person family that is planning to build a house here can have four identically shaped rooms. You must complete this puzzle using the entire lot and five ropes or less. A rope that traverses multiple stakes in a straight line counts as one rope if you draw it with a single stroke.


 * Hint 1: The lot is shaped like a square with two of the corners cut off. Keep this in mind as you think about what shapes you can make four versions of.
 * Hint 2: Four rooms of the same shape will solve this puzzle. However, they don't all have to be the same size! Did you perhaps make four trapezoids and wonder why you failed? Remember, to truly be considered the same shape, the proportions of all the rooms need to be equivalent.
 * Hint 3: The solution involves two large rooms of the same size and two small rooms of the same size. They're all equal shapes in terms of proportions.
 * Super Hint: Can you picture what a diamond gemstone looks like from the side after it's been cut? The four rooms are all that same shape. If that's still confusing, count two stakes left from the top-right corner and stretch a rope two stakes down from there. Then count two stakes down from the top-right corner, and stretch a rope two stakes left from there. See the shape you made? That's it!

Puzzle 030

 * Name: Cookie Conundrum (US) / Biscuit Baffler (UK)
 * Trigger: Talk to Minnie
 * Location: Southern Street
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 30

Description: There are 15 cookies to share amongst a large group. The first person eats one cookie then passes the two equal portions of the leftover cookies to two other people. They both eat a cookie then each pass two equal portions of their remaining cookies to two other people, and so on until all of the cookies are gone. It takes one minute to eat a cookie. Ignoring the time it take to pass time, what's the shortest amount of time it could take for all of the cookies to be eaten?


 * Hint 1: Visualizing exactly what the puzzle is describing as a scene in your mind might be all you need to figure this out.
 * Hint 2: Try and break the problem down into numbers. If one out of 15 cookies is eaten, that means 14 are left. If you divide those 14 in half and pass them to two people, they each get seven. That's taken one minute so far. If you think about the problem in concrete mathematical terms like this, you should be able to figure it out.
 * Hint 3: The two people who get seven cookies each eat one cookie, which takes one minute. They both have six cookies left and each divide those in half, then pass three cookies to two people each. That's two minutes so far.
 * Super Hint: The people who receive three cookies each eat one of them, so they each have two remaining. That's three minutes elapsed to this point. If you divide those cookies in half and pass one cookie to each of the next people in line, how many more minutes will it take to finish the cookies?