Professor Layton and the Last Specter/Puzzles 101-125

Caution! This page contains all the hints and solutions for every puzzle from 101 to 125. 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 101

 * Name: Square Goldfish
 * Trigger: Talk to Marion
 * Location: Fish Lab
 * Chapter: 9
 * Picarats: 45

Description: Below is a goldfish-shaped toy. This toy has a trick to it: it can be split into four pieces, which can then be assembled to form a perfect square. How can the toy be divided such that the resulting pieces could be rearranged to form a square? Draw two lines dividing the goldfish into four pieces.


 * Hint 1: Try to visualize which parts can be made to form the square. You can only draw two lines, so significant portions of the resulting piece will need to fit together to form a square shape, right?
 * Hint 2: The length of one side of the finished square is equal to the diameter of the circle that forms the fish's head.
 * Hint 3: Both the dividing lines should be drawn within the fish's head. Can you work out where?
 * Super Hint: Draw two lines to make an X across the circle that constitutes the fish's head. You will have three quarter-circle wedges as a result. If you fit these into the grooves on the fish's tail, you'll have a perfect square

Puzzle 102

 * Name: Window Pains
 * Trigger: Talk to Jasmine
 * Location: Murray Street
 * Chapter: 9
 * Picarats: 25

Description: "I was carefully cleaning up the fragments of this broken window with my three friends. I picked up the first three pieces. My friends followed in turn, each picking up three more pieces than whoever went before them. In the end, there were still three fragments on the floor. How many pieces of glass were there to begin with?"


 * Hint 1: If you figure out how many pieces each person took, you should be close to the answer. Just make sure you don't forget any pieces.
 * Hint 2: Try reading the puzzle again. You already know how many pieces the first person took. You also know that each person took three pieces more than the person before them. Count out how many each person would have taken, and then add all the pieces together.
 * Hint 3: The first person took three pieces. Each person after that took three more than the previous person, so they had three, six, nine, and 12 pieces respectively.
 * Super Hint: Don't forget the three pieces left lying on the floor! Adding the pieces that were placed up to the pieces on the ground gives: 3 + 6 + 9 + 12 + 3. Now you've got your answer.