Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box/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: Train Swap
 * Trigger: Talk to Hank/Check left train
 * Location: Outside the train
 * Chapter: 1
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Description: Swap the positions of the two trains along the tracks. Move the cars one at a time and make sure the numbers by the side of the track match the numbers on each car.


 * Hint 1: Your first goal is to get the cars from the shorter train to their assigned places.
 * Hint 2: Move the red car marked 1 to the space on the far-right side of the upper track. After that, move all the white cars down to the lower track, and you'll be able to slide that first red car into its assigned spot.
 * Hint 3: Apply the method described in Hint Two to move the other cars, and you'll have those trains switched around in no time!

Puzzle 027

 * Name: A Dramatic Farewell
 * Trigger: Check poster
 * Location: Station Platform
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 20

Description: Train stations are an especially good place for dramatic farewells, aren't they? Below is a picture of a man and woman bidding each other a tearful goodbye. Somewhere in this picture is a single unrealistic detail. Find and circle that unusual area.


 * Hint 1: There's nothing wrong with the dog.
 * Hint 2: The moon hanging in the sky and the lamppost are fine as is. Oh, and don't bother searching the man in the foreground of the picture either.
 * Hint 3: The detail you're searching for has to do with the train car. Once you've spotted it, you're sure to shout, "There's no way you could move it like that!"

Puzzle 028

 * Name: The Warped Wheel
 * Trigger: Check produce cart
 * Location: Hill to Town Hall
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 20

Description: In the back of the train yard, there's an old, warped wheel lying on the ground, as shown below. A star is pointing to its axle. While no longer functional, the wheel is interesting because, when rolled on a flat surface, its axle traces a funny pattern if you look at it from the side. Of the five diagrams below, which one depicts the actual path of the axle?


 * Hint 1: This wheel's shape is essentially a triangle with the corners rounded off. Since the axle is positioned close to one of the corners, you can expect the pattern it creates to be rather unconventional.
 * Hint 2: The axle is positioned far from the center of the wheel, so you can expect the path it traces to contain an exxagerated up-and-down movement.
 * Hint 3: B and E are not the answer. Choose from the remaining three options, and don't forget what you read in Hint Two!

Puzzle 029

 * Name: The Winning Arrow/Which Arrow?
 * Trigger: Check fairground stall
 * Location: Hill to Town Hall
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 20

Description: A bag of candy dangles from one of the three arrows attached to the wall. Assuming that all three arrows are perfectly straight, which arrow--A, B, or C--is connected to the candy?


 * Hint 1: Don't trust your eyes! This puzzle contains an optical illusion.
 * Hint 2: Instead of looking at this one straight on, try rotating your Nintendo DS a little so that you have a diagonal view of the puzzle.
 * Hint 3: Here's an interesting bit of trivia. This particular optical illusion is known as the Poggendorff illusion.

Puzzle 030 (US)

 * Name: The Secret Message
 * Trigger: Check the fountain
 * Location: Town Hall Plaza
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: On the day Dropstone was founded 50 years ago, the villagers toasted with red wine and danced late into the night. They also built this statue, engraving it with the word RED and the date 8-12. Part of the statue is shaped like a wineglass and can be filled with water from the spout at the top. While the statue describes the villagers' activities on the day of the founding, it can also show where they all found themselves the day after the festivities. Can you figure out where the villagers were? Answer in three letters.


 * Hint 1: The puzzle asks you to answer with a three-letter word. Say...part of the engraving is the three-letter word RED. That's not just a coincidence, is it?
 * Hint 2: Imagine how things would look if you filled the wineglass part of the monument to the brim with water.
 * Hint 3: When the wineglass part of the monument is filled with water, the bottom half of the inscription "8-12 RED" is submerged in water, and the top half casts a reflection on the water's surface. Can you picture what that would look like?

Puzzle 030 (UK)

 * Name: The Wrong Date
 * Trigger: Check the fountain
 * Location: Town Hall Plaza
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: Dropstone was founded up to 50 years ago, and the founders commissioned a stone sculpture to commemorate that day. Unfortunately the dozy sculptor managed to engrave the wrong date onto it. The whole village had to live with the erroneous sculpture until some bright spark realised that converting it in a certain way would enable the correct date to be displayed. Think about what the sculpture could have been converted into to display the correct date. On which date was Dropstone founded? Answer in four digits (DD/MM).


 * Hint 1: The puzzle text tells you that the sculptor engraved the wrong date into the stone, so you know that 12-8 isn't the date Dropstone was founded.
 * Hint 2: Does the sculpture's shape give you a clue into what it could have been converted? That big bowl and the opening at the top should indicate that this sculpture is now a fountain.
 * Hint 3: Though currently dry, the fountain's big bowl is usually filled with water. Why don't you take a moment to...reflect on this?

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