Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box/Puzzles 126-138

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 126

 * Name: Slippery Crossings 1
 * Trigger: Check the lake
 * Location: Dark Forest 3
 * Chapter: 6
 * Picarats: 20

Description: The lake in front of the professor has frozen solid. The ice is thick enough to stand on but so slippery that any movement in any direction causes him to slide uncontrollably in that direction until he hits a wall. When stationary, you can change the professor's direction by tapping the arrows around him. Can you guide this professor through this slippery lake to the goal?


 * Hint 1: When you hit the first wall, head right!
 * Hint 2: After heading right as described in Hint One, you'll hit another wall. Don't try to head up to the goal from there.
 * Hint 3: In order to enter the goal, you must first stop in a position directly below it. There are two short paths lining the path that leads straight up to the goal. Take the professor on a course that takes him straight into the rightmost of those two walls.

Puzzle 127

 * Name: Slippery Crossings 2
 * Trigger: Check the block of ice
 * Location: Dark Forest 3
 * Chapter: 6
 * Picarats: 30

Description: The lake in front of the professor has frozen solid. The ice is thick enough to stand on but so slippery that any movement in any direction causes him to slide uncontrollably in that direction until he hits a wall. When stationary, you can change the professor's direction by tapping the arrows around him. Can you guide this professor through this slippery lake to the goal?


 * Hint 1: At the first wall you come to, head left.
 * Hint 2: Your next move should be to head up toward the top of the screen.
 * Hint 3: Don't get impatient while you're out there skating around. It may take you the equivalent of two laps around the lake to get where you need to be.

Puzzle 128

 * Name: Slippery Crossings 3
 * Trigger: Check the block of ice
 * Location: Dark Forest 3
 * Chapter: 6
 * Picarats: 40

Description: The lake in front of the professor has frozen solid. The ice is thick enough to stand on but so slippery that any movement in any direction causes him to slide uncontrollably in that direction until he hits a wall. When stationary, you can change the professor's direction by tapping the arrows around him. Can you guide this professor through this slippery lake to the goal?


 * Hint 1: Hang a right at the first wall you bump into.
 * Hint 2: The number of walls might make this puzzle seem daunting, but think of it this way: the greater the number of barriers in your path, the more options you have to work with. Always think ahead of your current position on the ice to narrow down the possibilities.
 * Hint 3: In order to enter the goal, you must first stop in a position directly below it. But considering the complicated nature of the course, you might have more luck starting from the goal and working your way backward. Do that, and you'll soon see that you need to position the professor three spaces below the goal in order to reach it!

Puzzle 129

 * Name: The Slobbish Mole
 * Trigger: Revealed after solving Photo 008
 * Location: Granny R's
 * Chapter: 4
 * Picarats: 40

Description: On the edge of a forest lives a particularly messy mole. His hole is so clogged with trash that eventually he has to tidy up. However, being lazy, he decides to clean his place while doing the least work possible. In order to pick up all the trash in his burrow without passing through any one tunnel twice, which of the holes, A through G, should the mole start cleaning from? While moving through any tunnel twice is forbidden, he can pass through any junction between tunnels as often as he wants.


 * Hint 1: Use the Memo function to trace out potential courses the mole could follow.
 * Hint 2: Do you see the little T intersection just above hole F? That's where the mole will end up when he's picked up the very last piece of trash. Find a course that lets him conclude his cleaning at that location.
 * Hint 3: Search for a hole that leads to an odd number of separate routes.

Puzzle 130

 * Name: The Strange Painting
 * Trigger: Check the painting on the back wall
 * Location: Guest Room
 * Chapter: 7
 * Picarats: 30

Description: The couple in this piece seem to be dancing high up in the air, floating impossibly near the chandelier. But as it turns out, when viewed properly, there's nothing strange at all about the picture. If you look closely enough, one peculiar area of the painting hints at the reason the whole picture seems so odd. Find that peculiar area and circle it to learn the truth.


 * Hint 1: Many things about the painting are a little off, but what one little detail seems the most unusual to you?
 * Hint 2: Thoroughly inspect the couple in the center of the picture. The answer is there somewhere.
 * Hint 3: The couple seems to be dancing in midair, so naturally you must be curious about what they're standing on. Look down at their feet. There's something strange going on where those feet meet the ground... Do you see it?