Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box/Puzzles 51-75

Puzzle 051

 * Name: Flipped Cats (US) / Crazy Cats (UK)
 * Trigger: Check cat figure
 * Location: General Store
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 20

Description: One of the three color pictures--A, B, or C--is the same picture as the black-and-white one displayed on the far left. Can you find which one? The only difference is that the picture on the far left has had its content flipped left to right and its colors inverted and changed to black-and-white.


 * Hint 1: Comparing A, B, or C with the picture on the far left is a lot of work, and it can be hard to find differences. So why not forget about the black-and-white picture for a moment and just focus on finding the differences between pictures A, B and C?
 * Hint 2: Don't forget to look at those lines in the background.
 * Hint 3: The eyebrows on each cat are worth a look too!

Puzzle 052

 * Name: Hat Weather
 * Trigger: Talk to Lopez
 * Location: Tree-Lined Path
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: There is a fellow with very particular rules about when he wears his best hat. Below is a chart of when this man wore his hat over the course of one week. Use the panels to fill in the weather for each day, keeping in mind that it doesn't rain on cloudy days. (Note that the days of the week were bumped one day forward in the European version, so the first day of the puzzle in Pandora's Box is a Monday instead of a Sunday. The hints are taken from the US version.)
 * When it's sunny, he always wears his hat.
 * When it's rainy, he doesn't wear his hat.
 * When it's cloudy, he doesn't wear his hat unless it's been cloudy for two days in a row, in which case he wears his hat on the second of these days.


 * Hint 1: Start by placing a rainy-day tile on each day where our friend didn't wear a hat.
 * Hint 2: Once you put down the rainy-day tiles as described by Hint One, you may notice that there are no more spaces left for your cloudy tile. You could put it down on one of the days with a hat if that day was the second day in a row of cloudy weather, but no two days of the week shown appear to have been cloudy...
 * Hint 3: If the week before the one shown here had a cloudy Saturday, this fellow could wear his hat on Sunday, couldn't he?

Puzzle 053

 * Name: Boys Club
 * Trigger: Talk to Albert
 * Location: Town Hall Plaza
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: Below is a wheel of male and female portraits. Select a portrait and, counting that portrait as one, move six portraits clockwise or counterclockwise. Then cross out the last of these portraits. Repeat this pattern, starting from the next available portrait and moving in the same direction. If you start at just the right portrait, you can remove all the women on the wheel, leaving only six portraits of men behind. Circle this portrait. Remember, you can move clockwise or counterclockwise.


 * Hint 1: The first portrait you choose should be of a man.
 * Hint 2: Move counterclockwise to find your answer.
 * Hint 3: The first portrait you should remove is the girl positioned at five o'clock.

Puzzle 054

 * Name: Painting the Flag
 * Trigger: Talk to Kostya
 * Location: Wheat Field
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 25

Description: You have a pristine white flag that you want to color into three sections as shown below. You have three paints. No two adjacent sections of the flag can be the same color, each section can only be one color, and you can't change the number or size of these sections. If you aren't allowed to mix paint, how many distinct flag designs are possible?


 * Hint 1: You have three paints you can use on the flag, but that doesn't mean those are the only colors at your disposal.
 * Hint 2: Maybe you've noticed that the white color of the flag's fabric is another color you can use in making your designs.
 * Hint 3: Adding white to the three paints you have gives you four colors you can use to make flag designs. If the leftmost third of your flag is white, you will have a total of nine distinct designs.

Puzzle 055

 * Name: Sammy's Necklace
 * Trigger: Talk to Sammy
 * Location: Station Plaza
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: Sammy has eight chains with seven links each. He wants to connect all those chains to make a totally awesome necklace that's a single loop. The jeweler says he can open and close a single link for $2. As shown below, Sammy could open an end of each of the eight chains to make one long necklace that's a single loop. However, that would cost $16, and the truth is there's a cheaper way to get the same results. Using the cheapest method possible, how much will it cost to make Sammy's necklace?


 * Hint 1: The number of links in each small chain is a crucial clue that will help you solve the puzzle.
 * Hint 2: You haven't been opening only the links on the ends of each small chain, have you?
 * Hint 3: Try taking one small chain, popping open each of its seven links, and using those individual open links to connect the other small chains together. Is the answer clearer now?