Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box/Puzzles 51-75

Caution! This page contains all the hints and solutions for every puzzle from 26 to 50. 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 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?

Puzzle 056

 * Name: The Door's Code
 * Trigger: Try to enter Car 2
 * Location: Car 3
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 40

Description: In order to pass through this door, Luke and Layton must arrange the symbols according to the following rules: -The star must be next to the moon. -The X must be second from the top. -The circle must be somewhere above the diamond. -The moon must be located two places below the diamond. Give it a shot!


 * Hint 1: "The X must be second from the top." As you know exactly where the X should go, start by placing this symbol. Once it's filled in, move on to the other conditions.
 * Hint 2: "The moon must be located two places below the diamond." If the moon is two places below the diamond, then the diamond must be in one of the top three spots. X already occupies the second slot, so the diamond is in either the first or third space from the top, right?
 * Hint 3: "The circle must be somewhere above the diamond." If you combine the above statement with the information from Hint Two, it's clear that the only place you can put the diamond is the third spot from the top. Once you've placed the diamond, you should now have enough symbols in place to solve the rest of the puzzle easily.

Puzzle 057

 * Name: Smell the Roses
 * Trigger: Enter the cabin in Car 2
 * Location: Car 2
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 30

Description: Ah, there's nothing like fresh-cut roses to boost your spirits. Can you help Sammy freshen up the whole car with their fragrance? Tap a square with your stylus to place a rose. The fragrance of each rose reaches two spaces in all directions but can't penetrate walls. If the fragrance of two or more roses overlaps, the resulting smell will be overpowering, so make sure to keep your roses spaced out. To remove an existing rose, just tap on it again.


 * Hint 1: Here's a handy hint. Start your work from the corners of the car.
 * Hint 2: Place a rose in the lower-right corner of the car, then think about where everything else needs to go.
 * Hint 3: To solve this puzzle, you need to put roses in fives different spots.

Puzzle 058

 * Name: In the Tunnel
 * Trigger: Leave the cabin after solving Puzzle 057
 * Location: Deluxe Room
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 35

Description: Two trains pass in the darkness of the tunnel. Move them around so that each locomotive ends up on the opposing track while still maintaining the same order of its cars. There's one trick, though: the number 2 cars for both trains must remain in their original tracks.


 * Hint 1: To start, try to get all the cars going to the top track into their designated positions before worrying about the ones headed to the bottom track.
 * Hint 2: Tuck away the red car in the side track that sits between the top and bottom tracks. Then bring down all of the cars on the top track. Move that red car up into its designated spot on the top track.
 * Hint 3: You can use the trick highlighted in Hint Two to move any car from the bottom track to the top track. Then it's just a matter of bringing that car out of the side track and up into its designated position.

Puzzle 059

 * Name: A Ticket to Where?
 * Trigger: Automatically triggered
 * Location: Deluxe Room
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 40

Description: In front of you sits the ticket that Layton and Luke found with Dr. Schrader. At firstglance, the ticket appears to have no destination written on it. But when you look at it just the right way, the ticket discloses its destination: the town of Folsense. The key to spotting the destination is the number that has been cut out of the ticket. What number used to be there? Use the ticket in the instruction booklet to puzzle this one out!


 * Hint 1: To find the answer, you have to fold the ticket in a particular way.
 * Hint 2: First, fold the entire ticket in half lengthwise. Next, fold the ticket lengthwise along the middle of each row of numbers. Fold it just so, and the top half of the top row of numbers will connect to the bottom half of the bottom row of numbers, revealing a string of letters.
 * Hint 3: The words "FOR FOLSENSE" are written on this ticket. What number must belong in the cut-out portion in order to form an E when the ticket is folded?

Puzzle 060

 * Name: Plaza Puzzle
 * Trigger: Talk to Rory
 * Location: Station Plaza
 * Chapter: 4
 * Picarats: 25

Description: "So there's this big, old statue in the middle of this plaza. When you take away the area occupied by the statue, the plaza looks kinds doughnutlike in shape. What you gotta do is divide this donut plaza into two identically shaped parts using only one line. "Oh, and before you get any big ideas, the dotted lines shown below won't cut it 'cause they're actually two lines." Draw your answer on the Touch Screen.


 * Hint 1: In the example illustration, the plaza has been divided by two lines, which makes the answer invalid. The fact that you need to use a single line to answer the problem is key. Since you can only use one line, you know you won't be solving this one by drawing lines through the middle of the plaza, right?
 * Hint 2: Even if you avoid drawing your line through the center of the plaza, no single straight line will divide the plaza into two pieces that are the same shape. By the way, did you notice the goal here isn't to make two pieces thatare the same size but merely the same shape? Keep that in mind.
 * Hint 3: If you're still having trouble, you should know that the single line you need to draw is a circle. The only remaining question is where to place it so that the two pieces of the plaza have the same shape and are directly proportional to one another.