Professor Layton and the Unwound Future/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: Upon Reflection
 * Trigger: Talk to Ward
 * Location: N. Flatstone St.
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: All three shapes here were created by rotating and shifting the same capital letter in front of a mirror. So, what letter is it?


 * Hint 1: Remember that each shape consists of the same capital letter and its reflection.
 * Hint 2: Cover either the right or left half of the shape, and try to draw in the other part of the letter. It might shed some light on the situation.
 * Hint 3: The letter seems to consist of one curving line and one straight one...
 * Super Hint: It's not O, and it's not Q either. Maybe it's something between those two?

Puzzle 027

 * Name: A Game of Cards
 * Trigger: Try to enter the casino
 * Location: Casino Entrance
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 30

Description: This is a photograph of two gentlemen playing a game of cards. Everybody who sees this photograph point to the same thing and says something like, "Someone has no idea what he's doing!" Circle the part of the photograph these people are referring to.


 * Hint 1: Imagine yourself sitting at the table. Notice anything unusual?
 * Hint 2: Look closely at the two gentlemen playing cards. If people think that one has no idea what he's doing, he's probably doing something strange.
 * Hint 3: Take a look at the cards being held by the player wearing the blue shirt. The location of the numbers on the cards is a clue.
 * Super Hint: Where are the numbers printed on playing cards? They're not on the top-right or bottom-left corners... Think about where the numbers are located, and look at how each player is holding his cards. One of them is doing something you probably wouldn't do if you'd ever played any game of cards.

Puzzle 028

 * Name: Slot Machine Gun
 * Trigger: Try to leave the casino
 * Location: Casino Lobby
 * Chapter: 2
 * Picarats: 40

Description: Build a machine gun from the parts of this disassembled slot machine and help future Luke and Layton fight back! Rotate the parts and fit them into the checkerboard shape below. You must use all of the pieces without any of them overlapping. Now, hurry!


 * Hint 1: It's a complicated shape, isn't it? The part that fires the coins points to the left. Now, get to it!
 * Hint 2: The long, tubelike part is the barrel, and it goes all the way to the left with the red part pointing left. The funnel-shaped part of the big red piece faces up.
 * Hint 3: The long, lever-looking part goes on the right side with the ball-shaped handle at the top. The red part with the cogs goes next to the barrel with the cog on top.
 * Super Hint: If you've done Hint Two and Three correctly, the rest is pretty easy. The big red part at the very top with the funnel-shaped part facing up. The part with the heart-shaped screw goes in the bottom-right space with the gold part facing up. Just one piece left now. Hurry!

Puzzle 029

 * Name: Our Dream House (US) / Four Rooms (UK)
 * Trigger: Talk to Belle
 * Location: Flatstone St. 1
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 40

Description: The empty lot below is lined with wooden stakes forming a grid of squares. Your job is to stretch ropes between the stakes so that a four-person family that is planning to build a house here can have four identically shaped rooms. You must complete this puzzle using the entire lot and five ropes or less. A rope that traverses multiple stakes in a straight line counts as one rope if you draw it with a single stroke.


 * Hint 1: The lot is shaped like a square with two of the corners cut off. Keep this in mind as you think about what shapes you can make four versions of.
 * Hint 2: Four rooms of the same shape will solve this puzzle. However, they don't all have to be the same size! Did you perhaps make four trapezoids and wonder why you failed? Remember, to truly be considered the same shape, the proportions of all the rooms need to be equivalent.
 * Hint 3: The solution involves two large rooms of the same size and two small rooms of the same size. They're all equal shapes in terms of proportions.
 * Super Hint: Can you picture what a diamond gemstone looks like from the side after it's been cut? The four rooms are all that same shape. If that's still confusing, count two stakes left from the top-right corner and stretch a rope two stakes down from there. Then count two stakes down from the top-right corner, and stretch a rope two stakes left from there. See the shape you made? That's it!

Puzzle 030

 * Name: Cookie Conundrum (US) / Biscuit Baffler (UK)
 * Trigger: Talk to Minnie
 * Location: Southern Street
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 30

Description: There are 15 cookies to share amongst a large group. The first person eats one cookie then passes the two equal portions of the leftover cookies to two other people. They both eat a cookie then each pass two equal portions of their remaining cookies to two other people, and so on until all of the cookies are gone. It takes one minute to eat a cookie. Ignoring the time it take to pass time, what's the shortest amount of time it could take for all of the cookies to be eaten?


 * Hint 1: Visualizing exactly what the puzzle is describing as a scene in your mind might be all you need to figure this out.
 * Hint 2: Try and break the problem down into numbers. If one out of 15 cookies is eaten, that means 14 are left. If you divide those 14 in half and pass them to two people, they each get seven. That's taken one minute so far. If you think about the problem in concrete mathematical terms like this, you should be able to figure it out.
 * Hint 3: The two people who get seven cookies each eat one cookie, which takes one minute. They both have six cookies left and each divide those in half, then pass three cookies to two people each. That's two minutes so far.
 * Super Hint: The people who receive three cookies each eat one of them, so they each have two remaining. That's three minutes elapsed to this point. If you divide those cookies in half and pass one cookie to each of the next people in line, how many more minutes will it take to finish the cookies?

Puzzle 031

 * Name: False Memory
 * Trigger: Talk to Family Goon
 * Location: Southern Street
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 20

Description: Three people played Memory with 20 total cards of 10 pairs. Person A said: "I matched 10 pairs in a row from the start." Person B said: "I matched nine pairs in a row from the start." Person C said: "I matched eight pairs in a row from the start." One person is a liar. Which one?


 * Hint 1: If someone is telling the truth, what that person is saying must be possible. If someone is lying, however...
 * Hint 2: Someone is saying something that couldn't possibly happen in the game of Memory.
 * Hint 3: If nine pairs are flipped over out of 20 total cards, how many cards remain?
 * Super Hint: If you get nine out of 10 pairs right, you should be able to get the last one, right?

Puzzle 032

 * Name: Broken Lance
 * Trigger: Check the statue
 * Location: Statue Plaza
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 20

Description: There are four knights with lances in the photo. One of the lances was broken and then repaired with string right before the picture with taken. Which lance is it? Of course, all the lances were originally straight.


 * Hint 1: Compare all of the lances carefully. The repair above the photo is a hint.
 * Hint 2: The handle and the tip of the blade aren't quite aligned.
 * Hint 3: Look at the photo from many different angles. Now you've got it, right?
 * Super Hint: Knight A's and knight B's lances appear to be straight. Compare knight C's and D's lances carefully.

Puzzle 033

 * Name: Brothers 'n' Sisters
 * Trigger: Talk to Raleigh
 * Location: Statue Plaza
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 35

Description: Below are three siblings: A, B, and C. A: "I have one older brother and three younger sisters." B: "I have two older brothers and two younger sisters." C: "I have three older brothers and one younger sister." For all of their statements to be true, what's the smallest possible number of siblings there can be in the family?


 * Hint 1: Think about A, B, and C. Who's the oldest? Who's the youngest?
 * Hint 2: You know that A is the oldest, followed by B and then C. A also has an older brother. C also has a younger sister.
 * Hint 3: Try making a chart laying out the conditions of Hint Two, and mark the genders of each known sibling. You should make an important realization. Also, just so you're clear, A is a male and B is a female.
 * Super Hint: There are more than five siblings. If A has three younger sisters and C has three older brothers, then there must be at least three female siblings and three male siblings.

Puzzle 034

 * Name: The Mysterious Memo
 * Trigger: Talk to Layman
 * Location: Alley
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 25

Description: When you returned to your apartment, you discovered a strange piece of paper next to your calculator. Your roommate must've been trying to tell you something before he left. The note says "101 x 5". What could this mysterious memo mean?


 * Hint 1: Remember, the memo was left directly next to the calculator...
 * Hint 2: The memo is a math problem. Try entering it into a calculator.
 * Hint 3: 101 x 5 = 505. Calculators can't display letters so...
 * Super Hint: The answer to the equation is 505. Have you noticed that the five looks like an S and the zero looks like an O...

Puzzle 035

 * Name: Twisted Tunnels
 * Trigger: Talk to Hardy
 * Location: Behind the Casino
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 40

Description: You dug a bunch of tunnels, but they turned out as convoluted as an ant farm. You have to connect A to A', B to B', and C to C', and you can't use the same path twice. However, the only way to do this is to make one connection go above the ground. Is this connection A, B, or C?


 * Hint 1: Starting from A, head toward the right side of the screen at the first intersection you encounter. Starting from B, head toward the left side of the screen at the first intersection you encounter.
 * Hint 2: Starting from C, head towards the left of the screen at the first intersection you encounter. Starting from A', head towards the right of the screen at the first intersection you encounter.
 * Hint 3: Starting from B', head up at the first intersection you encounter. Starting from C', head straight at the first intersection you encounter.
 * Super Hint: Based on the instructions in the first three hints, line A won't go above the ground. Also, line A should be completely connected by now, so connect the remaining lines.

Puzzle 036

 * Name: Hide-and-Goon Seek
 * Trigger: Talk to Cuthbert
 * Location: Iron Bridge
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 30

Description: I got a feeling the Family's goons might be lurking around here. I didn't want any trouble, so I've hidden in a spot where I can spy on them without being seen. Do me a favor, will you, and tell me how many goons there are?


 * Hint 1: There's the leader! He's up on the balcony, toward the top right! That's one.
 * Hint 2: Those goons hide in the darnedest places! See that barrel at the bottom right shaking around? Sneaky...
 * Hint 3: Unbelievable! It looks like there's one up on the room at the top left! Or is that just a hat? You'd better take a look.
 * Super Hint: I'm pretty sure there aren't more than 10.

Puzzle 037

 * Name: Cat Romance
 * Trigger: Talk to Catanova
 * Location: Black Market
 * Chapter: 3
 * Picarats: 25

Description: This tomcat is trying to meet up with his sweetheart. However, the dogs on the squares with Xs can smell a cat up to three squares away and chase him off. They can't, however, smell a cat through a wall. Which entrance--A, B, C, or D--should the tomcat take to be reunited with his lady friend?


 * Hint 1: It's tough to find a path from each entrance. Start by thinking about where the dogs are.
 * Hint 2: Where is the tomcat in danger of being noticed by the dogs? Using the Memo function to fill in the dangerous areas might prove helpful.
 * Hint 3: Did you try filling in the dangerous squares? If you did that, wouldn't it reveal a safe path?
 * Super Hint: You'll know a path is dangerous is you've run into a dog before turning around three corners.

Puzzle 038

 * Name: Cluttered Bag (US) / Cluttered Case (UK)
 * Trigger: Check the parrot
 * Location: Riverside Hill
 * Chapter: 4
 * Picarats: 40

Description: A red garnet has fallen to the bottom of a downright-cluttered bag. Can you slide around the other items in the bag to move the gem to the top?


 * Hint 1: All that clutter got you confused? Well, here's a hint. You can't just move the garnet straight up. Looks like you'll have to bring it up from the right.
 * Hint 2: Move the following pieces up: the corner- shaped piece above the gem, the T in the upper right, and the piece below it that looks like an L on its side. Then you can move the gem up to the middle row and then all the way over to the right.
 * Hint 3: When you've completed Hint Two, put the garnet in the cavity of the U-shaped piece in the lower right. Then you can move the pieces above it to the left out of the way. From there, move the garnet all the way to the upper-right corner.
 * Super Hint: If you've made it all the way to Hint Three, the rest should be simple. At this point, the gem should be in the upper-right corner. If you move the three pieces that are below the bag's opening, a path out will appear. The key is to not move any items besides the initial three already moved.

Puzzle 039

 * Name: Coat Confusion (US) / Where's My Coat? (UK)
 * Trigger: Talk to Silky
 * Location: Park Gate
 * Chapter: 4
 * Picarats: 30

Description: The four children below were playing in a park when they suddenly realized they needed to go home. In their haste, however, they mixes up their coats! A: "I forgot my coat..." B: "Hey! A's name is written in this coat!" C: "Wait a minute. I didn't even bring my coat today, but I'm wearing one now!" D: "This definitely isn't my coat." So, who's wearing D's coat?


 * Hint 1: If you think rationally about whose coat each child is wearing, you should figure out the answer in no time. For example, you know that B is wearing A's coat, right?
 * Hint 2: A isn't wearing a coat. B is wearing A's coat. C is wearing a coat, even though he didn't bring one... but it's not A's. It's a little convoluted, but the answer's in there somewhere.
 * Hint 3: Since C didn't bring a coat, there are only three present: A's, B's, and D's. B is wearing A's coat, and D isn't wearing his own coat... Got it now?
 * Super Hint: The only coats you need to worry about are B's and D's. If you read all of the statements again, you should figure it out.

Puzzle 040

 * Name: Missing Tiles
 * Trigger: Try to move left
 * Location: Park Gate
 * Chapter: 40
 * Picarats: 40

Description: To open the door, place four numbered tiles on the blank space so that all the conditions set forth by the equations are fulfilled.


 * Hint 1: It's difficult to choose only four numbers. Just try plugging in different numbers.
 * Hint 2: Think of two sets of numbers that produce the same value when the numbers in one set are multiplied and the numbers in the other set are added together, and vice-versa.
 * Hint 3: The two numbers on each side of the equation should produce the same result when they're multiplied as when they're added together, so large numbers won't work.
 * Super Hint: When the solution to the top equation is six, the solution to the lower equation is five.