Professor Layton and the Curious Village/Puzzles 101-120

Puzzle 101 - Hidden Puzzle

 * Name: Splitting It Up
 * Trigger: Tap the Big Column
 * Location: Market
 * Chapter: 3
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Description: You have a big wooden cube that's painted red on all six sides. After splitting the cube into smaller parts as shown below, you are left with 27 cubes identical in size but varying in the number of red sides per cube. How many of these 27 small cubes have just one of their six sides painted red?


 * Hint 1: Take another look at the picture. When this big cube is divided, which of the small cubes do you think will have one side painted? At the very least, the corner boxes won't fall into this category. Every corner box has three painted sides.
 * Hint 2: As stated in the previous hint, all the corner pieces of the big cube have three painted sides. Additionally, with the exception of corner boxes, all the small cubes that touch another face of the big cube have two painted sides.
 * Hint 3: As shown in the diagram, the only small cubes that have one side painted are the ones located in the dead center of each face of the big cube. Each face of the big cube has only one of these.

Answer: 6

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Puzzle 107 - Hidden Puzzle

 * Name: A Worm's Dream
 * Trigger: Tap the left Doorway
 * Location: Clock Tower
 * Chapter: 3
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Description: This worm's life dream is to make it to the center of the apple. Complete this slide puzzle and help him realize his dream! With only eight pieces to manage, this task might seem easy, but it's probably harder than you suspect.


 * Hint 1: This slide puzzle only has eight movable parts, so don't be intimidated. Take your time with it. If you aren't seeing much progress, try something new with each move. Don't get stuck moving pieces in the same pattern again and again.
 * Hint 2: Have you noticed that a few of the pieces look very similar to some others? Focus your attention on those.
 * Hint 3: If you are still having trouble, start by moving the piece in the upper-left corner out of its starting location. You can't finish the puzzle without doing so.

Answer: This puzzle is tricky to explain. It takes a lot of trial-and error to get the pieces in the correct places. The trick is to get all the corner pieces in the correct places first, so that the middle-edge pieces can slide in place from the middle.

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Puzzle 110 - Hidden Puzzle

 * Name: The Vanishing Cube
 * Trigger: Tap the Chandelier above Gordon's head
 * Location: Manor Parlor
 * Chapter: Between 1 and 2
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Description: On the table below are four cubes made up of matches. Can you change four cubes to three by moving a single match?


 * Hint 1: The matches are arranged so that they appear to form four adjoining cubes. How can you rearrange things to make one of these cubes disappear?
 * Hint 2: The four cubes appear to be arranged in two rows. The first row has one cube, and the row behind it has three. You need to get rid of the middle cube in the back row.
 * Hint 3: All you need to do is reposition one of the diagonal matches so that it points straight up and down. You have quite a few to choose from.

Answer: To solve this puzzle, you must get rid of the cube in the middle of the line of three cubes. Of the four matches that make up this middle cube, you will move the match that doesn't touch any other cube. Move this diagonal match so that it is straight up and down. It should connect the top right corner of the highest cube with the top right corner of the middle cube to form the right edge of the highest cube.

Puzzle 111 - Hidden Puzzle

 * Name: Mystery Item
 * Trigger: Tap the Restaurant's Sign
 * Location: Park Road
 * Chapter: 2
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Description: One of the four shapes below has one less match than the rest of them. While studying these four small shapes, your friend approaches you with a riddle. "I'm thinking of something that is necessary for human life. It appears in just about every house you've ever visited and decreases in amount gradually the longer it is around. What am I thinking of?" Move one match in the picture to form your answer to your friend's puzzle.


 * Hint 1: The item you are after is necessary for human life, is found in most homes, and disappears gradually over time. You have to answer with the matches provided, but don't worry about arranging them into a picture. It's the idea you're after.
 * Hint 2: The last of the four shapes seems to be missing a match. Someone must have made off with it to light the stove and get dinner ready. Say, are you getting hungry at all?
 * Hint 3: Have you heard the expression "three square meals a day"? Judging by the matches here, someone was trying to make a fourth but got full before finishing the task. By the way, have you noticed how much that final cluster of matches looks like an uppercase D?

Answer: Take the match making up the right edge of the left-most square and move it directly under the match making up the left edge of the left-most square. The matches should now make the word FOOD.

Puzzle 112 - Hidden Puzzle

 * Name: My Beloved
 * Trigger: Tap the Painting above Beatrice's head
 * Location: Inn
 * Chapter: 2
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Description: A work from a famous artist was recently discovered. The painting is a self-portrait of the painter in his later years and is entitled "My Beloved." Assuming the artist wasn't a huge narcissist and referring to himself, his beloved should appear in the painting somewhere. Can you find his beloved?


 * Hint 1: You're looking for an outline of the artist's lover. Yes, you read that correctly, search for her silhouette.
 * Hint 2: The black background of the portrait can be reconfigured to form the silhouette of a woman.
 * Hint 3: Rearrange the pieces of the painting to form a silhouette of a woman from the waist up.

Answer: Move the top left corner piece to the top-right corner slot. Move the new piece in the top left-corner to the bottom-left corner. Rotate the new piece in the top-left corner twice. Rotate the piece in the bottom-right corner twice. Do you see the lady? Hit SUBMIT

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Puzzle 118 - Hidden Puzzle

 * Name: Red and Black Cards
 * Trigger: Tap the bottom of the Bedside Window
 * Location: Town Hall
 * Chapter: 2
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Description: A jokerless deck of 52 cards sits on the table. The cards are shuffled thoroughly and divided into two stacks of 26 cards labeled A and B. If you divide the cards as described above and check the contents of each pile 1,000 times, how many times could you expect the number of red cards in one pile to match the number of black cards in the other?


 * Hint 1: How many red cards and black cards are there in a deck of 52 cards?
 * Hint 2: There are a total of 26 black cards and 26 red cards in a 52-card deck.
 * Hint 3: The number of red cards in pile A is equal to 26 minus the number of black cards in Pile A. You can also reverse this statement and apply it to the black cards, so....

Answer: 1,000

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