Professor Layton and the Curious Village/Puzzles 51-75: Difference between revisions

'''Description''': Somebody ate the butcher's sausages! Here's what these four boys have to say:

:Name: The Sound of Silence

:Trigger: Talk to Percy

:Location: Plaza

:Chapter: 6

:Picarats: 40

'''Description''': Which of these words doesn't make the sound of silence?

Note, Rhythm, Rest, Treble, Chord, Scale

*'''Hint 1''': When you see a group of words that have a similar theme, it's easy to get hung up on their meaning. Instead,look for other ways to interpret the question asked of you.  For example, other than a very literal definition what else could "the sound of silence" be referring to?

*'''Hint 2''': Read each word out loud and pay attention to how they differ from each other. In particular, think about how each word is pronounced.

*'''Hint 3''': Still Stuck? Think about what letters aren't pronounced.

'''Answer''': Circle Rest and hit SUBMIT

:Name: How Many Squares?

:Trigger: Talk to Rodney

:Location: Town Hall

:Chapter: 6

:Picarats: 40

'''Description''': This board has 12 dots on it.  Your task is to connect these dots to form as many squares as possible.  You can use each dot multiple times, and you can orient the squares however you wish to fit them on the board.  However, to be counted as a square, each corner must be on a dot.  How many different squares can be drawn on the board?

*'''Hint 1''': You can use a given dot as many times as you like and can orient the squares however you need to to fit them on the board.  In other words, you're going to reuse dots, and you should be on the look out for a few diagonally oriented squares.

*'''Hint 2''': There are three different sizes of squares that you can make on the board.  You shouldn't have much trouble finding the smallest squares.  There are five in total.

*'''Hint 3''': All four of the medium-sized squares are tilted 45 degrees.  Can you see them on the board?  Now that you have the above information, all that's left for you to do is find the biggest type of square.  when you know how many of these are on the board, you'll be done!

'''Answer''': 11

:Name: A Broken Window

:Trigger: Talk to Agnes

:Location: Market

:Chapter: Between 5 and 6

:Picarats: 30

'''Description''': Four kids were playing, and one of them threw a ball right through your window.  Here's what they had to say for themselves.  A:"Not me! Id didn't break a thing!"  B: "Okay, I'll tell the truth.  It was me.  I broke it."  C: "Don't be mad at A! He didn't do anything!"  D: "B didn't break the glass, I swear."  You know for a fact that the scamp who broke your window is lying.  However, an unknown number of the other children may be lying as well.  Can you figure out which one of these darned kids broke your window?

*'''Hint 1''': This one's sort of a pain, isn't it?  The kid who broke the window is certainly lying, bu you can't forget that a number of the other children might be lying as well.  Keep that in mind as you solve this puzzle.

*'''Hint 2''': We've already established that the child who actually broke the window lied.  Therefore, the child who broke the window must have denied breaking the window when confronted.  In other words, B couldn't have broken the window, and D must be telling the truth about B.  By the way, D didn't do it either.

*'''Hint 3''': If what A said is true, then C must also be telling the truth.  That would mean we had four honest children on our hands, which we know to be false.  Either A or C had to have broken the window.

'''Answer''': A

:Name: The Wire Cube

:Trigger: Talk to Agnes

:Location: Market

:Chapter: Between 5 and 6

:Picarats: 40

'''Description''': You want to create a cube out of metal wiring using the fewest number of wires possible.  You can bend each wire as many times as you like, but no portion of the cube can have more than one length of wire running over the same edge.  Don't worry about how one wire will connect to the next, because you'll use a soldering iron later on.  What is the fewest number of wires required to complete the task described above?

*'''Hint 1''': Think about a corner of a cube and how many lines meet at that point.

*'''Hint 2''': Three lines meet at each corner on a cube. Imagine a corner where a single wire forms two of the three lines.  The final line in this corner must come from the end of a different wire.  Therefore, in every corner, at least one of the three lines comes from the end of a wire. 

*'''Hint 3''': There are eight corners to a cube.  As discussed earlier, every corner in a cube requires at least one end of a wire.  Each wire has two ends, right?