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professor Laton puzzle 20 Unfriendly Neighbours

Solution: see photo attached.
The key is to draw the lines for A and C going through the bottom of the map.

professor Layton puzzle 5 Digital Digits

This is a tricky puzzle: Digital Digits (the one about clocks). The correct answer is: 34

You've figured out for sure:
01:11, 02:22, 03:33, 04:44, 05:55 and 10:00, 11:10, 11:11, 11:12, 11:13, 11:14, 11:15, 11:16, 11:17, 11:18, 11:19. => 16 combinations. And you have to count them twice as the puzzle asks you for all the combinations appearing during a day => 32 combinations.

The trick is that this is a 12-hour clock and "The indication of noon and midnight in the 12-hour system is disputed." (check Wikipedia). Looks like Layton's 12-hour clock displays the noun and midnight as being 12:00 and not 00:00 => 12:22 combination exists and appears twice.

32 + 2 (twice 12:22) = 34

Professor Layton: GECY NW puzzle

For the GECY NW puzzle from Professor Layton and the Curios City, here is the solution:
GECY NW = TEXT ME

OLD: Finally, I found the solution. But honestly it has no reason! Because if somebody does a typo, he will use the same pattern for the following mistake. If you type a lot of time using a keyword (which everybody does in this era) your hands work magically without you looking and if you miss one key with one button to the left than all the text is going to be one left-key mistake.

UPDATE: Brittany is right: looking carefully at the chocolate bits, you can find the answer:

- 1. missing chunk up letter G => (check keyboard the letter on top G) => T
- 2. no missing chunk on letter E => E
- 3. missing chunk left letter C => X
- 4. missing chunk left Y => T
... and so on ===> GECY NW = TEXT ME



This is awsome, Brittany!!! How long did it take you?

professor layton and the curios village

I don't like Nintendo games at all. Especially not those shooter games, those dress me up, color-me and how pretty I can jump through the grass fields games. Yacht! I've bought my DS Lite only for the Brain Age Training, but after 2 weeks I was totally, fully bored. There is nothing pleasent in receiving more difficult words to figure out and such a black-white front-end. I am a human from the TV era! I need color and not monochromatics.

It's my fully pleasure to announce the best game on DS: Proffesor Layton and the Curios Village: http://professorlaytonds.com/. It's really great:
- nice story (no monsters or crazy shooters)
- fully colored
- great usability (could improve): the long click though dialogs are substituted by cartoons movie with real actor voices. Bright idea! I hate when I have to read what one character is saying then click next, then read what the next character is saying and so on... It's waisting my time and I might get RSI... Bravo, Layton team!
- great game goal: solve as many puzzles as possible!!! Everybody has the human instinct to prove himself and to learn in the same time. Puzzles are a great solution for this.

There are a lot of puzzles on net, but nobody put them all together in such a nice story like Professor Layton team.

I'm looking forward to the next 2 games within the serie:
- "Professor Layton and The Devil's Box"
- "Professor Layton and The Final Time Journey"
Sadly, they are not in english yet :((

For The Devil's Box, the Japan-only "Level-5 Premium Silver/Gold" collections on Nintendo DS included an exclusive side-story, "Professor Layton and the Holiday in London" (レイトン教授とロンドンの休日, "Professor Layton and the Holiday in London"?) in addition to the actual game and another Level-5 game, Inazuma Eleven. The Holiday in London includes ten puzzles, some of which are from the first game, and a short storyline, set in Professor Layton's London office, in which he reminisces about his previous adventures around the world.