Part 34: The Puzzle Doctor's House

Professor Layton's Theme (Live Vers.)
hey its awesome and its even relevant and appropriate here!!





2. The last digit of the product is six.
3. The single-digit multiplier is three.

I dunno if I'd call this puzzle exactly hard or anything. Just... kind of weird and eh. It's a math thing, but it's just odd about it I guess.










3. Try squaring the individual digits of each number first.

Conversely, this one seems weirdly convoluted until you see the 20 -> 4 -> 16 part and realise what you're meant to do.






Puzzle 150 The Knight's Tour 4





2. The knights tour usually involves returning the knight to the starting space at the end of the tour. If you're trying to accomplish this, then choosing the correct starting space is very important. Why not use the Memo function to help you?
3. There are many avid chess researchers in Europe and the U.S. who write detailed papers with elegant solutions to chess puzzles. Looking through resources is on more way of enjoying a chess puzzle.

In theory, this could be a difficult puzzle for sure. It's fairly lengthy regardless but it's just so well known that the solution isn't a big mystery.




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3. You can make multiple answer keys that will all yield the same results. As long as you find one of these keys, you can solve this puzzle.

There's a couple possible ways of getting the solution. They all give the same answer in the end, though.










3. There were 12 people at the tournament. Now think through!

Simple algebraic equation for maximum number of games makes it really easy to figure out the answer here.






Puzzle 153 Ultimate Escape / The Diabolical Box



...The US version of this puzzle is identical but its name is The Diabolical Box. Way better, in my opinion.



1. The difficulty of this puzzle is truly diabolical! You just have to find ways to fit the blocks together to open up a little bit of space at a time.
2. You can't move the gem at all first. You should focus initially on making room for the gem to move. Here's one small hint: move the yellow vertical bar to the top half of the puzzle.
3. Here's your last hint. You never have to move the cross-shaped piece any farther right than the center of the puzzle. In other words, the gem has to move clockwise through the puzzle. Stick with it!

Yeah, uh, this is definitely a very difficult sliding puzzle. The video linked above is the optimal solution but it's not my original run for this LP. Oh no. That's this one.




Regardless of how bad my memory can be at times, with this one done as well that's all 153* puzzles in the base game done.



Unfortunately, we've also done all the DLC puzzles already too so, uh, that suggestion is nice but wasted!



Also Layton and Luke now take this moment to break the fourth wall.

It's clear that you possess an aptitude and passion for puzzle solving that is equal to my own.



This is your reward for solving all 153* puzzles. It's not really worth it, but there's some good stuff in there.

Indeed there has, Luke. That's a gift from us to our friend, the player. That's you!
You heard the professor. Have fun with those!

Yeah, so there's not much left for us to see here unfortunately. We've done every puzzle* and so we might as well check out what our 5500 Picarats give us.



To do that, we head into the Bonuses screen again but this time we are going to check out that Top Secret section.



Profiles and Art'll be in a bonus update later, since there's a lot in there. Music is hopefully self-explanatory as is Movies. Voice is just a random selection of voiced lines from throughout the game; there's no pattern or rhyme to what was chosen or anything.

But the Hidden Door is something we always have access to and it's... different. It's also something in Curious Village we never looked at, because we couldn't!



You see, you need that passcode from the top screen here to access the content in Curious Village. Now, it also has a password for this game so we should go get that.

Oh and I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that password is unique to each DS so you can't just copy this one and have it work. Annoying, really.



But let's put that one to use. That means we need to jump back to a Curious Village savefile that has beaten the main game at the very least.



The Hidden Door in Curious Village is just a password prompt. It's interesting how even with this games inception they were intending to make a second one. In an alternative universe, Layton never took off so this content was forever locked off because Pandora's Box was never made.



Once we put that password in, we get access to the password to use in Diabolical Box (which is, again, unique to each DS). We also get a blast from the past with those old portraits.

Indeed. From here, you can take a peek into the process of how we went from the page to the screen.
It's only a fraction of the material created for the game, but we do so hope you enjoy it!



Yeah, I'll just put this here since it's actually kind of interesting and there isn't much of it. Feel free to peruse at your own leisure.



















We look forward to seeing you for the next adventure in the Professor Layton series!

It's weird how that was written on the presumption you've only ever played Curious Village but you can't access this without beating Pandora's Box so...



Speaking of which, we'll head back to that now and take the password from the Concept Art gallery to input here.



We've got a special treat for you here that we hope you enjoy! Have fun!

Puzzle ??? A Curious Present



So, if we include this, the base game of Diabolical Box has 154 puzzles! This is your reward for finishing the first two Layton games...



1. This puzzle is a variation on the classic 15-piece slide puzzle you may have seen at your local toy shop. It's not a particularly difficult version of the puzzle, so relax, take your time with it... and have fun!

And it's a sliding puzzle. At least it's a fairly easy one, all things considered.

Random note, but despite the puzzle being documented reasonably well all over the internet at this point... the Hint is, for some reason, written down nowhere that I can find. Weird.




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This puzzle isn't included in your Puzzle Index, but you can come back here to solve it whenever you wish.
Have fun, and do enjoy the rest of your time playing Professor Layton and Pandora's Box.

Y-yes, the rest of my time playing Pandora's Box. Because there's stuff left after this.

...Well there is that other thing in the Hidden Door I guess. But that explicitly requires something we don't have yet.

That raises a question of its own, though. Where can we get a "Ticket to Time Travel"?

I suppose the only way is to go on a strange journey through time itself to potentially find a lost future...