Part 21: The Lost Amusement Park

[Music: About Town]





She starts to tell them something, but a sinister figure lurking in the shadows scares her off.



Well, we do need to get into the park and there's only one entrance. So let's ignore the one person who can help and wander off instead.



[Music: Puzzles]



3. Working from the ground up, you can deduce there are nine boxes on the first layer, six boxes on the second layer, four boxes on the third layer, and then one box that rests on the entire stack. That gives you a total of 20 boxes, which is how many the puzzle says you have. With all the boxes accounted for, all you need to do is figure out which of these hidden boxes are completely surrounded by other boxes on all sides.








: So hurry up and get settled! St Mystere is happy to have you!

In itself, this doesn't seem like much but let's take a look up on the top-screen and see just what we've achieved:



That's the 100th puzzle we've solved (discounting US exclusive ones)!





2. A 100m train travelling over a 400m bridge in 30 seconds. So you have to divide 400 by 30 right? Well, the train starts travelling over the bridge the moment the front of the train is on the bridge, and it finishes once the end of the train has moved off the bridge. How far has the train travelled in this time?
3. Can you see that the train must travel 500m in order to travel completely over the bridge? If so, the rest is easy. 500M is 0.5km. 30 seconds is 0.5 minutes.

I've heard some... rather weird ways to overthink this one, but it's really pretty simple.






No one tried anything more complex than the above here, though, which isn't too surprising at this point.





3. Using the principle in Hint Two and the information from Hint One, you can express the distance you drove as "one way plus 30 miles." With that said, the difference between the distance you drove and the distance your girlfriend drove should be clear as day.






This is a bit more confusing, but it's still not too convoluted. You don't even need to do that "one way" thing; just from the two values you're given, it should be more than enough to solve it:

code:

(180 + -150) - (-180 + 150) = (180 - 150) - (150 - 180) = 30 - -30 = 60

Well, that's how I'd do it anyway.





And now the one we need to actually do to advance the plot!



2. If you rotate the middle square 45 degrees, its corners will touch the sides of the large blue square. At the same time, notice that this rotation has made it so that the red square's corners now make contact with the middle square. Having trouble visualizing the rotation? Try drawing it on your screen.
3. From the rotation described in the second hint, draw two perpendicular lines from the outer circle through the middle to divide the squares into four quadrants. Do this and you'll see that the middle square's area is equal to half of the blue square's. Go and try if for yourself.






Well, that's that done. Time to finally get into the park!

[Music: Down the Tubes]



[Music: Silence]





[Music: The Village Awakens]

: There we are. The park is yours to explore now.
: Professor, we're in!
: Thank you. You've been a great help, sir.
: Ha ha ha! I hardly need thanking, sir. After all, this is me job. Way back when, I used to keep it open every day, but these villagers, they don't care at all for me park. I'm glad you fellows stopped by. It's the first time in a while I've had to do me job.

We're given the ability to enter manually at this point, but I get the feeling that choosing not to will make Luke yell at us so...

[Music: Deserted Amusement Park]



: It's just as Sylvain said. It seems that no one's set foot in this park for a dreadfully long time. Now, on to business. Let's give the grounds around the Ferris wheel a thorough once-over. I expect we'll find something of interest there.



Unlike what you might expect, the board doesn't actually have a puzzle. We'll check it out anyway, though!



: It looks like it's been posted here for ages. It's so faded, you can't even read the letters. Oh! Hey, isn't that... That's little Flora there in the middle of the picture, isn't it? She looks exactly as she does in the portrait we saw of her in Reinhold Manor.



: Strange, I wonder why it wasn't more popular with the village folk once it was opened to the public. Well, I son't suppose speculation will help us very much. Let's keep moving.
: Right you are, Professor.

We need to the get to the far-side of the park, where the ferris wheel is so we'll go clockwise to get there. It's quicker this way, you see.



: What a shame! I bet it used to be a fun place. There's even a big top, the kind you see at the circus.
: Yes, there is something quite sad about it, isn't there? How strange. This was clearly a travelling carnival, so why was it left to rot here in St Mystere?
: I bet the Ferris wheel is a mess too. I suppose I won't get to use that ride ticket we picked up.
: Well, we have better things to do than ride that thing, don't we? Somewhere in this park hides a clue to finding the Golden Apple. I'm sure of it.



Not much of a surprise that there's not much here either, but there is a puzzle this time.





Obviously, we're not doing it just now but it IS there.



: Luke, why don't you look around and see if anything seems odd about it.
: Will do, Professor!

: Did you find anything out of the ordinary, Luke?



: That remains to be seen. Let's look around a bit more, shall we?



Maybe a second look will prove useful, so let's examine the ferris wheel. Y'know, just in case.



: It makes me wonder if we have overlooked something important around the park. That reminds me. Luke, have you heard the wonderful puzzle about the Ferris wheel?



Well, at least we got an important bit of information out of this. There's still two bits of the park we haven't been to yet, so let's keep circling around clockwise.



: Interesting. It seems this shed pumps water to the sewer pipes. I feel this warrants a closer look.



: It doesn't appear that the door will open. Let's move on and explore the rest of the park, Luke.



There's nothing else here, unfortunately, so there's still one last place to check!



Hey, Sylvain's here. Guess he's got some work to do here after all. There's something a bit more important there first though...



: It appears to be a scrap of notepaper. Would you read it aloud for me?
: No problem, Professor. All right, let's see...



: She seems lonely, which is probably why the boss asked me to build an amusement park for her. Yep, it certainly looks like I've got my work cut out for me.
: The "Young Miss" mentioned here must be Flora. The whole park was built just for her! But I don't understand this other line. What's all this business about a secret in the village?



: But no matter what happens, I have to keep going and take care of her in the boss's place.
: The page ends there.
: Baron Reinhold sounds like he truly loved his daughter more than anything. Fate can be so cruel.

Now we're left with a choice of speaking with Sylvain or examining the trash in the leaning shack.

...That's not really much of a choice, now that I think about it.



: The sun's shining bright today, and I'm in fine spirits. Why not celebrate this weather with a puzzle? Let me tell you one of me favourites.



I'd have expected something of worth to come out of this. Sadly, no such luck so let's examine the pile of junk.





And that led nowhere either. There's nothing else to do, but we've been everywhere and examined everything of note so maybe if we head back to the ferris wheel we'll learn something now.



: So it seems... I suppose my intuition failed us this time, Luke. Come, let's head back to the heart of St Mystere and search for our next lead.

[Music: Silence]

When suddenly...


okay seriously watch this one i dont care if youve not bothered to watch any others you really, really must see this like no joke do it now




















[Music: Deserted Amusement Park]



: Wh-why would the Ferris wheel...
: Professor, look what happened to the shed!



: The Ferris wheel must have simply destroyed it.
: If we'd made a wrong step back there, we'd be rubble too! ...Oh, my.
: Mm...
: I think I've found something here, Professor! What could that be?



: This could well be an underground passage to the tower. We've got to take a look below. Come.
: I'm right behind you, Professor!

Hmm, nah. Let's just leave and see if there's anything worthwhile that doesn't involve sewers this time.



...Oh.






[Music: Escape! ~ Professor Layton's Theme]





1. You may think that all you have to do is add a few things up, but there's a trick to this problem that's easy to overlook. Think about the way Ferris wheels have to work. If two people catch the first ride of the day, how much time will pass before they get off the ride?
2. If the wheel has to stop promptly at 10:30, then the operator won't allow anyone on who can't get off the Ferris wheel by 10:30. So what does that mean? It means that when two passengers step out of their gondola at 10:30, all other gondolas on the Ferris wheel should be empty as well.
3. The first pair of people to board the Ferris wheel at 10:00 will get off the ride 10 minutes later. Since the ride itself takes 10 minutes, no one will get off until 10:10. Then, from 10:10 until shutdown at 10:00, people will get off the ride at a rate of two per minute. Calculate the number of people coming off the ride and you'll have your answer, but be careful, because it's easy to make a mistake.





1. The total rise in water level each day is 40cm, just as the puzzle says. But if you think about it, isn't there an important point missing? Yes, you're on the right track now.
2. In 8 hours starting at 9am - in other words until 5pm - water enters the tank and the water level rises by 60cm. For the next 16 hours water leaks out of the tank, bringing the water level down by 20cm.





1. "You can't reach the bottom of the hole, so how about trying to find some tool that can," you say? No, no, that's not the way. Is there some way you can get the ball to come to the mouth of the hole?

I'd say this one was the easiest we've seen in a while, but... well, you'll see.





1. Each side of a box is in direct contact with four others. Pay attention to how each side connects to four other sides of the cube and in what arrangement. Do this for other sides of the cube and you'll find an inconsistency that differentiates the odd cube out.
2. From what you can see in boxes A and C, you know that the star is connected to the square, sun, heart, and diamond. It doesn't touch the X. According to boxes B and D, the X touches the sun, heart, square, and diamond. Hey, wait a second! There's something fishy about one of those arrangements!





1. There are 51 numbers you can choose from, but since you're trying to get the largest total possible, you might want to try the bigger numbers first.