Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Why am I posting about this?

Hands down, best puzzle game on the DS (excluding the almighty Tetris and Picross [or some other elite puzzle game]).

This game contains a lot of mind-teasing puzzles and riddles. It’s nice to play this kind of game once in a while. There’s about 100++ puzzles in the game, and right now, I’m stuck at 40+. MY HEAD OMG.

from wikipedia:

Professor Layton and the Curious Village (レイトン教授と不思議な町, Reiton-kyōju to Fushigi na Machi^?) is an adventure game developed by Level-5 for the Nintendo DS, and is the first installment of the Professor Layton trilogy. It combines a traditional narrative with puzzle focused gameplay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Layton_and_the_Curious_Village

I suggest you get this game and enjoy the puzzles and riddles.

There’s a few riddles in this game that I like, and honestly, I tell you, I felt like an idiot when I found out the answers. Neh.

I’ll give you 2 from the game

1. Imagine a digital clock, a plain normal digital clock. How many times will the clock display three of more of the same number in a row over the course of one day?

In case you were wondering, the digital clock mentioned displays time on a 12-hour scale, not military time.

2. Ten candles stand burning in a dining room. A strong breeze blows in through an open window and extinguishes two of them. Checking back in on the candles later, you see that one more candle has gone out. To make sure no more flames go out, you shut the window. Assuming the wind doesn’t extinguish any more candles, how many candles do you have left in the end?

Answer? Continue reading!

The answers:

1. 34 times. Make sure you include combinations like 10:00 and 11:12. And since it asks for one day, so you need to count AM and also PM.

2. Three. The seven candles that manage to stay lit will melt down completely. The only candles that remain in the end are the three that are extinguished by the wind and therefore stay intact.

Huzzah!