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This is a gameblog following my progress through the Nintendo DS game, Professor Layton and the Specter's Flute. Mostly I'm transcribing puzzles so I can use machine translation (Google Translate) to help me better comprehend what the puzzles are actually asking.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Eternal Diva

The whole reason why I bought and played Specter's Flute was so I would have a good grounding of characters and story points and could watch the Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva movie, despite lack of subtitles, and still get the main plot.
Anyway, I saw Eternal Diva tonight, and it was great fun. I've written about it in my Livejournal (warning: spoilers) if you are interested.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Puzzle 045: Cafe Sign

ナゾ045 カフェの看板
お店の看板が裏返っている。
9つに分割されているその看板は、
1枚のパネルをひっくり返すと、
その周りのあるパネルもう一緒に
ひっくり返る仕組みのようだ。
看板をタッチでひっくり返して、
全て表向きにしてほしい。

Google Translate
Has turned over the sign shop. 9 signs that have been split into two, one and turn the panels, seems to be upset with how some of the other panels around it. Touch the sign upside down, all I want to keep up.

Notes on Puzzle
You're given a wooden panel broken into a 3x3 grid. Initially the panel pieces are all plain wood; you need to flip each piece over to show the full Cafe signage. Tapping any given piece will flip multiple pieces; you have to keep tapping until the full sign (blue background with flowers and tea pot/cup) is showing.

Puzzle 044: 5 Portraits

ナゾ044 5枚の肖像画
親子5代、5枚の肖像画がある。
初代と2代目、2代目と3代目のように
直属の父とその息子は、まゆ毛、目、
鼻、口のうち、1ヵ所だけがそっくりな
顔をしているそうだ。

親子同士が隣り合うよう、5枚の
肖像画を初代から順に並べて欲しい。

Google Translate
Parents 5 generations, there are portraits of five copies. First and second generation, two generations eyes and the father of three sons and their direct reports as the second generation, eyebrows, eyes, nose, out of the mouth, but one look so alike that only places. Adjacent to each other as parents may want to sort the cards in order from the original portrait.

Notes on Puzzle
You're given 5 portraits. The first portrait is fixed in the #1 position. You have to arrange the other portraits in 2 to 5 order. The portraits are successive generations in a family; during any two generations only one trait (eyes, eyebrows, nose or mouth) stays the same.

Puzzle 043: The Armor Prank

ナゾ043 鎧で悪ふざけ
この中に飾ってあった鎧を着込んで遊んで
いた者がいる。
しかも、鎧を着ているときにつまずいて
頭の部分をへこませてしまったらしい。
犯人はこの中にいるようなのだが、
いったい誰が犯人だろう?

Google Translate
Who were playing in the armor was dressed in this headline. And guess I will pull the head and tripped while wearing armor. It seems that the culprit is in this, who exactly will be the culprit?

Notes on Puzzle
You are given a picture of full-body armor and four suspects. One of them wore the armor as a prank, but then tripped and hit his head. You have to figure who.

Puzzle 042: Long Hand and Short Hand

ナゾ042 長針と短針
1時11分のように同じ数字が連続して
3つ並ぶ時刻は、24時間のうちに
たくさんあるよね。
では、その時刻のうちで、短針から時計
まわりに長針まではかった角度が
もっとも大きいのは、何時何分だろう?
数字が3つ並んだ時刻を答えて欲しい。
ただし、0時00分は除く。

Google Translate
1:11 consecutive numbers along the same time as three one-minute, 24 hours It's just one of many. In, the time of its greatest angle of Hakatta until the minute hand clockwise from the hour hand, minute what time is it? I want answers to three times the number aligned one. However, except for 0:00.

Notes on Puzzle
You need an analog clock for this puzzle. You need to figure out what time gives the greatest angle between the long (minute) and short (hour) hands of a clock. The restriction is that three numbers must be the same and consecutive, ie 1:11 or 2:22.
Note that Japan uses 24 hour notation, so times like 13:33 are also valid.

Puzzle 041: Show the Star

ナゾ041 星を見るには
太陽観察のため目に悪くないどういう
色ガラスを2枚制作した。
その色ガラスを使って太陽を観測する
ことができたのだが、この色ガラス
2枚を使えば太陽だけでなく星も見る
ことができるという。
さて、この2枚の色ガラスを使って
できる限り大きな星を見たいのだが、
いったいどうせればいいだろう?

Google Translate
Not bad for what color of glass to produce two pieces of the observation of the sun. But was able to observe the sun with its colored glass, colored glass that these two stars can be seen not only sun and you can use the cards. Now, I want to see these two stars are possible using large sheets of colored glass, you'd be good on?

Notes on Puzzle
You are given two pieces of colored glass (one blue, one yellow). You must arrange them to show a star. You can move and rotate each pane separately.

Puzzle 040: Fill the Reservoir

ナゾ040 満タンの貯水池
この貯水池では4台のポンプを使って
湖の水を貯水池に移している。
その4台は1台で運転したときに、それ
ぞれが3日、6日、10日、15日で
貯水池を満杯にする能力があるという。
この4台のどれかと同じポンプを、
もう1台追加して、丸1日で貯水池を
ちょうど満杯にしたい。
どのポンプを追加すればよいのだろう?

Google Translate
This reservoir has four water reservoirs are moving into the lake with a single pump. When one of its four operating units are units, each 3, 6, 10, 15 that have the ability to fill the reservoir in the day. This same pump was one of four units, and add another one, just fill the reservoir to round one day. Wonder how do I add a pump?

Notes on Puzzle
You need to fill a reservoir with water. You have four pumps. One pump will fill the reservoir in 3 days; one in 6 days; one in 10 days; one in 15 days. If you want to fill the reservoir in 1 day, you could turn on all the pumps at the same time, but you need one more pump to do it. Is a 3-day pump, 6-day pump, 10-day pump or 15-day pump?