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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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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.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Puzzle 036: Feeding Time

ナゾ036 エサの時間
庭の檻でペットを飼っている人がいる。
毎日他の誰にもさわらせないほど
かわいがっているが、エサの時間に
なると2階へ言ったきり、なかなか
降りてこない。エサやりを誰がに
頼んでいるわけでもなく、2階から
エサを投げ出すこともしていない。
さて、この人のペットとはなんだろう?
カタカナ3文字で答えてね。

Google Translate
Some people keep pets in a cage in the garden. Ramo Sawa is not a pet to anyone other than daily, and said it is time for cutting the food into two floors, there is no hard exit. It's not even a spear who are asking the food, the two can not throw out the food from the floor. Well, this person will be allowed and what? I answered in three katakana characters.

Notes on Puzzle
This puzzle describes the feeding schedule of this one person and their pet: every day the person climbs up to the 2nd floor in order to feed the pet. The person is not dropping or throwing the food. What kind of pet needs its owner to go to the 2nd floor just to feed it? The answer uses 3 katakana. My dictionary gave 2 3-katakana possibilities for this animal. To my chagrin, I chose the wrong one to answer the first time. Oh well.

Puzzle 034: Apple Baskets

ナゾ034 カゴの中のりんご
大中小3つのカゴがあり、木には5つの
リンゴが実っている。これから収穫を始
めるのだが、小さなカゴより中くらいの
カゴに多くのリンゴを入れ、中くらいの
カゴより大きなカゴにより多くのリンゴ
が入るようにリンゴを分配したい。
それぞれのカゴには最低1個のリンゴを
入れなければならない。
いったい、どうしたらいいだろうか?

Google Translate
3 large and small in one basket, which grew to five apple trees in one. But now begin the harvest, put the apple in the basket medium than many small basket, you want to share a lot of apples to apples into a large basket from the basket medium. At least one in each basket should be put under the apples. Who would I do?

Notes on Puzzle
You are given three baskets of different sizes, and 5 apples. You have to figure out arrange the apples so the large-sized basket has more apples than the middle-sized basket, which has more apples than the smallest basket. Each basket must have at least one apple. You can move both apples and baskets around.

Puzzle 031: Growing Paper

ナゾ031 紙で育つ
それあ最初、指先ほどの大きさだった。
しかし私が紙を与えると、それはみる
みるうちに大きく育っていった。
怖くなた私が何も与えないでいると
次第に小さくなっていき、やがてその
姿を消してしまい、二度と現れることは
なかった。
私が何を育てていたのかわかるかい?
ひらがな1の文字で答えてごらん。

Google Translate
Oh first it was the size of a fingertip. I give the paper, but it went out Mirumiru growing larger. Iki has been reduced gradually 怖Kunata not give me anything, it eventually disappeared away, it did not appear again. Kai know what I was raised what? Look one answer hiragana characters.

Notes on Puzzle
The image is of some kids sitting around talking; there is a pile of paper and books in the center of them. You have to figure out how the paper can act in a certain way: At first it was very small (the size of a fingertip), then it grew large, then it shrank and disappeared, and it did not appear again. The answer is a single hiragana.

Puzzle 028: Black Cats and White Cats

ナゾ028 黒い猫と白い猫
黒猫と白猫の置物を縦横4列に並べておきたい。ただし、縦の列にも横の列にも3匹以上続けて同じ色の猫が並んではならない。すでに置いである猫の置物を参考に全ての猫の配置を当ててごらん。マス目にタッチすると猫の絵が切り替わるよ。

Google Translate
Aspect a black cat and white cat figurines arranged in four columns you want. However, even in the next column along three vertical columns of the same color as the cat or cats must not continue. Take a guess the placement of all cat figurine cat referring to the place already. I switch to touch the cat picture grid.

Notes on Puzzle
You are given a 4x4 grid. You can place either black or white cats in each square of the grid. You cannot have more than 2 cats of the same color together in any row or column. By tapping on a square, you can change it from a blank square to a black or white cat. Some squares are already pre-set and cannot be changed.

Puzzle 023: The Broken Clock

ナゾ023 壊れた時計
時間が止まった時計をはずそうと
壁から降ろしたところ、うっかり
手が滑って落としてしまった。
落とした衝撃で時計盤は中心を通って
まっぷたつに割れた。
よく見ると、それぞれ割れた文字盤内
に書いてある数字を足した合計が
等しくなっている。
どのように割れた河川を描いてほしい。

Google Translate
Hazusou lowered from the wall where the clock stopped and time, had accidentally dropped a hand slipped. Watch the impact panel is cracked right in half fell through the center. If you look closely, is equal to the total sum of the numbers written in broken numerals, respectively. I want to draw a river split it?

Notes on Puzzle
A clock has fallen and broken into two. When you sum the numbers on both halves of the clock face, they come out to the same total. You have to draw a line across the clock face showing where the two halves must have broken for this condition to be met. A basic math/counting problem.

Puzzle 022: Stationary with a Hole

ナゾ022 穴のある便せん
ホテルの部屋には宿泊客用に便せん
が置いていることがある。
誰かがこの便せんに、イタズラで
穴を開けたようだ。
この穴あきの便せんをまったく同じ形
の2枚に切り分けてほしい。
便せんに書かれたマス目は正方形だ。
同じ形になれば、片方が裏返しで
あってもよいことにする。

Google Translate
Hotel room that has a place for guests to Stationery. Someone in this Stationery seems to open a hole in the crank. Stationery in exactly the same shape I want to isolate the two perforated sheets. Stationery is a written grid square. If the same form, it may even reverse to the other.

Notes on Puzzle
Some mean person has cut a hole out of the hotel stationary! You have to cut the paper into two pieces so that the pieces are the same shape. The paper is marked with a grid, so you just mark where on the grid to cut. The hole is small (only 2 squares in the grid) so cutting it is pretty straightforward.

Puzzle 017: The Same Doll?

ナゾ017 同じ人形は?
ここに人形が4体ある。
一見しただけでは、とてもそうは見え
ないのだがA,B,Cのうち1体は、
左橋の人形とまったく同じ人形らしい。

左端の人形と同じ人形はどれだろう。
ABCの中から選んでほしい。

Google Translate
Here are four figures in the body. At first glance, but do not see very A, B, C, out of one body is exactly the figure of the bridge 人形Rashii left.
Dolls and doll on the left will be much the same. ABC wants to pick from.

Notes on Puzzle
You are given one doll. There are three other dolls; one of them is the same as the first. You have to choose the doll which is the same based on visual cues including color of gloves and stockings and style of dress.

Puzzle 013: Water Fetching Relay

ナゾ013 水くみリレー
水くみ場が2つある公園がある。
今からのバケツ2個を持ち*の所から
出発して、それぞれの水くみ場で水を
1杯分ずつくんで、なるべく早く
戻ってきたい。
同じ道は2度と通らないとすると、
どのようなコースで行けばいいだろう?
通路に線を引いて答えてほしい。

Google Translate
Fetching water park is a place in two ways. Now have two pieces from the bucket * to depart from the place of drawing water in place of water in each cup one-kun, on coming back as soon as possible. You do not pass through the same road with two degrees, courses will I be like? I want to draw a line in the corridor answer.

Notes on Puzzle
Find the shortest route through a maze, where you need to stop at two fountains (marked with an “X”) to fill your bucket. You cannot cross the same part of the path twice. The start and end is the same place, so it's a big loop.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Puzzle 008: In the Mirrors

ナゾ008 鏡の間
ある部屋に迷い込んだところ、そこは
14枚の両面鏡が置かれている不思議な
部屋だった。
床の上に「次に進むべき方法はもっと
大きな矢印が教える。」と書かれたメモ
とレーザーポインタが置かれており、
床に小さな矢印が書かれていた。
次に進むべき道はA~Dのどこだろう。

Google Translate
I wandered into a room, there was a strange night that 14 had been placed in the single-sided mirror. On the floor "and then teaches how the arrows should go bigger." Laser pointer has been placed and written notes and had written a small arrow on the floor. A ~ D will be the next way to go anywhere.

Notes on Puzzle
You're given an arrangement of mirrors, and a laser light source. When the laser bounces off the mirrors, it sketches out an arrow, which points in one of the four cardinal directions. A fairly straightforward puzzle, as long as you're used to drawing light paths bouncing off mirrors.

Puzzle 006: Post Box Panel

ナゾ006 ポストのパネル
ポストを開いたときに、側面から
パネルがはがれ落ちてしまった。
パネルで”POST”と書かれていた
ようなのだが、どう並べたら元通り
の形に戻るのかわからない。
パネルを並べ替えて元の形に戻そう。

Google Translate
When you open the post and fell from the side panels come off. Panel "POST" but as it had been written and I'm not sure if 並Betara restored back into shape.
Sort and get back to its original form the panel.

Notes on Puzzle
You bad person, you. You just knocked off the fancy lettering on Clark's mailbox! Now you have to put it back together. Having just tackled the luggage-in-a-cart puzzle, this isn't very different, except you don't need to rotate any pieces, and there will be blank spots in the panel that spell out the word "POST".

Puzzle 004: Reload the Luggage

ナゾ004 荷物の積み直し
急いで荷物を積み込んできたから
バランスが悪くて崩れてしまったの。
どうしたら荷物をすき間なく積み込め
るのかしら。
お願いのお願いよ。
荷物の積み込みを手伝ってほしいの。

Google Translate
The collapse had been due to poor balance of carrying luggage from the rush. I wonder do 積Mi込Meru no space between the luggage. Please ask for it. I would like to help with the loading of luggage.

Notes on Puzzle
This puzzle is given to you by a lady whose cart has tipped and dropped all her luggage on the ground. She has a habit of repeating her words when she talks (hence the "Onegai no onegai yo.") You need to rearrange her luggage so it all fits in a neat grid. In this puzzle you need to rotate some of the pieces so they fit.
I only wish my own luggage came in neat squares for packing.