Puzzle No. 20
Picarats: 50



Draw a path between one man's home and his work by connecting matching blocks. The catch is that these met can't stand each other, so you have to make sure that one of the paths touch.

To make a path, all you need to do is tap a block and start drawing.















Hint One: You might think that this puzzle is impossible but rest assured, it's not. The first thing you should try to do is connect any pair of blocks. That will limit where your next path can go. B's route is shortest. Try enough times and you're sure to figure it out.

Hint Two: The path between the b blocks is a straight line D goes around to the north.

Hint Three: As stated earlier, connect the pair of b blocks with a straight line. Then connect the d blocks by drawing a path that arcs up over the b block path. A goes south then east.

Got it now?

Solution:













That's right! Now those guys don't even have to look at each other! Good job!

Puzzle No. 19
Picarats: 30



The Laytonmobile, the professor's pride and joy, is stuck behind several other cars trying to exit a crowded parking lot. Things are so tight, though, that each car can only move forward and backward with respect to the direction it's currently facing.

Use your stylus to direct traffic and guide the professor's red car to the exit.















Hint One: Just trying to clear the cars immediately in front of the professor's vehicle won't get you anywhere. Think about exactly what it is you'll need to do to clear a path to the lot exit.

Hint Two: Don't be afraid to take a step back to move ahead two steps. You may need to move some things into the way to get them out of the way in the end.

When you're moving cars around, be sure to keep in mind each car's directional imitation.

Hint Three: To start, you'll need to move the two cars directly in front of the Laytonmobile. In order to do that, you'll first need to move the horizontally oriented car that sits right above those two vehicles.

Once you've completed that task, move the Laytonmobile forward toward the exit. Then try to rearrange cars at the end of the lot opposite the exit.

Solution:





 Move the horizontal truck above the red car up.












 Move the vertical truck to the right of the red car up.











 Move the vertical truck to the right of the red car up.










 Move the red car right.












 Move the bottom left vertical truck up.











 Move the bottom left horizontal truck left.










 Move the bottom left horizontal truck left.












 Move the topmost vertical truck down.

Move the red car left.



 Move the right vertical truck down.











Move the top horizontal truck left.










 Move the vertical truck to the left of the red car up.










 Move the vertical truck to the left of the red car up.













 Move the red car to the exit.







Good job clearing out the traffic. If you used these steps, you solved the puzzle with the fewest number of steps!

Puzzle No. 18
Picarats: 10



As you can see, what we've got here is some trash and a dustpan made of matchsticks.

Can you move two matchsticks to change the picture so the dustpan is holding the trash?















Hint One: Can you see how the matchsticks form a dustpan? Notice that the scoop part is pointing up in the picture. To put the trash "in" the dustpan, you need to arrange the matches so that the trash is surrounded on three sides.

Hint Two: Let's just keep the match farthest to the left where it is. Keeping in mind that we need to surround the trash on three sides, the topmost match in the shape starts to look ripe for rearrangement, doesn't it? Now all you need to do is figure out which other match to move.

Hint Three: Move the match in the upper-right side of the dustpan and the match directly above the trash. It shouldn't be hard to determine where these need to go so that the dustpan looks like it's scooping up the trash.

Solution:















That's correct! Do your part to keep St. Mystere clean!

Puzzle No. 17
Picarats: 30


Three of the four images shown below are the exact same picture rotated in a variety of ways. Can you find the odd one out?















Hint One: The key to this puzzle is knowing where to look. The detail that distinguishes the one picture from the rest has something to do with the cards, that much is for sure. It's not the number of cards, though, because each picture has five cards.

Hint Two: Each card is marked with one of four suits, and each set of cards is oriented in a different direction. Try to track the relative shift in movement for every card in the picture.

Hint Three: Still stuck, huh? Here's a big hint. Look at how the cards are stacked on top of each other. Pay special attention to how each card overlaps with the middle card for your answer.

Solution:















Good job! This puzzle is fairly straightfoward, but catching the subtle difference in the picture can take a while.

Puzzle No. 016
Picarats: 40



Here are two shapes, one large and one small. Each is made up of little triangles. Dipping your fountain pen into the ink one time gives you just enough ink to draw four little triangles, as depicted by the shape on the left.

So, with that in mind, how many times do you have to dip your pen in the ink in order to draw the shape on the right that's made up of 36 triangles?














Hint One: To draw the smaller, four-triangle shape, you actually only need to draw three triangles. To see for yourself, trace the shape on the Touch Screen.

Notice how the middle triangle (Triangle 3) in this shape is actually made up of the sides of the other triangles?

Hint Two: The puzzle describes the shape on the left as made of four triangles. However, you could also say that this same shape is made of three upward-pointing triangles.

Try applying this way of thinking to the larger shape. Just how many triangles does it take to make this shape?

Hint Three: If you only count the number of upward-pointing triangles in the large triangle, you'll get a total of 21.

You can draw three upward-pointing triangles with one dip into the ink, so...


Solution:















That's correct!

Your first impulse might have been to divide the 36 triangles by four, but a closer look shows that each four-triangle cluster is actually formed from three triangles.

When you apply this way of thinking to the larger shape, you end up with the answer pictured above.