[Puzzle 003]

[hisapprentice]

Does anyone want to help celebrate the new year with a puzzle? I made it up myself!

Which of these shapes can't be drawn without picking your pen up from the page or retracing any lines?



It's okay if you cross over a line you already made, but if you've got it all right you shouldn't need to.

Don't tell anyone else your answer! I'm not going to give it away to everyone either.

[meanwhile he still needs things like a real place to live and such. Does that matter in the face of puzzles? ...Well, yes, actually. Luke's a fan, but not a maniac. He just doesn't know anyone well enough to think of living with them, or asking. Or...anything.

He will be at Seventh Heaven, chowing down for dinner. Boy can eat half a menu when he's hungry.]

Comments

[ voice ]

[makeitquick]

[STILL TRACING AND NOT GETTING IT SO-]

Hit me.

[Voice]

[blessedbyfarore]

Huh... that's pretty neat! [He grins.] What other puzzles do you know? I collect some of them, now! Things like these. [Holding it up to the journal, now.]

[written]

[mythbuster]

[True for many things in life.]

I'll give you a different type of puzzle.

One day, a man walks out of his house and eventually comes upon this strange message:

He takes one look at it before performing one confident action. What does he do?

written;

[ex_affability656]

[And that, my friends, is why you should not write tags after midnight when you're sick.]

Well, it's pretty impressive work. I'm no puzzle expert, but I believe the answer is B.

Written

[antlioncyclone]

[.........

Response: a page full of those shapes, drawn in various ways. Starting in on a second page.

Give him a minute.]

[Written]

[failguardian]

Great! I knew that's the trick! [C'monnnn ask her about her brilliant discovery!]

[Written]

[hisapprentice]

You did? All right then, what is it?

[written]

[hisapprentice]

Hmm...

He pulls open the door!

written;

[hisapprentice]

Then you're a really good guesser, sir.

Written

[hisapprentice]

[wow you are putting in so much effort.

Waiting.]

written;

[ex_affability656]

Is that so? Well, I'm glad to hear it. Do make up a lot of puzzles just for fun?

[That's a pretty neat hobby, yo.]

[Written]

[failguardian]

It's not symmetrical! [That last word is underlined a few times. If Anise knew about emoticons, you'll probably get a bunch of :DDDDDDDD ]

Written

[antlioncyclone]

[brute-forcing all the shit.

eventually;]

B?

Written

[hisapprentice]

That's right. You really did a lot of work on it.

Voice

[hisapprentice]

All right!

[This part is written.]

[hisapprentice]

[But Iria do you not realize puzzles can save a man? A village? A capital city?]

What do you do?

[ voice ]

[hisapprentice]

Great! See if you can make the proper hamburger by following these instructions. It has five layers between the buns - meat, tomato, lettuce, cheese, and mayonnaise:

- The meat goes above the mayonnaise.
- The only ingredient between the meat and the tomato is the lettuce.
- The cheese touches the bun.
- Neither the meat nor the lettuce is in the exact middle.

What's the right order of the layers of this hamburger?

[voiced]

[hisapprentice]

I don't know exactly how old he is. He might be in his sixties.

written;

[hisapprentice]

Most of the time I make them up to see if I can stump Professor Layton.

It doesn't usually work.

[Written]

[hisapprentice]

Yes it [Why argue? Why tell her the first shape isn't symmetrical?]

Do you like puzzles?

[Voice]

[hisapprentice]

What's that? [He's seen similar things before, the horseshoes are throwing him.]

I know a lot of puzzles. That's what happens when you're Layton's apprentice. [/PROUD]

[voiced]

[rollypolyclover]

So he's three time as old as the Layton guy. Ohhh, three times the Laytons! Three times the daddy aged people!!

[voiced]

[hisapprentice]

["Daddy aged" sounds so weird. Luke hasn't thought much about his father's age.]

Um...I suppose.

[ruinedhiswish]

_{[not where she comes from. also you're talking to someone who never even went to school]}

Ah, things like working for the guild, fighting monsters, running away, defeating bad people...

[hisapprentice]

Monsters? [/SKEPTICAL.]

Are you sure they were real monsters?