hisapprentice: (so. bored.)
Luke Triton ([personal profile] hisapprentice) wrote2012-02-06 01:43 pm

[Puzzle 004]

[A dejected little boy young gentleman in blue sits in the library today at a table, journal open off to the side. In front of him is a book with a red cover, full of intermediate-level puzzles and riddles. There's a piece of paper beside it, on which he solves most of them - if they require paper.

There are a few interesting ones copied down into the journal, for reference later.

YYHLYEYT?
6L=12 6S=18 6LS=?
Meanwhile...


After a while, Luke sighs in a most ungentlemanly way.]


I wish I knew why this book feels so important. [the sound of ruffling pages] Maybe if Professor Layton were here he-

[Luke cuts himself off almost sharply, closing the puzzle book and doodling a few little pictures of fish and mice instead. One of the little mice wears a tall top hat.]

I wish I could go home.


mikanchibi: (uh.  well.)

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[personal profile] mikanchibi 2012-02-09 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
A lot less. [MmmmMMMMmmm now she's intrigued.]

D'you mind if I try?
mikanchibi: (stubborn)

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[personal profile] mikanchibi 2012-02-10 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[Hnnn she can do this. Don't mind the tip of her tongue sticking out while she starts scrawling on this page. One small pipe takes three hours, one large takes two, so

6S/18 6L/12

1L=1.5S

18->S 1+1.5??

18/2.5
7.2

dot dot dot...]


Seven hours and 12 minutes.
mikanchibi: (cheerful)

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[personal profile] mikanchibi 2012-02-11 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Eheh, thanks! [She beams.] I've always been good with math.
mikanchibi: (:o?)

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[personal profile] mikanchibi 2012-02-15 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What kind of puzzles do you like then?
mikanchibi: (smiiile)

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[personal profile] mikanchibi 2012-02-15 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Food puzzles? I bet you'd get on well with Sanji, then. He knows all kinds of food.
mikanchibi: (|D)

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[personal profile] mikanchibi 2012-02-15 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
So what sort of puzzle, then? Give me an example.