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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2011-01-29 11:38 am

Like A Water Balloon Filled With Rage.

(EDIT: My brother has shown me that I am in fact in the wrong. I am a fool, and I apologise to Professor Layton for casting aspersions on his puzzle expertise.)

DEAR PROFESSOR LAYTON:

NO. AN ANALOGUE CLOCK'S HOUR AND MINUTE HANDS DO NOT PASS OVER EACH OTHER TEN TIMES BETWEEN TWELVE NOON AND TWELVE MIDNIGHT; THEY PASS OVER EACH OTHER ELEVEN TIMES. YOU SAY 'THEY START AND END ON TOP OF EACH OTHER SO TWO OF THE TWELVE HOURS DON'T COUNT', BUT TWELVE TO TWELVE INCLUSIVE IS THIRTEEN HOURS.

YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PUZZLE EXPERT AND I WANT MY PICARATS BACK.

I'm enraged by this silly puzzle in a silly DS game to such an extent that it's actually sort of hilarious. Seriously, though, if you're going to make a game based entirely on puzzles, you really do need to make sure that all the puzzles are correct.

(The American version of Professor Layton and the Curious Village has a different puzzle featuring a digital clock, apparently. I HOPE IT IS A LESS RAGE-INDUCING ONE.)

It's a good game! I am just smarting at the injustice of it all.

(And then I stumbled across this wonderfully silly piece of dialogue and I forgave everything:

Stallholder: You want to take some sausages home with you? These are some links you don't want to be missing!
Layton: No, thank you.
Stallholder: Too bad! Not to bust your 'chops' or anything, but the deal was a one-time offer! Maybe you would've said yes if you'd known what was at 'steak'! Har har har har!
Layton: I think we're done here, Luke.
Luke: I couldn't agree more, Professor.)


A couple of nights ago, I dreamt that Jimmy Carr was almost run over by a car.

In the ocean. The ship he had been in with Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell and Richard Hammond had sunk, and they were all treading water, and the car came CHARGING TOWARDS HIM OVER THE WAVES.

Hammond managed to barrel it out of the way before it hit him.

I'm just posting this because I'm amused by the Carr-car thing.

[identity profile] dots.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
If I'm remembering/guessing right, the American version is something like "in a 12 hour period, how many times will at least 3 of the numbers on a digital clock be the same" i.e. 12:22, 11:11, 3:33, etc. I would assume that's the one that replaced yours.

[identity profile] dots.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I remember, there are no flagrant errors, only "oh, I forgot 11:12 to 11:19 counted, whoops" sorts of feelings, which Professor Layton has everywhere!

I do seem to remember some issues with the letter recognition, but I also had problems whenever I tried to write the numbers 4 or 6 that it would recognize them as something else, so maybe my handwriting just doesn't translate well to a DS screen.
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[personal profile] marginaliana 2011-01-29 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahahaha, having just a couple of weeks ago participated in a giant puzzle weekend thing, I so very much feel your pain about puzzles with slightly wrong answers. It is the most frustrating thing in the universe.

(Also, I kind of love the idea of Carr, Brooker, Mitchell, and Hammond in a Yellow Submarine type story.)

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
A couple of nights ago, I dreamt that Jimmy Carr was almost run over by a car.

In the ocean. The ship he had been in with Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell and Richard Hammond had sunk, and they were all treading water, and the car came CHARGING TOWARDS HIM OVER THE WAVES.

Hammond managed to barrel it out of the way before it hit him.


I would not be entirely surprised to see that happen on an episode of Top Gear. Some sort challenge along the lines of "Jeremy has made another amphibious car and we'll be racing it against a boat! Also made by Jeremy." And both would have Special Celebrity Guests in them, and Richard would end up with the boat, Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell, and Jimmy Carr, and it would sink, and they'd nearly be hit by a Toybota, before Richard managed to avert disaster.

Admit it, stranger things have happened on Top Gear.

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeremy's argument was that if the car had to suffer the disadvantage of being made by him, so should the boat. He then took some sheets of metal and welded them together so they would only leak a little, allowing Richard to get out into the middle of the ocean before it sank.

[identity profile] tiger-pause.livejournal.com 2011-01-29 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so weird you're posting about Professor Layton and the Curious Village because I just bought that game 2 days ago and I HAD THE SAME ISSUE WITH THE SAME PUZZLE. HE IS SO WRONG. I thought it was just me.