8 February 2009

More puzzles from Prof. Layton


Professor Layton: needs no introduction anymore. So, here are 3 new puzzles for you to solve. As usual, write your answer in the comments, although if you're correct I'll only post when I provide the solutions. Internet fame can be yours! Good luck :)


1) We start off easy, with a clasic puzzle: You have only one match left. You want to light the room with an oil lamp, start a fire to warm the room, and heat your bathwater.

In order to complete all of the above actions, which of these should you light first?



2) A boy and his big sister are sitting around the kitchen table chatting. "You know, Sis, if I took away two years from my age and gave them to you, you'd be twice my age, huh!" "Well, why don't you just give me one more on top of that? Then I'll be three times your age."

So just how old is each sibling?





3) Alfred and Roland have been hired by a farm to sow flower seeds. They've been assigned a 10-acre plot of land and split it in half so they can work independently. Roland starts from the east and Alfred from the west. Alfred can plow the land at a rate of 20 minutes per acre. Roland takes 40 minutes to plow, but sows seeds at three times the speed Alfred does.

If sowing seeds on the 10-acre plot pays $100, how much of that money should go to Roland?

4 comments:

Bornsleepy said...

nice returning feature friend,

1) without lighting the match you will fail to do whatever you want to do on that room ;)

2) got lost on the math, its late, ill read the solutions later

3) 50 bucks each! They did splitted in half on sentence number two of the puzzle ;) So who cares if one plows faster and sows slower :P

sara said...

Hum, acho que já sei a resposta aos "enigmas da natureza":
1º: primeiro acende-se o fósforo
2º: ambos têm 6 anos, são gémeos!
3º: cada um irá receber a módica quantia de $50.

Acertei, acertei e ganhei o Quem-é-Quem (ou não?)

Continua com os puzzles!!!

Antonio said...

@Bornsleepy: 2 right!
@Sara: 3 right, wiii!!

Bornsleepy said...

booohh!! to Sara,
I've TOTALLY deserved to win !!