PICARATS 020 [VIDEO/ACTION IN SAFFRON CITY]

[puzzling]

[ So, guess who has just found out that today is the best fucking day ever? Really, do you know what day it is today? Do you? ]

[ ...no, it's not just a Sunday, nor is it just January 29th. Gosh, get your head straight, good man and woman, and go look at your calender again!! You know why? Because, it's National Puzzle Day!! ]

[ As most people who know the Professor, they will notice very quickly that he's quite the fanatic about puzzles, so really, this day is just mindblowingly awesome. He will even use the word "cool" for this day. So y'know what, he is totally jumping on this obscure holiday and rolling with it. ]

Earlier this morning, it has been brought to my attention that today is National Puzzle Day. We certainly do not have anything like this back in London in my time period, so it will be splendid if I may celebrate this day with a few others.

For this special occasion, I will be doubling the amount of picarats rewarded for each puzzle solved. Along with that, you may redeem your picarats for prizes and I will send them out shortly after with my Pokemon. Please do not hesitate to ask me any questions or concerns. I have quite the number of puzzles behind me so we may do this all day.

Here is my first puzzle, worth 10 picarats to start things off easy:

"Behold is the glorious Eiffel Tower, standing over 1,000 feet tall. It's a massive monument to Paris, but there is a way to make the entire structure vanish before your eyes by using nothing by two coins.

How does one accomplish this feat?"

(( ooc: bringing back the picarat system that Layton has been using since he got here! The higher the amount of picarats, the harder the puzzle is. When you get an answer wrong, your picarats will decrease by a small amount and whenever you solve it, that's the amount of picarats you get. Layton has a bunch of prizes from food to toys to clothes to whatever, so solve solve solve for free things!! ))

Comments

[puzzling]

Of course. This one will be worth 25 picarats. Please take your time with it.

"Two convicts are locked together inside a cell. There is an unbarred widow in the cell, but high up. Even if they stood on the beds or on top of another, they could not reach it to escape. Finally, they decided to dig a tunnel out, but gave up after digging for an hour. Suddenly, one of the convicts had figured out how to escape. What is his plan?"

[usedlaserbeam]

The security in this cell is surprisingly minimal, if there's not only an unbarred window but a set of digging tools for tunneling.

Still, I'd imagine digging for an hour would accrue a considerable pile of surplus dirt, along with the hole. Enough, perhaps, to pile beneath the window and use as a means of reaching it?

[puzzling]

Quite minimal, but enough for this puzzle's solution to work, which you have gotten correctly. [ And he writes down the picarats won again! ] You are solving these puzzles with ease, my boy.

[usedlaserbeam]

I'm enjoying them immensely. It's been some time since I last had occasion to test my wits with a good puzzle.

[puzzling]

Yes, and it has been a while since I have given out any puzzles. My most difficult one is 99 picarats while my easiest is 10. Would you like one in the middle or a more challenging one?

[ Pick your number!! 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and so on until 99!! ]

[usedlaserbeam]

[SCREAM his Rikkai sensibilities. GO BIG OR GO HOME.]

I'll try a 50-picarat question, then, if you have one ready.

[puzzling]

Of course. I always have puzzles of any level up my sleeves. Here you are;

"A poor man was sitting outside a bar when he saw a rich man walk out. The poor man said to the rich man; "I know every song known to man."

The rich man laughed and said; "I bet you all the money in my pocket that you can't sing a song with my daughter's name in it, Sheryl Rivers."

The poor man went home rich and the rich man went home poor. What song did the man sing? Please sing the song that the poor man sang to solve this puzzle."

[usedlaserbeam]

...

You want me to actually sing it?