Layton's Mystery Journey: Real World Puzzle Solving

Layton's Mystery Journey: Real World Puzzle Solving was a promotional campaign for the Professor Layton series game Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy. The campaign was a joint operation between LEVEL-5 and SCRAP, a company that creates Escape rooms.

In order to answer the puzzles, people needed to visit the website, https://layton.world. They may then choose a puzzle and enter the answer in the provided box. All puzzles were in English and expected a single English word as answer. Puzzles are now offline but they were archived here.

Most of the puzzles themselves could however not be found on the site itself. Instead, they needed to be found in the real world by physically searching for them. A hint is provided for each puzzle to allow people to locate it. Once a puzzle has been found, the site expected people to post the puzzle on Twitter, so that other people will be able to solve it as well. The website showed the relevant tweets for each puzzle on the bottom, and automatically translated them through Google Translate (a system which the site dubs as "Translayton").

As in all games of the series, solving a puzzle would gain the user a specific amount of picarats. Answering the puzzle with a wrong answer will decrease the amount of picarats that can be earned. Additional picarats will also be awarded depending on how fast the user manages to solve the puzzle. The picarats were only used to show a global ranking of users on the site. Once a puzzle has been solved, it could not be solved again under the same account.

Real World Puzzle Solving closed on December 12, 2017 and the items could no longer be transferred.

Story

Katrielle Layton receives a small package in her office at the Layton Detective Agency. In it, she finds a mysterious box called the "Abstraction Contraption" and a letter directed to her father Hershel. According to the letter, anyone who dares to open the box is said to mysteriously vanish. The writer of the letter, Alan Hathaway, then asks Hershel to solve the mystery of this box.

Since her father is not present, Katrielle decides she will solve the mystery herself. Despite some objections from Sherl, she presses a button on the box; which causes it to project a message. The message proclaims that anyone who can solve the 50 puzzles it has scattered around the globe will obtain the "power to change the world."

In order to find and solve all 50 puzzles, Katrielle decides to ask for the help of all people on the internet.

Puzzles

Main article: Layton's Mystery Journey: Real World Puzzle Solving/List of puzzles.

Items

Ancient Civilization Office

A series of items can be collected through a roulette. In order to play the roulette, you must have "roulette tickets", which you can get by solving puzzles.

Some of the items, such as Outfits and Office Decorations can be transferred to the actual game once it releases.

	Name	Transfer?
1	Kat's pyjamas	Yes
2	Ancient civilization walls	Yes
3	Ancient civilization flooring	Yes
4	Ancient civilization curtains	Yes
5	Ancient civilization rug	Yes
6	Ancient civilization table	Yes
7	Ancient civilization chair	Yes
8	Ancient civilization sofa	Yes
9	Ancient civilization cushions	Yes
10	Large cat cushion	No
11	Stuffed striped cat	No
12	Cat statue triumvirate	No
13	Agency tea set	No
14	Luxury liner model	No
15	Saveloy film projector	No
16	Saveloy film reel	No
17	Saveloy film poster	No
18	Katrielle's bicycle	No
19	Lipski bicky	No
20	Lipski house of sweets	No
21	Lipski tower of treats	No
22	Lipski vase and flowers	No
23	Lipski wall clock	No
24	Lipski sweets	No
25	Lipski's lamp	No
26	Lipski's big bear	No
27	Agency suitcase	No
28	Agency alarm clock	No
29	Agency calendar	No
30	Agency wireless	No