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Seventy Books is a puzzle in Professor Layton and the Last Specter.
Puzzle
- US Version
A bookcase has seven shelves each filled with 10 books of the same size.
When you choose a book, you must also take the two books above, below, to the left, and to the right of the one you actually want. If there are fewer than two books in any of these directions, you cannot choose that book.
Choosing as many books as possible, how many books will you end up taking?
- UK Version
A bookcase has seven shelves each filled with ten books of the same size.
When you choose a book, you must also take the two books directly above, below, to the left and to the right of the one you actually want. If there are fewer than two books in any of these directions, you cannot choose that book.
Choosing as many books as possible, how many books will you end up taking?
Hints
Solution
Incorrect
Too bad!
- US Version
You have to count all the books you can take.
- UK Version
You have to count all the books you must take.
Correct
Inc-read-ible!
- US Version
Eighteen books is correct.
Even though it looks like you should be able to take more, you can't because of that troublesome rule.
- UK Version
18 books is correct.
Even though it looks like you should be able to take more, you can't because of that troublesome rule.
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