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Taste Test (Bun Gourmet in the UK version) is a puzzle in Professor Layton and the Last Specter.
Puzzle
- US Version
There are four different types of buns in this assortment of 12.
There are more cream buns than butter buns, fewer chocolate buns than jam buns, and fewer jam buns than cream buns.
If buns of the same type always have the shape, what is the fewest number of buns you'd have to taste to determine which shapes are each type?
- UK Version
There are four different types of bun in this assortment of 12 and each type is a different shape.
There are more cream buns than butter buns, fewer chocolate buns than jam buns and fewer jam buns than cream buns.
What is the minimum number of buns you would have to taste to determine which shape represents each type?
Hints
Solution
Incorrect
- US Version
Too bad!
Try figuring out which buns are in the biggest group on the table.
- UK Version
Too bad.
Have you worked out which type of bun is the most numerous?
Correct
- US Version
Sweet deal!
You only need to taste one.
From the puzzle, you know the cream buns and the chocolate buns are the most numerous and the fewest, respectively, so you can skip the largest and smallest groups on the table. That leaves only two groups of three buns. If you try one bun from either group, you'll instant know which types are which.
- UK Version
Sweet!
You only need to taste one.
You can work out from the puzzle that the cream buns are most numerous and the chocolate buns the least numerous, so you can already identify those.
That leaves two groups of three buns. All you need to do is taste one bun from either group, and you'll know instantly which is which!
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