[UF070] The Third Youngest

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The Third Youngest
Game	Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Number	070
Type	Tap Answer
Location	Belltower Gate
Solved by	Luke
Picarats	25
Mandatory	No
Reward	None

The Third Youngest is a puzzle in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

Puzzle

"There are 10 siblings living together. Luke, let's say you're the eighth child. The oldest daughter is the second son's younger sister and the third son's older sister. The fourth son is the second daughter's older brother and the oldest daughter's little brother. There are no boys in between the third and fourth daughters. Got all that?"

Is the third-youngest child a boy or a girl?

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You weren't confounded by that circumlocutory explanation, were you?

Read the puzzle again from the very beginning.

IF trying to comprehend all of those conditions too much of a pain?

If you're thinking that way, here's a word to the wise: this is actually a very simple puzzle.

Out of the 10 siblings, Luke is the eight child...

How many siblings are younger than Luke?

Out of the 10 siblings, the third-youngest child is the same as the eight!

And Luke certainly isn't a girl, so...

Solution

Incorrect

Too bad!

Simplify your thinking as much as possible.

Correct

Correct!

At the beginning, Luke was named as the eighth child. The puzzle is asking for the gender of the third child from the bottom, and since there are 10 siblings in total, the third from the bottom is the same as the eighth from the top!

And of course Luke is a boy!