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Window Pains (Window Pain in the UK version) is a puzzle in Professor Layton and the Last Specter.
Puzzle
"I was carefully cleaning up the fragments of this broken window with my three friends.
I picked up the first three pieces. My friends followed in turn, each picking up three more pieces than whoever went before them.
In the end, there were still three fragments on the floor. How many pieces of glass were there to begin with?"
Hints
Solution
Incorrect
- US Version
Too bad!
Try figuring out exactly how many pieces each person would have taken.
- UK Version
Too bad.
Try working out exactly how many pieces each person would have taken.
Correct
Great!
There were 33 pieces.
- US Version
The friends picked up three, six, nine, and twelve glass fragments. You then just had to add the three left on the floor to get the total.
- UK Version
The friends picked up three, six, nine and twelve glass fragments. You then just have to add the three left on the floor to get the total.
Trivia
In the Japanese version, this puzzle appears as Weekly Puzzle 5.
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