[Ripped from my
Vox blog]
My twin brother 2 years removed, Harrison (or
.harr to some, hehe) is visiting from college for the Zombie-Jesus weekend. Sitting side by side, him with my sister's DS lite and me with my PSP, we began to discuss the variety of hand held games we've been playing over the past few months. Back in the good ol' days, Harrison and I would spend many brain power hours in tandem getting through various puzzle and adventure games on the PC such as
The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary,
The Castle of Doctor Brain, and
Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate. Naturally, our experiences with
Professor Layton and the Curious Village surfaced between our discussions.
Harrison mentioned that he had a chance to try a few puzzles at GameStop, remarking that he had a little bit of trouble on a couple of them. I immediately related as I too had run into a bit of a jam on what seemed to be some of the most simple puzzles. Our subconcious sibling connection was revealed when we both brought up issues with the 10 picarats Strange Hats puzzle. Pathetic, I know.
I present to you the exact Strange Hats puzzle below. If there's one thing I hate, it's being told that I'm stupid by a simple mind puzzle on my DS. If there's another thing I hate, it's finding out my super smart electrical engineering brother had the same problem. Here's
your chance to further convince me of my own stupidity by trying to solve the puzzle yourself!
If you've played the game already you probably already know the answer, but if you haven't have a go... and don't cheat!
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That one above in particular was quite a WTF moment for me.
Okay, now I feel a little less stupid.
Also: spoilers.
Yeah seriously, Cowzilla. What a worthless liberal arts education. Pfft.
...right?
Fuck that.
Things just seem taller than you would expect when going from a horizontal orientation.
*You can just skip to the last part.
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that question was weird
that question was weird
Still, you shouldn't feel bad that your super smart EE brother couldn't get it either. That means that the puzzle is just hard, not that you're dumb. Right?
If I've learned anything while at University, it's that intelligence comes in all sorts of flavors.
Mmmmmmmm, chocolate intelligence...
It is actually there to set a groundrule for the rest of the game I think, if something seems too easy or obvious, it's probably a trap! You should live by that motto for the rest of the game and the rest of your life, IMO!
aka GOT IT ON MY FIRST TRY BOOYAH
:(
Wouldn't that make you happy, so you could laugh at him? Sibling rivalry and all? :p
I suppose I shouldn't mention that I got that on the first try, and didn't make a random guess. Although the one with the clocks (how many times do three of the same number appear during a day) is making me feel dumb, even though it's worth 50. I even wrote them down and still got it wrong. :p
Also, Tiff and Harr's parents make endearing and cute babies.
@KamikazeTutor BWAHAHAHA. CORRECT!
The later ones are tougher.
Kamikaze is right.
I'm not smart enough for that.
Also, I'm not trying to pick Tiff up. Tiff is too cool to try to have sex with. Wait, that's not right...