Puzzle 020
Thanks to Venn for finding the second solution.
Puzzle 021
The professor must head west.
If it takes 4 hours to get to Dodge from Canterlot, and 7 hours from Ponyville, that means it must take 3 hours to get from Ponyville to Canterlot. If it takes 10 hours to travel from Canterlot to Appleloosa, then the entire journey must take 13 hours. If you needed to arrive in Appleloosa at 10 o’clock, then you must leave Ponyville at 9 o’clock in the previous half-day.
9 o’clock on a watch is equivalent to west on a compass, so that is the direction in which the professor must go.
Puzzle 022
Zapapples.
Puzzle 23
Using this route, only one button is pressed. The one point to remember about this puzzle is that you must press a button to access Applejack at the centre. Once Layton found the route, he needn’t remember the path, just to not cross any buttons unless he was within sight of Applejack and had only one button to cross in order to reach her.
Puzzle 024
The last circles on each of the rows and columns are made up of the contents of the circles above or to the left. However, if they share an identical shape, i.e. a yellow circle at the top, then they cancel out in the resulting circle.
The indicated circle is wrong, because it should have the circle shown in white in order to achieve the right answer in its row and column.
Puzzle 025
My name alone, total the acronym – Hershel Layton
H = 8, L = 12, Total = 20
Next turn forever on its side – the infinity symbol.
∞ turned on its side = 8
Finally, a baker’s dozen five-fold, less a pair.
13 x 5 = 65, 65 – 2 = 63
The code is 20-8-63.
Possibly the best crossover story I've read to date... Good job!
Great story and I love the puzzles so far. I just want to make the point that your first puzzle here has two solutions. See also:
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My recommendation would be to move the central windmill down a square, leaving your solution as the only one (and not significantly decreasing the difficulty of the problem). Love the crossover, still, and can't wait to read more! (Oh heavens, Luke is going to try and talk to Angel at some point, isn't he? That's a disaster waiting to happen. Or worse; he might talk down to Spike.)
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What makes you think it'll be Trixie?
287984 Double Subversion!
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Magnificent! I have included your solution, and you have the credit. Thanks again!
Another solution for Puzzle 20:
From the bottom left lake, go right, up, up again, and right. The resulting plot will be a vaguely S shape, and will naturally divide the other plots into equal territories as well!
Really, that was the simplest puzzle so far...