Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Release Date: February 11, 2008

Puzzle 025

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Puzzle 025 - Equilateral Triangle

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Details In the drawing below, 10 coins are arranged to form an equilateral triangle. The triangle is pointing up right now, but can you get it to point down by moving three of the coins?
Hint 1 If you flipped the position of the base and the top rows of the triangle, the triangle would point the opposite direction. But moving the top rows of the triangle requires you to move six coins.

Why don't you try to move the base row?
Hint 2 You don't really think it's impossible to flip the triangle by moving three coins, do you?! Come on now!

Think about it. You can only move three coins. You're dealing with a three-sided shape. This couldn't be a coincidence, now could it?
Hint 3 There are three corners on a triangle. Since the triangle pictured here is pointing upward, only one corner points upward. The other two corners point downward.

You are trying to reverse the direction of the triangle, so why not focus on rearranging the corners?
Solution Pull the 3 corner coins away. Place one on either side of the two coins in the top row and place the last one at the bottom to complete the triangle.

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