Where to find Puzzle 067?
Puzzle 067 – How Many Sweets? can be found by speaking to Lucy in the Clock Tower, during Chapter 5. You will need to have solved her last puzzle: 066 – Five Borrowers before she will ask you to solve 067.
How many picarats is Puzzle 067 worth?
Puzzle 067 is worth 40 picarats.
How to solve Puzzle 067?
For this puzzle, you work out how many sweets there are split between three boys.
Three boys are talking about how many sweets they each have.
A: B has the most!
B: If C gave me one sweet, I’d have twice as many as A does.
C: It’s be better if B gave me two sweets. Then we’d all have the same amount!
How many sweets are there in total?
The best way to approach this puzzle is by thinking about how the exchange of sweets impacts the distribution.
If the ratio can change so drastically just by giving away one or two sweets, then there certainly won’t be too many over all. That will put a low cap on your options!
What are the hints for Puzzle 067?
Hint 1
If B gave C two sweets, everyone would have the same number.
This must mean that the difference between A and B is two sweets, and the difference between B and C is twice that, making four.
Hint 2
You know from Hint 1 that the difference between A and B is two sweets. You also know that if B got one sweet from C, he would have twice as many sweets as A.
Put these two facts together and you should be able to work out how many sweets A has.
Hint 3
You can work out from Hint 2 that A has three sweets.
That makes it easy to work out how many B has, since you know he has two more!
Puzzle 067 Answer
There are 9 sweets in total.
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