Professor Layton and the Curious Village: Puzzle 079 Answer

Puzzle 79 – Apples to Oranges is found by speaking with Crouton at the Restaurant during Chapter 5. You will need to have solved Puzzle 78 – Water Pitchers first.

How many picarats is Puzzle 079 worth?

Puzzle 079 is worth 40 picarats.

How to solve Puzzle 079?

For Puzzle 79, you need to switch around the arrangement of boxes of apples and oranges.

Some careless deliveryman loaded two shipments of fruit into the wrong warehouses.

As you can see in the picture below, the oranges are currently in the apple warehouse and vice versa.

Can you correct the mistake and put all the fruit in its proper place?

What are the hints for Puzzle 079?

Hint 1

There are two small areas between the warehouses where you can stash an additional two boxes. Use these to your advantage when shifting boxes back and forth.

Hint 2

Find a pattern for sending boxes over and repeat it until solved. As long as you’re gradually shifting the boxes to the proper warehouses, you will finish the puzzle eventually.

Don’t be afraid of moving a few boxes back to the wrong warehouse on occasion. Sometimes you need to go backward to go forward.

Hint 3

Above all, you must find a method for moving things around.

This is by no means a difficult problem, but if you just send over boxes to the opposing warehouse, you’ll block the entrance and get stuck. Think about how you can avoid obstructing the warehouses’ entrances.

Puzzle 079 Answer

Step 1

Move the middle-right box of oranges into the upper-middle white square.

Step 2

Take the top-right box of oranges and move them into the bottom-middle white square.

Step 3

Move the middle-left box of apples into the top-right red square.

Step 4

Move the upper-left box of apples into the middle-right red square.

Step 5

Take the upper-right box of apples and move it to the leftmost white square.

Step 6

Move the box of oranges in the upper-middle white square into the upper-right orange square.

Step 7

Move the bottom-middle box of oranges into the upper-left orange square.

Step 8

Move the box of apples in the leftmost white square into the middle-left orange square.

Step 9

Move the box of apples in the middle-right red square all the way to the right.

Step 10

Take the oranges in the bottom-right red square and move them into the top-middle white square.

Step 11

Move the bottom-left box of oranges in the red square into the bottom-middle white square.

Step 12

Move the box of apples in the rightmost white square down into the bottom-right red square.

Step 13

Move the apples in the middle-left orange square into the bottom-right red square.

Step 14

Move the apples in the bottom-left orange square to the middle-right red square.

Step 15

Move the apples in the bottom-right orange square to the leftmost white square.

Step 16

Move the oranges in the top-middle square into the bottom-right orange square.

Step 17

Move the oranges in the bottom-middle square to the bottom-left orange square.

Step 18

Move the apples in the leftmost white square all the way to the right into the middle-left orange square.

Step 19

Move the apples in the middle-right red square to the rightmost white square.

Step 20

Move the oranges in the middle-left red square into the top-middle white square.

Step 21

Move the oranges in the top-left red square into the bottom-middle white square.

Step 22

Move the apples in the middle-right white square into the top-left red square.

Step 23

Move the apples in the middle-left orange square over to the middle-left red square.

Step 24

Move the final box of apples into the middle-right red square.

Step 25

Move the oranges in the bottom-middle square to the bottom-left orange square.

Step 26

Move the final box of oranges to the middle-left orange square.

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For solving puzzle 79, you’ll receive a Painting Scrap for the painting section in the menu.

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