Professor Layton and the Curious Village: Hints, Answers and Puzzle Guide

Professor Layton and the Curious Village is where the series began: Professor Layton and his young assistant Luke arrive in the village of St. Mystere, where almost everyone they meet has a puzzle for them. This hub gathers our hint-by-hint guides for the game.

At a glance

Original platform	Nintendo DS
First released	Japan Feb 15, 2007 · North America Feb 10, 2008 · Europe Nov 7, 2008
Later version	HD for Mobile (iOS, Android), worldwide Sep 25, 2018
Puzzles	135 (120 story + 15 bonus in Layton’s Challenges)
Hint coins	200 (10 to start, 190 hidden)

Puzzle guides

• Full puzzle list — all 135 puzzles with locations, chapters, picarats and both regional titles.
• Hint coins — how hint coins work and how to find more of them.

Puzzle pages so far

We started with the puzzles people search for most. Puzzles with a full guide page so far (NA = North American version, EU = European version):

• Puzzles 001–030: 005 · Digital Digits (NA) · 005 · Clock Hands (EU); 006 · Light Weight; 007 · Wolves and Chicks; 008 · Farm Work; 009 · One Poor Pooch; 011 · Arc and Line; 013 · Sinking Ship; 016 · Triangles and Ink; 021 · Pill Prescription; 026 · Bottle Full of Germs
• Puzzles 031–060: 031 · Racetrack Riddle; 032 · Candy Jars; 037 · Brother and Sister; 041 · Spare Change; 042 · The Camera and Case; 045 · Puzzled Aliens (NA) · 045 · Lunar Weight (EU); 046 · The Biggest Star (NA) · 046 · Star in the Sky (EU); 050 · OTTF? (NA) · 050 · Number Maze (EU); 056 · The Lazy Guard
• Puzzles 061–090: 067 · The Chocolate Code (NA) · 067 · How Many Sweets? (EU); 068 · Find the Pentagons; 069 · Chocolate Puzzle; 073 · How Many Squares?; 076 · Flower Garden (EU); 078 · Water Pitchers; 087 · Ferris Wheel Riddle
• Puzzles 091–120: 099 · 33333!; 102 · Aces and the Joker; 108 · Not Knots; 111 · Mystery Item (NA) · 111 · Making a Square (EU); 116 · The Largest Total; 117 · Painting a Cube
• Puzzles 121–135 (Layton’s Challenges): 123 · Tons of Triangles; 130 · Too Many Queens 5

More puzzles are added as we check each answer. The full list links every puzzle that has a page.

North American vs European versions

The game has the same name in both regions, but the puzzles don’t always match. At 16 puzzle numbers, the European (UK) version uses a completely different puzzle — for example, Puzzle 067 is a keyboard cipher in North America but a sweet-sharing logic puzzle in Europe. A few other puzzles are the same but renamed. Every page on this site is labelled (US), (EU) or neither if the puzzle is the same everywhere, and links to the other region’s version where there is one.

How our hints work

Each puzzle page gives you a short description in our own words, then three hints that get more specific, then the answer and a step-by-step explanation. Open only what you need.

Playing in order?

Curious Village is the first game released, but not the first in the story. See Professor Layton games in order for both orders, or jump to the newest game, New World of Steam.

Hint by Hint is an unofficial fan guide and is not affiliated with LEVEL-5.