Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Bonus Puzzle #2 - Sheep O'mania

Monday, July 19, 2010

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #55 - Reverse Numbers

You know the drill by now, just keep on sliding away.

Fun fact: The Chess Champion Bobby Fischer was an expert at solving the 15-Puzzle. He had been timed to be able to solve it within 25 seconds.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #54 - Divide the garden

Not too tricky this one.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #53 - Space Ships

Similar to the piggy puzzle, but maybe easier?

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #52 - Mouse Trap

Come on, you can do this on your own.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #51 - Colored Balls

Make diagonals of the green and blues and slot the rest in according to the rules.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #50 - Mine Code

Not too tricky, (4 x 21) -12 = 72

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #49 - Right Path

Similar to the berry mission but actually easier, you'll probably not need the solution.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #48 - Matchstick Mania

**UPDATED**

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #47 - Bogie Swap

Quite a marathon this one.

First, you have to collect the blue bogie and move it out of the way a little to the side near the bridge.

Then go get the red car and pull it back down to the bottom, placing it into the side track you started at

Then go over the top, through the bridge and collect the blue bogie, pushing it all the way towards the red, which you attach so that you have all three attached, ( red to the left, blue in the middle and train at the right).

Pull it all backwards towards the bridge and then push up so your cars and train end up at the top, with the red now to the right.

Now, detach the red, move the blue down to the side track and detach. Go back up for the red, attaching the train to the left side, move that down, unhitch and go through the bridge and around.

Collect the blue, pull backwards and then up, pushing it all the way to the top. Then  push the train back into the side road.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #46 - Bookworm

Oooh, sneaky, you'll have to notice that the books are ordered back to front so the little worm actually only eats one cover of volume one, all of books 2,3 & 4, and again only the one cover of volume 5, making a sum total of 19cm (0.5 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 0.5).

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #45 - Odd one out

Not too difficult if you can picture it in your head.


Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #44 - Frog and the lily pad

Phew, start with 8 forward, 5 back, 8 forward, 5 back, 5 back, 8 forward, 5 back.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #43 - House Path

Tricky, so here we go.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #42 - Open the lock

Similar to earlier puzzles, it might help to put the objects into notepad/excel and cut/paste them into the right order from the clues.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #41 - Matches

Pretty easy once you realise you can rotate the matches, roman numerals spell 6.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #40 - Sphere Colors

Another sliding puzzle, you'll get there in the end.



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Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #39 - Triangle Sum

A nice easy one, just make sure the bigger numbers are placed where they are not used twice, if that makes sense.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #38 - Chessboard

From the hints, first move is to 6, then 8, then 2... pretty easy this one... 10, 4, 12, 7, 5, 11, 3, 9

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #37 - Cell Door

I think someone messed up this puzzle, it only takes 4 moves.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #36 - Perimeter of the Cemetery

Look carefully and you'll see that you'll need to calculate the 2 sides on the right left that are not measured for you, simple math really.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #35 - Obtain the key

Pretty easy, just twist and rotate and move until you've uncovered the key.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #34 - Cats and Dogs

Choose the kitty at the top left.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #33 - Square Metal Sheets

Maybe it's confusingly worded, but you're looking for this:


Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #32 - Foot Prints

Easy peasy. Picture show penultimate step, just tap the red foot and you're done.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #31 - Steam Power

Just cubed numbers, 2x2x2, 3x3x3.....7x7x7. So which is not a cubed result ?

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #30 - Flower Mix

Pretty straightforward i think.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #29 - Giant Leaps

Not tootough, the secret is to ensure that at the early stages you don't have the same colour toads next to each other.

Number the pads 1 through 6 andmove the frogs/toads as follows

5->4, 3->5, 2->3, 4->2, 6->4, 7->6, 5->7, 3->5, 1->3, 2->1, 4->2, 6->4, 5->6, 3->5, 4->3

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #28 - Merry Berry

Shouldn't be too taxing, but here's the answer for anyone going crazy.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #27 - Eight Queens

You know how Queens attack in Chess right? So make sure they can't "see" each other.

1D, 2G, 3C, 4H, 5B, 6E, 7A & 8F

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #26 - Join the pieces

Simple jigsaw, was a bit dark on my ipod screen though, how about you?

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #25 - Maps and Routes

I'm sure you've no problem with this.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #24 - Stack o' books

This is the traditional Tower of Hanoi puzzle.

Move the smallest book onto the middle column
Move the second smallest onto the right column
Move the smallest onto the right column
Move the third smallest onto the middle column
Move the smallest onto the first column
Move the second smallest onto the middle column
Move the smallest book onto the middle column
Move the largest onto the right column
Move the smallest onto the right column
Move the second smallest onto the left column
Move the smallest book onto the first column
Move the third smallest onto the right column
Move the smallest onto the middle column
Move the second smallest onto the right column
Move the smallest onto the left column

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #23 - The last marble

This is basically a Chinese Checkers puzzle, there's a choice of 4 pieces to start with so just choose any of them, then move a marble into the newly opened space, now move a marble into the centre, then move the cnetre marble in the same direction as your opening move, should be obvious after this.




Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #22 - Escape

Bit fiddly, but otherwise just the usua; shuffle the pieces until you can get the Princess free.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #21 - New Moon

Just shuffle the pieces around until you get the howling wolves.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #20 - The Island Connection

From the hints: There is only one bridge between the island in the upper left corner and the one below it. Use 2 bridges to connect the upper right with the upper left.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #19 - The identical cubes

Not too tough especially if you draw the shape of the open cube onto paper, cut it out, fold it and unfold it then draw on the icons, makes a nice memento too ;-).

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #18 - Let there be light


Row/column
1.A
4.A
5.C
3.D
1.E
6.E
6.F

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #17 - Circles and Shapes

It's poorly worded perhaps, but this is what you'll want to draw.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #16 - Nab the thief

There's a bunch of ways to do this, but we'll go with this

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #15 - Ticket Please

Yhe encrypted numbers are the square of each value, ie: 1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81 & 100. The encryption is the sum of each pair, ie: 1+4, 9+16, 25+36, 49+64, 81+100. The missing total is therefore 61.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #14 - Light Bulbs

First tap the third bulb in the fourth row. First bulb in the second row, the last bulb in the second row. First bulb in the fourth row, then the last bulb in the fifth row, finally the last bulb in the fourth row.


Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #13 - Hidden Coins

Pretty simple.

Jim and Frank Mysteries Solutions - Puzzle #12 - A Knight's Tale

Should be pretty straightforward even if you do end up shuffling them a gazillion times !

Eventually you'll be one step to go as per picture.