Professor Layton and the Curious Village/Lost in Translation

Many puzzles have clearer instructions in their JP and EU translations than the US version, like Puzzle 023 for example. And of course, many had their titles changed between versions, even between the US and UK versions.

All puzzles relying on English wordplay had to be excised for the European releases since they are untranslatable in other languages, but this trend would continue and eventually creep even into the English versions for later games.

Changed for US
Puzzle 010: The JP version has “One of these kanji doesn’t belong”. The US version was changed to. It was later changed in the EU version.

Puzzle 017: The JP version has spread cards with Japanese words written on them that have some sort of a meaning, with one card that doesn’t belong. The US version has four sets of cards that are all rotations of each other except one set that has to be found.

Puzzle 023: While involving dividing juice in the localized versions, this one used wine in the original version,

Puzzle 034: In the JP version, it is about finding the names of the countries a puzzle maker visited, from a strange letter. The US version is about finding the maximal thickness of a pile of paper sheets.

Puzzle 038: In the US version, you have to place a bridge so that you can travel across all islands once in a given path. The JP version is completely different… “While enjoying a plane flight, a gorgeous hostess came and told you: We may experience some aerial turbulences, but even if you flip this over, it won’t be a problem. Then the playful woman gave you one of the three objects below. Which one is it?”

Puzzle 041: The US version is about counting the coins above the convoluted rope. The JP version has you read a flyer from an electronics store: “If you wanted to buy the cheapest available item, which one would you choose?”

Puzzle 045: In the JP version, alien spies are investigating something. “Gee, what an odd device! It makes holes in paper, but at the same time it makes them easier to see by marking a line around the hole!!” You have to write the answer in hiragana.

Puzzle 046: The JP version says “Long ago, people used to look at stars and see in them drawings of mythological creatures and legendary heroes. Connect the five largest star shapes in the following drawing to make a large star, with straight lines not cutting other stars.” Hint: You can’t, unless you write “star” instead of drawing it.

Puzzle 062: NoA Censorship. The JP version was: “A detective investigating a case was savagely murdered, but he wrote a message with numbers that hints at the culprit. Three suspects: “Shigeo”, “Takeshi” and “Masashi”. Who did it?”

Puzzle 063: NoA Censorship 2. The JP version was: “Oops! While changing his clothes, he dropped: a matchbook from a cabaret, a losing horse-racing betting slip, and a photo of an old mistress. All right in front of his wife! In order to save himself, he needs to cover something with each hand. Move the two hands to hide everything efficiently.” Professor Layton couldn’t get more family-friendly.

It was replaced with another variant of “How old is my father” puzzle variant. However, this puzzle is still in the US/EU version, even used, but not in the way you would think of: It’s the DLC Puzzle W13. Obviously, it was heavily censored with an entirely different, far easier formulation.

Puzzle 065: The JP version was: “A certain computer code outputs the following: INU becomes DOG, TORI become BIRD, CHA becomes TEA, and CHOU becomes TEIG. [Translator Note: The first three Japanese words are replaced by their correct English translations, but not the fourth which is “butterfly”] What is the word (formed by two katakana) which becomes EDBI ? In the US version, there is a drawing with areas named A, B, C… where we must find out a value behind each letter.

Puzzle 066: The JP version: “How old are you, lady? – After two days I will turn 22. I remember my last birthday when I was still a teenager. – Write her birthday date.”

PUZZLES 75-130 TODO

Changed for Europe
Puzzle 005

Puzzle 010: In the US version (which was itself changed from the JP version), you have to […]. In the EU version, you have to find the digit values that ere swapped with a letter in the shown equations.

Puzzle 045: In the EU version, it is about how much an object of 600g weighs in the moon with 1/6 Earth’s gravity.

Puzzle 046: In the EU version, it is about how much triangles are in the starry sky drawing.

Puzzle 050: In the JP version, it has letters of the alphabet arranged on cards, like this: OTTF.. with a missing letter to complete on the last black card. It is instead a numerical maze in the UK version.

Puzzle 062: The EU version has instead a puzzle about dividing an oddly-shaped inherited land.

Puzzle 066: The EU version has many hints about persons in dept, and asks you to choose the specific person satisfying the conditions.

Puzzle 067: Chocolate Code from the US / JP version, which asked you about a message in letters left by your girlfriend bite on the chocolate, was replaced in EU version with a a puzzle about counting sweets.

Puzzle 072: The JP version has: “How far will the bookworm travel through this thick book?” The EU version is instead about who is lying.

Puzzle 076

Puzzle 085

Puzzle 088

Puzzle 096

Puzzle 111

Puzzle 113

Puzzle 124

Removed Wi-Fi puzzles
Out of the 52 Wi-Fi puzzles from the original JP version, only the first 27 are left, and most of them are completely different from their original conterparts. The rest of them are completely removed.