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Unlike how the four previous Layton games each had at least a dozen of the main story puzzles changed in localization, you can use one hand to count the main story puzzles that were changed between the first Japanese release and and the US release for Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask.
Main story puzzles#
Puzzle No. 016 is about four people who all have watches with the wrong time, and the player must determine the correct time based on their hints. The Japanese version is set in a waiting room during the day and will accept an answer using either a 12- or 24-hour clock. The US version is set at the end of an evening party, and the correct answer is the same regardless of the clock system. The US version of the puzzle was carried over to the Japanese Plus release.
Only Puzzle No. 038 was completely different for the US version. The Japanese puzzle required writing a word in hiragana as the answer to, "An aquarium has many species of fish in it: sea bream, Japanese pilchard, flounder, shark, octopus, and starfish. What is the tank the most full of?" The US puzzle is about using two "L" blocks to create a pattern that follows the same rule as six other patterns.
In Puzzle No. 043, the layout of the pawns on the chessboard was mirrored horizontally between the Japanese and US versions.
Puzzle No. 106 changes the icons for the maze's start/end points from "S" and "G" in the Japanese version to a car and a flag in the US version.
Puzzle No. 116 has the same setup and logic for finding the answer, but different input methods in the Japanese and US versions. The former has the player write one hiragana, and the latter has the player drag the tile with the correct letter into the answer slot.
Daily Puzzles#
All of the Daily Puzzles are essentially the same between the Japanese and US versions, but two puzzle categories have graphical differences.
The blocks in the Big Block Box puzzles use different colors.
The pieces of candy in the Sweet Truth puzzles were originally jewels in the Japanese version. The puzzle category's Japanese title is こだわり宝石箱, roughly "Fussing Over Boxes of Jewels". The main Daily Puzzles menu also uses a different icon for the category.