PICARATS 017 [VIDEO/ACTION IN CIANWOOD]

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[ Lookie here, check out this gorgeous view of the sea. The way the water is so clear and the sun shining brightly down on it. It seems like the perfect day for a swim and the perfect day to be outside, especially on the beach. Those by the Cianwood and Olivine beach should get out right now and sit right there, just like what the good old

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He's forty years old, she's ten.

[Cooper will totally embrace any puzzles you can throw at him, Professor. But not before backtracking a little in that monologue of his.]

It's only two months until my own anniversary. Time really does fly here.

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Yes, that is the correct answer! If the man is forty, then he is indeed four times older than the daughter. In twenty years, their ages will also fit the specifications that the puzzle has asked for. Well done.

[ Writing the picarats that Cooper won into his notebook now. ] Time does indeed seem to be slipping through our fingers. I don't believe anyone might have thought they will be staying here for this long.

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I certainly didn't.

So what's the other anniversary you mentioned?

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It is not terribly important.

[ No really, it's not and that's all he is going to say on the matter. No hint coins for this. ]

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[Cooper accepts that easily, with a small smile.]

Alright, I won't ask. But if you have any more puzzles I'd love to hear them.

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[ the Professor smiles at that. ]

Thank you and then here is another puzzle for you. This one will now be worth twenty-five picarats:

"Two days ago, a boy was seventeen years old. The next year, he will be twenty. How is this possible?"

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Seventeen years old ...

[Cooper is the type to think out loud, and he does so with a small frown.]

Seventeen ... [And then he gets it :D] Oh, it's got to do with New Year's. He'd have to be born very late in the year. Last of December. If it's January 1st when he makes the statement, he was in fact seventeen two days ago, and he'd have turned eighteen the following day. This year he'll turn nineteen on the last of December - and next year he'll be twenty on the same date.

[And yes, this is his face when he understands something.]

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Correct! The trick of solving this puzzle is all about the date and it is exactly like you have described it.

Very well done. You have tore into that one quite easily as usual.

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Only because I enjoy your puzzles, Professor.

[Rather sincere smile at that! He appreciates that you give him mind games.]

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Haha, I am glad to hear to. It seems even in the future, puzzles are still an enjoyable past-time for many, or so have I observed from Johto.

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When are you from?

[Cooper's from the past himself, so his curiosity is spiked.]

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The year 1935.

What year has it been for you, Cooper?

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1989. It's not often I meet people from what I would consider the past.

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It does seem like a majority of the people here in Johto are from the future for some reason.

[ It's almost as if they're from canons that take place in the 21st century, but nahhhh... ]

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[Naaaah that couldn't possibly be it, could it?]

Johto itself seems to be in some kind of future, doesn't it?

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Yes, it does seem so. A lot of the technology here is beyond what I know.

Is it the same for you?