How do your puzzle-solving skills measure up? In Professor Layton and the Curious Village for Nintendo DS, you’ll be challenged to find solutions to over 130 brainteasers designed to tax your lateral thinking to the limit.

Whether you’re attempting to slice a sandwich so that it fits in your lunch box, or trying to find a safe way to transport chicks and wolves across a river, you’ll need to use the DS Touch Screen and all the brain power you can muster to come up with an answer to your problem.

To get a taste of the puzzles in store in Professor Layton and the Curious Village, check out the first in a series of three conundrums below. This week, you’ll have to test your sense of direction and general knowledge on your way to finding a solution. And don’t worry, if the search for an answer is giving you sleepless nights, we’ll post a handy tip with next Monday’s puzzle help you along.

Good luck!

Puzzle # 1
Where's My House?

Can you find my house?

Go out the front door of my place and turn left. At the first junction you come across, take a right. Turn right again at the following junction, and you'll come face-to-face with the morning sun.

Discover more about the puzzles in Professor Layton and the Curious Village at the official website.

Professor Layton and the Curious Village is out now, only on Nintendo DS.