Konami isn't discouraging Professor Layton comparisons with its Flash demo of the 3DS game Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights. Not only is the content similar -- by which we mean it's a bunch of puzzles -- Layton games frequently have their own Flash demos.
The main difference we see here is that you'll get progressively simpler puzzles of the same type whenever you fail. We don't understand Minesweeper, OK? It's really embarrassing.