For being well-behaved at the garden fayre, four children were each given two sweets.
Jesse had an orange sweet. One child who had a red sweet also had a blue one. No child had two sweets of the same colour. A child who had a green sweet also had a red one. Jamie didn't have a red sweet, and Jo had a green one. Jordan didn't have an orange one, and Jesse had no blue sweets.
Knowing that there were two sweets of each colour, can you tell the colours of the sweets each child had?
Answer
Jamie Orange Blue
Jesse Orange Green
Jo Green Red
Jordan Red Blue
Reasoning
The children were: Jamie, Jesse, Jo, Jordan.
The colours were: Blue, Green, Orange, Red.
There were two sweets of each colour, and by (3) no child had two sweets of the same colour.
By (1), Jesse had an Orange sweet …
… by (6), didn't have Blue …
… by (2) and (4), Red was paired with Blue and Green …
… therefore, Jesse's other sweet can't have been Red, so was Green.
Jamie
Jesse Orange Green
Jo
Jordan
By (4) the other Green sweet was paired with Red, by (5) this must have been Jo.
Jamie
Jesse Orange Green
Jo Green Red
Jordan
By (2) the other Red sweet was paired with Blue, but by (5) this wasn't Jamie, so must have been Jordan.
Jamie
Jesse Orange Green
Jo Green Red
Jordan Red Blue
Leaving Jamie with Orange and Blue.
Jamie Orange Blue
Jesse Orange Green
Jo Green Red
Jordan Red Blue
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Puzzle 90
Can you rearrange each of these words into two common 3-letter words?
Answers helium = hum + lielatest = let + satalmond = man + oldeldest = led + setplaced = cap + ledradium = air + muddesert = red + setwealth = law + thetricky = cry + kitfunnel = elf + nun Alternative Answers
The following answers use less common words.
helium = him + leu helium = hue + mil helium = hum + lei
latest = els + tat
almond = don + lam almond = lam + nod
eldest = eld + set eldest = els + ted
placed = pec + lad
radium = mud + ria radium = amu + rid radium = aid + rum
wealth = awl + the wealth = haw + let
There are more answers with even rarer words, but I've chosen not to include those.
Reasoning
These are the initial letters of the planets.
M = Mercury
V = Venus
E = Earth
M = Mars
J = Jupiter
S = Saturn
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Puzzle 92
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