Four clowns were getting ready for the evening's performance. From the clothes trunk, each clown had to get their socks and shoes.
There was one pair of shoes in each colour, and one pair of socks in each colour.
Can you tell who had which colour socks and which colour shoes?
The red socks went with the blue shoes. Baba had yellow shoes, but not yellow socks. The clown with green shoes did not have blue socks. Boba had neither red shoes nor red socks. Bilpo's shoes were the same colour as Babil's socks. The clown with red shoes had green socks.
Hint
Try matching the sock colours to the shoe colours first.
Answer
Baba
Blue socks and Yellow shoes.
Boba
Yellow socks and Green shoes.
Bilpo
Green socks and Red shoes.
Babil
Red socks and Blue shoes.
Reasoning
We had these colours: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green.
We had these clowns: Baba, Boba, Bilpo, Babil.
Let's match sock colours to shoe colours.
By (1) Red socks went with Blue shoes.
By (6) Green socks went with Red shoes.
By (3) Yellows socks must have gone with Green shoes.
Therefore, Blue socks went with Yellow shoes – confirmed with (2).
In summary: Socks : Shoes
Red : Blue
Green : Red
Yellow : Green
Blue : Yellow
By (2) Baba had Blue socks and Yellow shoes.
By (4) Boba didn't have Red socks or Red shoes (and Baba had the Blue socks), so must have had Yellow socks and Green shoes.
By (5) Bilpo's shoes were the same colour as Babil's socks – we only have Red & Green socks left, and Blue & Red shoes. Therefore, Babil's socks can only have been Red (with Blue shoes).
Leaving Bilpo with Green socks and Red shoes.
Double-Checking
1. The red socks went with the blue shoes [Babil].
2. Baba had yellow shoes but not yellow socks [had Blue].
3. The clown with green shoes did not have blue socks [had Yellow].
4. Boba had neither red shoes nor red socks [had Green shoes and Yellow socks].
5. Bilpo's shoes were the same colour as Babil's socks [Red].
6. The clown with red shoes had green socks [Bilpo].
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Puzzle 2
Alex Smith was born on December 25th, 1971, yet their birthday is always in the summer.
Answers
foo + tpr + int = footprint
som + ewh + ere = somewhere
pin + eap + ple = pineapple
tec + hni + que = technique
ref + ere + nce = reference
pro + fes + sor = professor
bio + gra + phy = biography
clo + ckw + ise = clockwise
bar + ome + ter = barometer
The four clowns in this puzzle all competed for the much-prized 'Clown of the Year' award recently. There were 30 clowns in total who entered the competition and each had to make the judges laugh.
From the clues below, can you work out each clown's name, the town he or she came from, what place each clown was awarded and the most comical moment of each clown's routine?
The Budsworth clown finished one place lower than Strumpy who is not from Witfield. The judges roared with laughter as one clown cycled across a tightrope, wobbled, screamed and fell head first into a pool of water. He finished two places below Boo Boo who was not from Witfield. The clown who finished in 7th place lost points when her big red nose fell off during her manic routine. This involved being hit with a giant rubber mallet by her assistant who was supposed to hit her on the shoulder but unfortunately had something in his eye at the time and accidentally hit her in the face instead. Tambo was disappointed when his usually masterful custard pie antics failed to impress the judges sufficiently to secure the award. He was not the clown from Stockville whose final placing was lower than the Shrimpton clown.
Clowns : Boo Boo, Grego, Strumpy, Tambo
Towns : Budsworth, Shrimpton, Stockville, Witfield
Position : 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th
Routine : Custard Pie, Flower, Rubber Mallet, Unicycle
Answer Name Town # Routine Boo Boo Shrimpton 2nd Flower Strumpy Stockville 4th Unicycle Tambo Budsworth 5th Custard Pie Grego Whitfield 7th Rubber Mallet
The positions that the four clowns could finish are 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th. The Budsworth clown finished one place below Strumpy (1) so Strumpy must have been 4th and the Budsworth clown 5th. The (male) clown on the unicycle finished two places below Boo Boo (2) so must have been 7th or 4th. Since the clown who came 7th was female, the clown on the unicycle must have been 4th and is Strumpy and Boo Boo came 2nd. Tambo (male) is not the clown who came 7th (3), 2nd (Boo Boo) or 4th (Strumpy) so came 5th with his custard pie act (4) and Grego came 7th with her rubber mallet so by elimination, Boo Boo's act involved the flower. The Budsworth clown (Tambo) came 5th, neither Strumpy (1) nor Boo Boo (2) came from Whitfield so the clown from Whitfield was Grego (7th). The Shrimpton clown was placed higher than the Stockville clown (4) so came 2nd and the Stockville clown came 4th.
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