At the recent BrainBashers downhill mountain bike race, four entrants entered the challenging slalom event.
Alex finished in first position. The entrant wearing number #2 wore red, but Drew didn't wear yellow. The person in last place wore blue, and Stevie wore number #1. Glen beat Stevie, and the person who finished in second wore number #3. The entrant in yellow beat the entrant in green. Only one of the entrants wore the same number as their final position.
Can you determine who finished where, the number, and colour they each wore?
Hint
Start by looking at where Alex finished, and where the person who wore #3 finished, and then use clue (6).
Answer Pos Name Wore Colour
1 Alex #2 red
2 Glen #3 yellow
3 Stevie #1 green
4 Drew #4 blue
Reasoning
The four colours were: blue, green, red, yellow.
The four contestants were: Alex, Drew, Glen, Stevie.
By (1), Alex was first.
1 Alex
2
3
4
By (4), the person who was second wore number #3.
1 Alex
2 #3
3
4
Looking at (6):
- first place (Alex) can't have worn #1, because, by (3), Stevie wore #1
- second place wore #3
- third place can't have worn #3, because it was worn by second place
- fourth place is the only entrant who could have worn the same number as their final position
Therefore, Stevie finished in third, and Alex wore #2.
1 Alex #2
2 #3
3 Stevie #1
4 #4
By (2), Alex wore red. By (3), the person wearing blue was last.
1 Alex #2 red
2 #3
3 Stevie #1
4 #4 blue
By (5), yellow beat green.
1 Alex #2 red
2 #3 yellow
3 Stevie #1 green
4 #4 blue
By (4), Glen beat Stevie.
1 Alex #2 red
2 Glen #3 yellow
3 Stevie #1 green
4 #4 blue
Leaving Drew in last place.
1 Alex #2 red
2 Glen #3 yellow
3 Stevie #1 green
4 Drew #4 blue
During an exciting weekend of paintball, four friends were having great fun.
The paintballs came in blue, green, yellow and red.
Coincidentally, the four friends had T-shirts in those same colours.
Billie used blue paintballs. The person in the green T-shirt used yellow paintballs. Charlie was not wearing a red T-shirt. Drew used green paintballs and wore a blue T-shirt. Alex was the only person who used paint which was the same colour as their T-shirt.
Can you tell which colour paint they each used and the colour of their respective T-shirts?
Hint
Start by using clues (1) and (4), and then look at clues (5) and (2) to find who wore the green T-shirt.
Answer Wore Paint
Alex red red
Billie yellow blue
Charlie green yellow
Drew blue green
Reasoning
By (1), Billie used Blue paintballs: Wore Paint
Alex
Billie blue
Charlie
Drew
By (4), Drew used Green paintballs and wore a Blue T-shirt: Wore Paint
Alex
Billie blue
Charlie
Drew blue green
By (5), Alex was the only person who used paint that was the same colour as their T-shirt, which means by (2) that Charlie wore the Green T-shirt and used Yellow paintballs: Wore Paint
Alex
Billie blue
Charlie green yellow
Drew blue green
This leaves Alex with the Red paintballs, and by (1), the Red T-shirt. Wore Paint
Alex red red
Billie blue
Charlie green yellow
Drew blue green
Leaving Billie wearing Yellow. Wore Paint
Alex red red
Billie yellow blue
Charlie green yellow
Drew blue green
???
Puzzle 20
Place the words below into pairs.
You will then have 5 lots of eight letters, each of which is an anagram of at least one other word.
Can you find the 5 pairings, and at least one anagram each?
