Answer
If you think that you are now in first place, then think again!
If you overtake the person in second place, you are now in second place yourself!
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Puzzle 223
My BrainBashers electronic world atlas has developed a fault, I did a listing of miles from Scotland to particular countries, and here is the result:
England 12,000 miles
Peru 6,000 miles
Egypt 9,000 miles
Iceland 11,000 miles
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
