Puzzle 125
Paintballing Weekend - Logic Puzzles
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?
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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 126
What four related words are merged together?
TOUS RGQC URRO IAAN RLGS EEET ENE
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Hint
The words are all colours.
Answer
Orange, green, turquoise, scarlet.
Puzzle 127
A 'complete' word is a word in which every letter, in turn, can be replaced by another to form a new word.
For example, RUG is a complete word because:
-ug = hug
r-g = rig
ru- = run
How many of the following words are not complete words? Proper nouns and names are not allowed.
team
cost
flew
ward
fail
rook
soft
most
lamp
load
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Hint
Another example, PEN is a complete word because:
-en = ten
p-n = pin
pe- = pea
Answer
Three of the words are not complete: flew, rook, lamp.
Reasoning
The remaining 7 words can be changed as follows:
team:
-eam = beam
t-am = tram
te-m = term
tea- = tear
cost:
-ost = host
c-st = cast
co-t = coat
cos- = cosy
flew:
-lew = blew
f-ew = ---- *
fl-w = flow
fle- = flex
ward:
-ard = card
w-rd = word
wa-d = wand
war- = warm
fail:
-ail = nail
f-il = foil
fa-l = fall
fai- = fair
rook:
-ook = book
r-ok = ---- *
ro-k = rock
roo- = roof
soft:
-oft = loft
s-ft = sift
so-t = sort
sof- = sofa
most:
-ost = cost
m-st = mast
mo-t = moat
mos- = moss
lamp:
-amp = damp
l-mp = lump
la-p = ---- *
lam- = lamb
load:
-oad = road
l-ad = lead
lo-d = loud
loa- = loaf
Puzzle 128
This arrow is currently pointing from South to North.
Move one line and add one other to leave the arrow pointing from East to West.
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Hint
The arrow doesn't move.
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