Here's a Logic Problem I Wrote. Let Me Know if You Come up with the Answers
LOGIC PROBLEM: Who drinks the milk, and who owns the zebra? Show your work.
Analyze the following 13 clues to determine the answer to the questions: who drinks the milk, and who owns the zebra?
1) The Englishman lives in the green house.
2) The Frenchman drives powerboats.
3) The Russian drinks tomato juice, day and night.
4) The American is married to a redhead, but openly fantasizes about the Russian's wife.
5) Sometimes, if you look at the second floor windows of the orange house, you can see the Frenchman staring out through a pair of binoculars. This is how he spends his days.
6) The German can be seen around six o'clock every evening, hugging a carton of orange juice close to his chest, walking home from the Higgledy Piggledy grocery.
7) Looking through binoculars, you can usually make out the label on the cheap bottle of vodka that the German brings home along with the OJ.
8) Last Friday night, after a lot of yelling from the blue house, a woman stumbled out into the yard, her face covered in blood. The blood was actually tomato juice. The woman cried anyway.
9) The man living next to the blue house likes mountain bikes. This is why mountain bikes disappear consistently from 9th Street, a few blocks over. No one is allowed in this man's house—ever—because there are five or six bikes in the living room. He doesn't even ride them.
10) The man who does not live in the blue or orange house regularly receives brown unmarked packages in the mail. These packages are flimsy, and come in bundles, and it is obvious to the entire neighborhood that they are porno. People used to think the man was just shy, but now they think he's having too much fun alone in his bedroom to come to cookouts and yard parties. In a way it's sad, but mostly it's just disgusting.
11) The American found a magazine called Full Up in his wife's office downstairs. It was still halfway in its brown paper sack. He tells himself that it belongs to the man who does not live in the blue or orange house, but then he has to wonder: how did it get in here?
12) Every few weeks—sporadically enough that people forget after a few days—howling can be heard coming from the house of the man who drinks water. It was assumed that the man owned a dog, but that howling doesn't really sound like a dog's. What the hell does it mean?
13) The man who collects snails hasn't shown his face in weeks because he was caught in a tryst with the Russian's wife. The man was wearing a plaid skirt, and the wife wore office suspenders that clipped to her underpants. The Russian was livid. In his attic, there's a chest of farm tools from his grandfather Zolog's farm outside Cazadero. The Russian calmly pulled the man off the bed, then dragged him to the attic. He intended to do something horrible with the farm tools but remembered that most were rusty, and all were leather-and-steel implements without moving parts. A man who would wear a plaid skirt to fuck another man's wife might enjoy things like that.
Analyze the following 13 clues to determine the answer to the questions: who drinks the milk, and who owns the zebra?
1) The Englishman lives in the green house.
2) The Frenchman drives powerboats.
3) The Russian drinks tomato juice, day and night.
4) The American is married to a redhead, but openly fantasizes about the Russian's wife.
5) Sometimes, if you look at the second floor windows of the orange house, you can see the Frenchman staring out through a pair of binoculars. This is how he spends his days.
6) The German can be seen around six o'clock every evening, hugging a carton of orange juice close to his chest, walking home from the Higgledy Piggledy grocery.
7) Looking through binoculars, you can usually make out the label on the cheap bottle of vodka that the German brings home along with the OJ.
8) Last Friday night, after a lot of yelling from the blue house, a woman stumbled out into the yard, her face covered in blood. The blood was actually tomato juice. The woman cried anyway.
9) The man living next to the blue house likes mountain bikes. This is why mountain bikes disappear consistently from 9th Street, a few blocks over. No one is allowed in this man's house—ever—because there are five or six bikes in the living room. He doesn't even ride them.
10) The man who does not live in the blue or orange house regularly receives brown unmarked packages in the mail. These packages are flimsy, and come in bundles, and it is obvious to the entire neighborhood that they are porno. People used to think the man was just shy, but now they think he's having too much fun alone in his bedroom to come to cookouts and yard parties. In a way it's sad, but mostly it's just disgusting.
11) The American found a magazine called Full Up in his wife's office downstairs. It was still halfway in its brown paper sack. He tells himself that it belongs to the man who does not live in the blue or orange house, but then he has to wonder: how did it get in here?
12) Every few weeks—sporadically enough that people forget after a few days—howling can be heard coming from the house of the man who drinks water. It was assumed that the man owned a dog, but that howling doesn't really sound like a dog's. What the hell does it mean?
13) The man who collects snails hasn't shown his face in weeks because he was caught in a tryst with the Russian's wife. The man was wearing a plaid skirt, and the wife wore office suspenders that clipped to her underpants. The Russian was livid. In his attic, there's a chest of farm tools from his grandfather Zolog's farm outside Cazadero. The Russian calmly pulled the man off the bed, then dragged him to the attic. He intended to do something horrible with the farm tools but remembered that most were rusty, and all were leather-and-steel implements without moving parts. A man who would wear a plaid skirt to fuck another man's wife might enjoy things like that.
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