A big snow storm hit Weatherman’s Cove on Saturday morning, March 1, and by Monday morning the town was covered with 3 feet of white snow sparkling like diamonds beneath the sun-filled sky. The best part of all was that there was NO SCHOOL for the entire week! During the day, the Mayfield children built snowmen, igloos, and engaged in snowball fights. In the evenings, they sat around the dining room table after supper and worked on some 3D jigsaw puzzles that had been Christmas gifts, and which they had been saving for just an occassion. Each child had received a different 3D jigsaw puzzle for Christmas, and the six children completed a different jigsaw puzzle each evening, Monday through Saturday.
From the clues, determine the name of the Mayfield child who received each 3D jigsaw puzzle as a Christmas gift (one was a 3D jigsaw of Cardiff Castle) and the evening each week the children put it together. The children are three girls - Amy, Cassie, and Janie, and three boys - Donnie, Johnny, and Timmy.
1. The Taj Mahal puzzle, which they completed on Wednesday night, took them almost as long to put together as it did the 3D jigsaw of the Moscow Basillica, which they completed the following evening (which was the jigsaw puzzle Janie received for Christmas).
2. Timmy’s jigsaw puzzle was the one they completed the day after they worked one received by one of his sisters as a Christmas gift.
3. The children completed the 3D jigsaw puzzle Janie received the day before they worked the puzzle that Donnie received, and sometime later in the week than the puzzle that Amy received.
4. The 3D jigsaw puzzle that Johnny received for Christmas wasn’t the US Capitol Building, nor was his puzzle the one that they completed on Monday.
5. On Tuesday the children put together the beautiful 3D jigsaw puzzle of the Notre Dame Cathedral, and on Friday they assembled the towering Big Ben 3D jigsaw puzzle
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What teenager girl wouldn’t love to become Miss Teen America! Each city in the state has a beauty and talent contest in March each year to chose the contestant that will go up against other girls from other cities in their state to finally select the one which will represent their state in the Miss Teen America contest later in the year. Riverside’s winner this year was Cassandra Cade, who won from over a dozen entrants, and she was presented with a check along with a dozen red roses. The three runners-up, including Deanna Dole, also received roses as well, with each runner-up receiving a dozen roses of a different color.
From the clues, determine the name of each runner-up (first, second, or third) and the color of roses each teen received. Note: In contests like this, the third runner-ups name is called first, then the second, then the first, which leaves the remaining girl on the stage as the winner of the contest.
1. Neither Bethany Bell nor Amanda Ames received the pink roses.
2. The first runner-up in the Riverside competition this year received yellow roses.
3. The enchanting Bethany Bell was not the second-runner up.
4. When the name of the runner-up who received the white roses was called, at least two other girls, including Amanda Ames, was still waiting to see how they would place in the contest.
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Teresa Morgan was spending the morning baking cookies for an upcoming PTA meeting at her daughter’s school and her six-year old daughter asked if she might have four cookies, each of a different type, for a little tea party she was giving in her bedroom. A bit later Teresa looked in and saw her daughter, along with her daughter’s Raggedy Ann doll, cabbage patch doll, and favorite teddy bear (each of which had named a different girl’s name), sitting around a little table in the bedroom drinking *tea* and having cookies. Naturally, it was Teresa’s daughter who ended up eating all the cookies!
From the clues, determine the name of each party participant - Clarissa, Gretchen, Mary, or Suzie, the type of cookie in front of each guest (one was a sugar cookie), and the order in which each cookie was eventually eaten by Teresa’s daughter (1st through 4th).
1. The cookie in front of Suzie as eaten sometime before Teresa’s daughter ate her own cookie, which is turn was eaten sometime before the peanut butter cookie was eaten.
2. Gretchen is not the name of the teddy bear. Suzie is not the name of the cabbage patch doll.
3. Three cookies eaten in order where the one Clarissa ate, the cookie in front of the cabbage patch doll, and the oatmeal cookie.
4. The Raggedy Ann doll (whose name is neither Gretchen or Mary) wasn’t the party guest who started out with the chocolate chip cookie on the plate in front of her.
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Amber had completed the driver’s education class at school and had gotten her beginners driver’s license, so naturally Amber couldn’t drive without another person in the car that had a regular driver’s license. Usually Amber rode home from school with a friend who lived nearby, but last week her friend was down with the flu, and so on each day that week (Monday through Friday), a different family member - brother, cousin, mother, sister, or uncle, picked Amber up at school. Each allowed Amber to drive his or her car home in order to get experience, and each owned a different type of car - Buick, Chevy, Ford, Mercury, or Toyota.
From the clues, determine the day each family member (Bethany, Mitch, Randall, Sarah, or Thomas), picked Amber up, his or her relationship to Amber, and the type of car each drove.
1. On Tuesday, Amber drove quick well, but the owner of the Chevy (who wasn’t her uncle) gritted his teeth the entire way to Amber’s house, fearing the worse at every corner.
2. On three consecutive days, in order from earliest in the week to latest, Amber got to drive her cousin’s car, the Mercury (which wasn’t her uncle’s car), and Sarah’s car.
3. Amber was picked up at school by the owner of the Toyota the day immediately after Mitch picked her up and the day immediately before her sister picked her up.
4. One day Amber got to drive Randall’s Ford Mustang, which had really neat mag wheels.
5. Amber’s brother picked her up sometime later in the week than an least two other family members.
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| DAY OF WEEK | RELATIVE'S NAME | RELATIONSHIP | TYPE OF CAR |