For Valentine’s Day, Charity and four other women received beautiful musical water globes from their husbands. The gift was a combination Valentine’s gift and Wedding Anniversary gift as each couple had been married on Valentine’s Day. Each water globe had a different beautiful feature - angel with harp, butterflies, rose blooms, unicorn, or waltzing couple, and each played a different song - one of which is “We’ve only Just Begun.”
From the clues given, can you determine the number of years each woman had been married to her spouse (1, 2, 4, 6, or 7 years), the feature in the water globe each received, and the song played by each musical water globe?
1. Hope has been married for exactly one year longer than the woman who received the musical water globe with the white unicorn.
2. Patience, who received the water globe which played “Wind Beneath My Wings,” has been married exactly three years longer than the woman who received the water globe with the angel playing a harp.
3. The woman who received the water globe with the rose blooms has been married for fewer years than the woman whose water globe featured butterflies.
4. Joy, who has been married to her husband for exactly four years, received the water globe which played either “Greensleeves” or “Over the Rainbow.”
5. Neither the water globe received by Hope nor the water globe with the unicorn played either “Greensleeves” or “Love Story.”
6. Faith has been married for fewer years than the woman whose musical water globe played “Over the Rainbow” (which is not the water globe featuring the rose blooms).
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| WOMAN | YEARS MARRIED |
GLOBE FEATURE | MUSICAL TUNE |
The weekend immediately following Valentine’s Day, the six Clue suspects got together to share their experiences and show slides of some of the natural wonders they had visited during each ones previous summers’ vacation. Each suspect had visited three different popular vacation spots and among them all, they spent some time at six different areas in America - the Badlands, Crater Lake, Devil’s Tower, Everglades, Mammoth Cave, or the Petrified Forest. No two individuals visited the exact same three places, and each natural wonder was visited by exactly three individuals.
From the clues provided, determine the three different natural wonders each person had visited during their summer vacation travels.
1. Two of the three individuals who spent some time exploring the Florida Everglades also visited the Petrified Forest in Arizona.
2. Between Col. Mustard and Mr. Green, they visited all six natural wonders.
3. South Dakota’s spectacular Badlands was visited by both Mr. Green and Mrs. White. Although neither Mr. Green nor Mrs. White spent any time at Crater Lake in Oregon, both Col. Mustard and Miss Scarlet did.
4. Mr. Green visited exactly two natural formations which were also visited by Miss Scarlet, and Mrs. White visited exactly one natural formation which was also visited by Miss Scartlet.
5. Both Col. Mustard and Prof. Plum showed slides of their visit to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Neither Col. Mustard or Prof. Plum visited the Petrified Forest, although both Miss Scarlet and Mrs. Peacock did.
6. Devils Tower in Wyoming was visited by both Mrs. Peacock and Mrs. White.
7. Prof. Plum ended up spending several more days than originally intended in the Everglades, as he found them utterly fascinating.
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| CHARACTER | NATURAL WONDER #1 | NATURAL WONDER #2 | NATURAL WONDER #3 |
Everett had been working on the Kaser Family genealogy for some time and finally had gotten enough to put together an outline dating back to the early 1700's. He then invited his parents (Wilma and Calvin), his maternal grandparents ( Marie and Emer), his paternal grandparents (Sarah and Fred) to join him and his wife, Sharon, along with his three siblings - Donna, John, and Norman, and their spouses - Jerry, Lori, and Sue, for dinner at a local restaurant. As each ordered his or her drink (one of the woman ordered water), Everett began to hand out the genealogical outlines.
He had two copies made of each outline. One was factual in every detail, but in the second copy - the one he handed out first, he had done some fiddling with the information. In each of these copies he had inserted a different famous (or infamous) figure into the outline - including three U.S. Presidents (one of whom is John Q. Adams)! The family ended up having a lot of fun over those supposedly ancestors.
Can you determine the seating arrangement of each person (A through L), what drink each ordered with his or her meal (one person ordered milk), and what famous/infamous person was included in the copy of the genealogical outline that he or she first received?
1. Norman’s wife, Sue, found Annie Oakley listed among the Kaser family ancestors. Sue sat directly across from the person who discovered he or she was related to Jesse James.
2. Neither Wilma (who found she was related to President James Monroe!) nor Fred ordered coffee (which was ordered by a person who also got an outline with a U.S. President listed an as ancestor).
3. Calvin, who ordered a wine cooler to go with his meal, got the outline with Ethan Allen listed as an ancestor. The person who ordered Dr. Pepper and the person who ordered Sprite with their meals sat on the same side of the table.
4. Fred (who was astonished to think - for a short time - that he was related to Thomas Jefferson), sat on the south side of the table, directly across from the person who ordered a mug of beer to drink.
5. Donna sat to Calvin's immediate right and to the immediate left of the person who found Meriweather Lewis (of the famous explorers Lewis & Clark) listed among his or her ancestors.
6. In consecutive order, from west to east, five people seated side-by-side on one side of the table were the person who ordered a Pepsi, Lori, the person who found Daniel Boone listed among his ancestors, Sarah, and the person who found Calamity Jane listed as an ancestor.
7. The woman who ordered root beer with her meal laughed out loud when she saw Ma Barker listed on the outline, while the woman who ordered hot tea acted puzzled to find Kit Carson listed.
8. Norman and John (who found Billy the Kid on his outline), sat at diagonally opposite ends of the table. The man who ordered the Diet Pepsi sat directly across from the person who found Calamity Jane listed as an ancestor on the genealogical outline.
9. Donna and the woman who ordered a Sprite with her meal are the only two of the same gender who sat next to one another. Everett’s maternal grandmother, Marie, sat directly across from the woman who ordered hot tea.
10. The three outlines which included U.S. Presidents as ancestors were handed out to the person who sat directly across from the person who found Ethan Allen listed on his or her outline, and to two family members seated at diagonally opposite ends of the table.
11. Emer and the person who ordered iced tea received the outlines which included among the ancestors Annie Oakley and Daniel Boone, in some order.
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