This past weekend, the six ClueJo characters - Dr. Gray, Inspector Black, Lady Melon, Miss Lavender, Mrs. Bluebell, and Sir Sable, traveled to America to visit their Clue suspect friends - Col. Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, and Prof. Plum. All twelve had recently returned from vacationing in a different European country (one person had vacationed in Belgium) , and had arrived in America in time to celebrate America’s Independence Day.
The village was going all out in celebration of the Fourth of July, with a parade and fireworks, and food pavilions, and booths lining the Main Street selling all types of wares. In one area, two of the village’s local artists - Anne Alden and Dago Diablo, had their paintings on display, and all twelve of our friends ended up buying one painting. Between the two local artists, there were six pictures painted in oil and six in watercolors. Also between the two artists, the pictures available for sale included four landscapes, four seascapes, and four still life’s. Later, after returning home, each person hung the painting he or she had bought in a different location in their home (the ClueJo characters, naturally, had to wait until after they returned home to England).
From the clues, determine the European country where each person had vacationed, the name of the artist of the painting each had purchased, the subject of each painting and the medium with which it was painted, and the location in each person’s home where each painting was hung.
1. Each of three of the characters hung his or her painting in his or her hallway, three in his or her living room, three in his or her library, and three in his or her study.
2. Both Mrs. White (who hung her painting in her study) and the character who had vacationed in Spain (who hung his or her painting in his or her library) purchased landscapes.
3. Mrs. Peacock (who didn’t buy a landscape) is not the person who vacationed in Denmark. Dr. Gray, who did purchase one of the landscapes, didn’t not hang his picture in his hallway.
4. Mrs. Bluebell and the person who vacationed in Scotland either both bought paintings done in oil or both paintings done in watercolor.
5. Lady Melon, who vacationed in Italy, purchased a picture by Dago Diablo and hung it in her living room. At least one person who purchased a Dago Diablo painting decided on his or her hallway as the best place to display his or her purchase.
6. Three people who purchased seascapes are the person who vacationed in Denmark, the person who vacationed in Portugal, and the person who vacationed in Norway (who was neither Col. Mustard nor Miss Lavender).
7. Both Inspector Black and the person who vacationed in Austria (who purchased a picture by Anne Alden) ended up hanging their paintings in the same rooms in their homes (which was not the library).
8. The man who vacationed in Ireland and Mrs. Peacock both hung their paintings in the same room in their homes, which was either in their hallways or their libraries; one of them purchases a watercolor painting and one purchased an oil painting, neither of which were seascapes.
9. Two people who both purchased landscapes done in watercolor are Miss Scarlet and the person who vacationed in Sweden (who didn’t hang his or her painting in his or her study).
10. Col. Mustard isn’t the person who vacationed in Portugal and purchased a painting done in oil.
11. The person who vacationed in Denmark hung his or her painting in his or her living room, as did Mrs. Bluebell (who had purchased a painting by Dago Diablo).
12. Both the person who vacationed in Switzerland and the person who vacationed in Scotland purchased paintings done by Anne Alden.
13. Mr. Green (who didn’t purchase a still life) decided to display the painting he bought in his library, as did Sir Sable (who had vacationed in Finland).
14. Three of the six characters who purchased pictures painted by Dago Diablo ended up hanging their pictures in their studies, and of these three characters, two purchased watercolor paintings and one purchased an oil painting.
15. Either both Sir Sable and the person who vacationed in Austria (who purchased a landscape) bought watercolor paintings, or they both bought oil paintings.
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Just last week, Everett knew that this week he was going to start work on a new game, so he wanted to get some things done. On each afternoon last week, Monday through Friday, Everett made a trip to town to run an errand and got one of his family members to accompany him so they could spend some private time together - his father, Calvin; his sister, Donna; his brother, John; his son, Shane; and his wife, Sharon, in some order.
Each day the pair in question visited a different business (one was the gardening center) and then stopped at a different establishment to grab something to eat (one was Captain Hook’s Fishin’ Hole), and while there, ran into another family member - his brother-in-law, Jerry; his niece, Julie; his sister-in-law, Lori; his brother, Norman; and his mother, Wilma, in some order. From the clues, determine the family member who accompanied Everett each day, the business visited each day, and the family member Everett and his companion ran into at each eating establishment.
1. On three consecutive days, in order from first to last, the supermarket was the business visited, Ray’s Bar-B-Que was the eating establishment of choice, and Everett was accompanied by his father, Calvin (which wasn’t the day they ran into Everett’s mother, Wilma).
2. Everett and his wife, Sharon, spent the day together the day immediately after the day the business visited was the pet store and the day immediately before he and his companion ran into his sister-in-law, Lori.
3. Everett and his brother, John, made an excursion into town the day immediately before Everett and his companion that day visited the Farmer’s Market.
4. The day Everett and his companion ate at Burger Queen wasn’t the day they happened to run into Jerry.
5. On three consecutive days, in order from first to last, the hardware store was the business visited, Everett and his companion ran into Everett’s mother, Wilma, and the Pizza Palace was the eating establishment of choice.
6. Everett and his sister, Donna, made a trip into town the day immediately before the day Everett and another family member ran into his niece, Julie.
7. Everett’s companion the day they ran into his brother Norman (which wasn’t at Taco-Trico) wasn’t his son Shane,
8. On the day that Everett and one family member spent time at the Farmer’s Market wasn’t the day that they ate at Burger Queen.
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Stefano can’t be called a true gourmet, but since he is maître d’ at Gordinno’s Italian Restaurant, he is around some of the finest food in the world. In his own home, he turns out some mighty fine meals, but . . . there are exceptions. For example, after spending a day toiling in the yard, he works up such an appetite that just about anything will taste good. Last Saturday, Stefano did some work around his house from dawn to dusk, and the evening before, he had thawed, sliced and fried up a large slab of bacon he had in his freezer.
As Stefano toiled diligently, he took five breaks throughout the day to make himself a sandwich in order to keep his strength up. Each sandwich was made with bacon (of course!) along with a different kind of cheese (Brie, Cheddar, Edam, Parmesan, or Swiss) on a different kind of bread (buttermilk, Kugelhupf, pumpernickel, rye, or whole wheat). For nourishment, Stefano added a different vegetable to each sandwich - bean sprouts, chopped olives, green tomatoes, parsley sprigs, or sliced radishes, and he added a different spread for taste - horseradish sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, or peanut butter.
From the clues, determine the complete makin’s of each bacon sandwich that he devoured last Saturday. Er, the last I heard, Stefano was still alive and kickin’! :-)
1. Neither the sandwich with Swiss cheese nor the sandwich with sliced radishes was made on either Kugelhupf or Pumpernickel bread.
2. The bacon and Parmesan cheese sandwich was made with either mustard or ketchup.
3. Chopped olives weren’t one of the ingredients added to the sandwiches made on either whole wheat bread or rye bread (neither of which was made with mayonnaise).
4. The sandwich Stefano made with Brie cheese wasn’t spread with mayonnaise.
5. Edam cheese (which wasn’t added to the sandwich made with buttermilk bread) wasn’t added to the sandwiches which Stefano embellished with either parsley sprigs or green tomatoes.
6. Neither the sandwich made with Cheddar cheese (which wasn’t spread with mustard or horseradish sauce) nor the sandwich made with chopped olives was spread with mayonnaise.
7. Neither mustard not ketchup was added to the sandwich made on Kugelhupf bread, which wasn’t made with bean sprouts or chopped olives.
8. The sandwich which Stefano made on homemade buttermilk bread (which wasn’t made with Swiss cheese) wasn’t spread with mustard or peanut butter.
9. The sandwich to which Stefano added parsley sprigs (which wasn't made on the whole wheat bread) wasn’t the sandwich he spread with a good helping of horseradish sauce.
10. Peanut butter wasn’t the spread of choice for the sandwich made with either parsley sprigs or green tomatoes.
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