Last evening, Dr. Gray and several friends met to play a few games of Clue. They played five games, and in each game the final outcome was with a different suspect in a different room with a different weapon (Mrs. Peacock didn't end up being chosen as a suspect that evening). Now let us leave Dr. Gray's home, and visit the living room of Mrs. Peacock (somewhere in another dimension).
There, the suspects are sitting around and some were complaining about the games which had been played at Dr. Gray's. It seems that of the six, five of them - Mrs. Peacock being the exception - have their own ideas of which weapon they would have used to commit the dire deed of dispensing with Mr. Boddy (the wrench was never considered). During the evening, the weapon which ended up being the weapon used during each of the games that Dr. Gray and his friends played, was the weapon of choice of one of the other suspects. From the clues, can you determine the suspect, room, and weapon for each game and also the weapon of choice of each suspect had he or she been consulted. Note: You will indeed have to use your imagination with this logic problem.
1. The suspect who "did it" in the Billiard Room (who isn't Col. Mustard) used the weapon which was the preferred weapon of Miss Scarlet (who didn't "do it" with the Rope).
2. During one game, the suspect who "did it" in the Study used the Candlestick.
3. Mr. Green (who didn't "do it" in either the Billiard Room or the Library) would have preferred ending up using the weapon which was actually used by Prof. Plum during the evening.
4. The suspect whose weapon of choice would have been the revolver ended up having committed the crime in the Kitchen.
5. Miss Scarlet did it with the weapon which was actually the preferred choice of weapons of the suspect who ended up during the evening "doing it" in the Hall.
6. The suspect whose weapon of choice was the Lead Pipe (who isn't Mrs. White) ended up during the game played at Dr. Grays' as using the Revolver.
7. During the evening, the suspect whose weapon of choice would have been the Knife ended up committing the murder with the weapon of choice of the suspect who ended using the Lead Pipe.
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WEAPON PREFERRED | WEAPON USED |
When it started raining Saturday afternoon, the attendant of the Ferris Wheel began to unload its sixteen riders. The eight couples who were riders included eight females - Amy, Barbara, Corinna, Fran, Jill, Liz, Melissa, and Sunny, and eight males - Ben, Clint, Dave, Everett, Joe, Luke, Mark, and Steve. Each of the Ferris Wheel's twelve seats was a different color - blue, green, lavender, lime, orange, peach, pink, red, turquoise, violet, white, or yellow.
From the clues can you determine the first names of each couple who occupied a seat, and the number and color of the seat each couple occupied? Note: The Ferris Wheel moves in a counter-clockwise direction, so that when loading and unloading, seat #1 would come before seat #2 and seat #2 before seat #3, and so on. The seats all face east.
1. No more than three consecutive seats were occupied, and exactly as many even-numbered seats were occupied as odd-numbered seats.
2. No couple shared the same first name initial. The first initial of the female occupant in seat #4 is the same as the first name of the male occupant of seat #8.
3. When Jill and her date got off, the couple at the top of the Ferris Wheel were in the pink seat. Jill and her date sat immediately behind the white seat and immediately in front of the orange seat.
4. As soon as the rain started, seat #6 was the first one whose occupants got off. Melissa and her date sat in seat #11. Seat #2 was an empty seat. Ben sat in the blue seat.
5. When the couple in the violet seat got off, Amy and Luke were in the seat at the top of the Ferris wheel. When Clint and his date got off the Ferris Wheel, the seat at the top was the yellow seat (which was next to the seat occupied by Liz and her date).
6. At the time that Dave and his date got off, there were exactly two couples left on the Ferris Wheel, including Steve and his date. Dave and his date sat in a seat directly across from the orange seat.
7. Mark and his date, and Barbara and her date (who sat directly across from one another) sat in seats whose colors began with the same initial.
8. At the time that Sunny and her date were able to get off the Ferris Wheel, they were sitting immediately behind the lavender seat, immediately in front of the green seat, and directly across from the unoccupied red seat.
9. The numbers of the green seat and the lime seat both contained the number 1. By the time each of these two seats were at the bottom position on the Ferris wheel, one of these seats was immediately behind the seat which Joe and his date had occupied, and the other was immediately behind the seat Ben and his date had occupied.
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