Even though Dr. Gray retired sometime ago, like a lot of small town doctors, he never really fully retired. In fact, since his ‘official’ retirement, which he took early since he is only 60-years old, he has decided to now take full retirement. “Yeah, right! is the opinion of most of his friends.” However, five of his closest friends decided to treat him to a retirement dinner, and Dr. Gray thought it might be nice to dine in his favorite restaurant in - Paris! So off they all went to Paris and got settled into their rooms at one of the city’s best hotels.
As it turned out, each ended up with a room on a different floor (2nd through 6th, and Dr. Gray had a room on the 7th floor), and each room had a door of a different color - blue, green, orange, red, or yellow. They had planned to meet in the lobby the evening of the retirement dinner at 8:00 PM sharp, but Dr. Gray waited some time and by 8:30 not one of his friends had appeared. He finally decided to go round them up - as they knew he would, and each had hung a different sign outside his or her door as a joke (one of said “Out to Brunch!”).
However, after finally rounding them up after a few laughs, off they all trooped to a wonderful dinner. Can you determine the floor on which each friend got a room, the color of the door of each individual’s room, and the sign each had hung on their door as a joke for Dr. Gray?
1. One of Dr. Gray’s friends had a room with a green door, which was exactly one floor down from the room where he found a sign which said Enter at Your Own Risk , which was exactly one floor down from Lady Melon’s room.
2. Sir Sable’s room is located exactly two floors above that of the friend whose room has the blue door (which isn’t Inspector Black’s room).
3. Mrs. Bluebell isn’t the friend who hung out the sign saying Busy Day Dreaming. The person who did hang out the sign saying Busy Day Dreaming had a room exactly two floors higher than the friend whose hotel door was orange.
4. Three of Dr. Gray’s friends are the one who had the room with the red door (who wasn’t Miss Lavender), the one who had the room with the yellow door, and the one who hung out the sign saying X-ray In Use.
5. Sir Sable, whose hotel room door isn’t green, is not the friend whose sign said Enter at Your Own Risk .
6. One woman had hung out a sign saying In the Water Closet, which made Dr. Gray crack-up laughing as he knocked loudly and hollered “Police! Open up!”
7. Inspector Black’s room is exactly one floor below the one where Dr. Gray found the X-ray In Use sign.
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| FRIEND'S NAME | FLOOR | DOOR COLOR | SIGN HUNG ON DOOR |
Not long ago, Everett and several members of his family visited some friends who lived in England. Their friends live in an old Manse, complete with beautiful gardens and a rather intriguing circular maze. During their visit, Everett and each member of his family (his wife, Sharon, his daughter, Megan, his son, Shane, Everett’s sister Donna, Donna’s husband Jerry, and their son Scott) had occasion to enjoy the maze. On the last day of their visit, Everett and his friend, Max, took a stroll through the maze, where they happened upon six different objects.
It appeared that each object had been lost in the maze by a different member of Everett’s family during one of their walks, but the found object did not necessarily belong to the person who had lost it. The items were found in order of their positions with the item in position A found first, the item in position B found second, and so on, through position F.
From the clues, can you determine the position of each object found by Everett and his friend, the person who lost each object, the person to whom the object belonged? NOTE: The necklace, earring, and class ring are the properties of female family members, and the key chain, cuff link, and pocket watch are the properties of male family members.
1. In exactly two instances did an individual lose an item which happened to belong to a person of a different gender.
2. The cuff link, which was found in position C, was not lost by Donna.
3. The necklace was found in a location somewhere east of where Everett and Max came upon the key chain.
4. Sharon had lost the item which belonged to Jerry and which she in turn had found on the piano in the Music Room and had just not had a chance to return it to him.
5. Everett and Max came upon Donna’s earring at a position directly south of where they had early discovered the object lost by Jerry.
6. The pocket watch, which wasn’t lost by Megan, was found in the maze in a position directly east of the object Everett and Max found which belonged to Megan.
7. The object found in position B both was lost by a female family member.
8. In consecutive order, as they strolled through the maze, Everett and Max found the object belonging to Donna, the object lost by Donna, and the object belonging to a male family member who lost his Mother’s earring.
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When Stefano’s niece, Elizabeth, approached him about participating in her school’s upcoming fund raiser, he was rather flattered. He found that during the afternoon in question, he would be in the Dunk Tank and as the weatherman had promised a rather exceptionally hot day, Stefano hoped to get dunked as often as possible!
The cost was one ticket per throw of the ball, unless of course you hit the mark. Then one got a free throw. During the two hours that Stefano spent in the Dunk Tank, there were five different children who ended up throwing the ball several times for the cost of one ticket (2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 times). Each child was in a different grade - 2nd through 6th.
To encourage the children, Stefano would throw taunts at them. However, in each of the five cases mentioned above, the child (one of whom is Kevin) got to laughing so hard, he or she finally missed the mark and failed to dunk Stefano. From the clues, determine the name and grade level of each child who got more than their money’s worth out of each ticket, the number of times that each ended up throwing the ball, and the final taunt that finally ended their streak of luck!
1. Stefano’s taunt of “Hey shortie, your owner know you’re off the leash?” caused Emily to miss the paddle by several inches.
2. The 2nd-grader is neither Thomas nor the child whose final taunt was “Yo, Kid, those freckles or have you got the measles?” Carrie is in the 4th grade.
3. The 5th-grader ended up throwing the ball the most times before his or her streak came to a screeching halt, mainly due to a case of the hiccups from laughing so hard.
4. It was the 6th-grader whose throwing streak came to an end after only two throws of the ball with the taunt “Whoa there kiddo, only Earthlings are allowed to play!”
5. Emily is in one grade higher (and got in exactly two throws more) than the child whose final taunt from Stefano was “Wow, those ears flap in the wind much, kid?”
6. Uriah, who isn’t the 2nd-grader, doubled over in laughter with the taunt “Say kid, I’ve seen better arms than yours on a rocking chair!” and didn’t even bother trying to throw again.
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| FIRST NAME | GRADE | NUMBER THROWS | FINAL TAUNT MADE |