Stefano has been a head waiter at Gordino’s Italian Restaurant for more years that he likes to remember, and after all that time, he has gotten rather tired of dining on Italian dishes. About a year ago, Monday through Friday, he began to eat his lunch at one of five different cafes within walking distance of his job. Although each cafe serves a number of sandwiches, exactly one cafe each has agreed to serve Stefano one particular type of sandwich exactly to his liking - each one very unusual to be precise!. Stefano always visits the same cafe on the same day of the week. Indeed, he even sits at the same table at each establishment and is served by the same waitress or waiter each time.
From the clues, can you determine the name of the cafe Stefano visits on each weekday (one is Allie’s Deli) , the sandwich of choice ordered at each cafe, and the name of the waitress or waiter who serves his each day (one is Doris)?
1. Stefano dines at The Sandwich Shoppe sometime earlier in the week than when he visites the cafe where he can get a liver and tomato sandwich served on honey wheat bread.
2. Pete’s Place and the cafe where Stefano can get a peanut butter and cucumber sandwich are his Monday and Tuesday stops, in some order.
3. Crystal is Stefano’s waitress sometime later in the week than when he enjoys a mouthwatering (that is his word for it!) sliced apple and cabbage sandwich, which is sometime later in the week than when he has lunch at the Village Inn.
4. Stefano is waited on by Greg sometime earlier in the week than when he is waited on by Ron. Neither Greg nor Ron are employed at the cafe where Stefano enoys a grape jelly and onion sandwich.
5. Exactly three days after Stefano dines at The Home Cafe he enjoys flirting with Dawn while she serves him his standing order.
6. Tuesday is not the day that the cook at one establishment fixes Stefano (in his opinion) a disgusting cottage cheese and raisin sandwich.
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| DAY OF WEEK | RESTAURANT | SANDWICH ORDERED | WAITER/WAITRESS |
Mrs. White knew that Dr. Gray’s sixty-first birthday was coming up, and since Clue is his favorite game, she decided to make him a quilt appliquéd with symbols from the clue game. The quilt was to have 8 symbols, two each of the candlestick, knife, lead pipe, revolver, rope, and wrench, as well as two each of the green token (the one Dr. Gray prefers to use when he plays) and two each with the word Clue. She placed the squares with the appliques in no particular order on the quilt.
From the clues, can you determine which two squares on the quilt (lettered A through P in the diagram) are matching? Note: “left” and “right” are to the solver’s left and right as they look at the diagram.
1. The squares with the candlestick are in squares A and K. The applique in square C matches that in square J, and the applique in square F matches that in square M.
2. Mrs. White got so carried away trying to place the squares depicting the weapons, she didn’t realize until all was sewn together that she had placed the two squares with the word CLUE next to one another, with one directly above the other.
3. The two squares depicting the wrench are diagonal from one another, touching in the corner. One is the to immediate left of a square depicting the lead pipe, and the other is to the immediately left of a square depicting the revolver.
4. Both squares depicting the knife are in corner positions. One of the squares with the knife applique is directly below the row in which a square depicting the green token can be found.
5. Three consecutive squares in one row, from left to right, are squares appliquéd with the revolver, the rope, and the green token.
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During one week end March, in fact it was the week immediately following St. Patrick’s Day, the Kasers stayed at the Resounding Resort in Echo Valley. One of the activities available each day is horseback riding, and the Kasers love to ride horses. On each day, Monday through Friday, one of the five adults - Everett, his wife Sharon, his brother Norman, his sister Donna, or Donna’s husband Jerry, went out with two of the young Kasers - Everett and Sharon’s daughter Megan and son Shane, Donna and Jerry’s daughter Julie and son Scott, and Norman’s son Seth.
They would have loved to ride as a family, but, unfortunately, there were other guests at the ranch and so it was that on each day, only three horses were available. To decide which two of the five young people would ride, several straws were cut to various sizes, and the two who got the longest and shortest straw would ride that day. How they decided on which adult would go is unknown and probably just as well!
From the clues, determine which adult and two young people rode each day, as well as which young person drew the longest straw and which drew the shortest straw.
1. Each young person ended up getting to ride on two different days of the week. On one day, he or she drew the long straw and on another day, he or she drew the short straw.
2. Megan drew the shortest straw the day immediately preceding the day that Jerry rode (which was the day that Megan drew the longest straw).
3. Shane drew the longest straw the day immediately before the day Norman went out to ride.
4. On Tuesday, Julie drew the longest straw. The day Julie drew the shortest straw was the day that Seth drew the longest straw.
5. Scott drew the shortest straw the day that Everett rode. Donna rode on Thursday.
6. Seth drew the shortest straw on Friday, which was not the day that Megan drew the longest straw.
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| DAY OR WEEK | ADULT RIDER | LONG STRAW | SHORT STRAW |