This was the first year Mr. Boddy entered the yearly Chili Cook Off, sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce to raise money for various projects around the city, and he walked away with the winning prize - a set of copper-coated cookware. The Chili Cook-Off was held each year on the spacious grounds of the Boddy Mansion, and each year’s winner was presented with his or her prize in a different room of the Boddy Mansion during a special ceremony. Prof. Plum, who won in 1999, and the other five Clue suspects had won in each of the preceding six years (1997 through 2002), and no one person won in more than one year. Each confided that he or she had won because of a special ingredient added to his or her chili.
From the clues, determine which suspect won in each year, the ingredient each added to his or her chili, the prize each suspect won (one person won an ice cream maker), and the room where the ceremony was held each year.
1. The person whose special ingredient was coriander (who wasn’t Mr. Green) wasn’t the one who won the 20-piece casserole set.
2. Miss Scarlet (who wasn’t the winner the year the ceremony was held in the Study) won the year immediately before the year that the winning prize was a bread maker (who didn’t win the year the ceremony was held in the Lounge). The special ingredient of the person who won the bread maker was cilantro.
3. Neither the person whose special ingredient was fennel, nor the person whose special ingredient was chervil was the one who won the casserole set.
4. The person who received his or her prize during the ceremony in the Conservatory received his or her prize the year immediately following the year that one person won the gas grill (who wasn’t the person whose special ingredient was fennel).
5. The person who won the year that the ceremony was held in the Lounge is neither the person whose special ingredient was cayenne peppers or the person who won the gas grill.
6. Mrs. White wasn’t the winner in either the year that the ceremony was held in the Conservatory or the year the ceremony was held in the Ballroom. The ceremony in the Library took place the year immediately before the ceremony held in the Billiard Room.
7. The special ingredient Col. Mustard (who won the year immediately following the year Mrs. Peacock took the prize) added to his chili wasn’t coriander or fennel.
8. Mr. Green (whose special ingredient wasn’t fennel) won the year immediately before the year the winning prize was the Teflon bakeware (which wasn’t given during the ceremony in the Lounge).
9. The winner of the set of chef’s knives didn’t win in either the year 2000 or the year 2001.
10. The person whose special ingredient was horseradish (who didn’t win the casserole set) and the person who received his or her prize in the Lounge won in years immediately before and immediately after the year that the winning prize was a set of chef’s knives, in some order.
11. Mrs. Peacock wasn’t the person who won the Teflon bakeware, which was not the prize won in 1998. It wasn’t in 2002 that the ceremony was held in the Study or the Billiard Room.
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St. Patrick’s Day is one a Monday this year, but the Kaser family celebrated it on Saturday this year. After attending the St. Patrick’s Day parade, the various members of the family loaded up and headed for the lake for an afternoon or picnicking and entertaining. Everett and several of the male members of the family - Everett’s son Shane, his father Calvin, his brother John, and his sister’s son, Scott - dug out their musical instruments (one of which was a fiddle) and played some good old Irish folk songs!
Although each man wore a pair of black pants and a black vest, each wore a different brightly colored shirt (one was a blinding yellow). In addition, to just get into the holiday spirit, each man also wore a different type of hat atop a wig! Each wig was a different color - brown, black, blonde, gray, or red, and each wig was of three different styles -short and curly, long and straight, or pulled back into a ponytail. They all looked quite ridiculously cute, which was the idea, and everyone had a wonderful time!
From the clues, can you determine the color of shirt each man wore, the hat and wig each sported as headwear, and the musical instrument each played?
1. Four of the musicians were Everett, the one who wore the brown wig with a ponytail, the one who wore the black wig which was short and curly, and the one who played the recorder.
2. Both the musician who wore the shocking pink shirt and the musician who wore the beret wore wigs that had ponytails.
3. Either Calvin and the family member who wore the lime green shirt wore the porkpie hat and the top hat, in some order, or else neither of them wore the porkpie hat and the top hat.
4. Neither Everett nor the musician who played the recorder is the person who wore the sombrero (who didn’t wear a wig that was short and curly).
5. Calvin didn’t play the drums. The family member who wore the shiny light blue shirt didn’t play the cymbals. The guitar wasn’t the instrument played by the band member who wore the beret.
6. Everett isn’t the person who wore the porkpie hat atop a wig which was blonde and had a pony tail (which wasn’t the person who wore the bright orange shirt).
7. The five members of the band are Shane, the one who wore the orange shirt (who didn’t wear the beanie), the one who wore the sombrero (whose wig wasn’t pulled back in a ponytail), the one who wore the wig that was red in color and long and straight in style, and the one who played the cymbals.
8. Scott isn’t the musician who wore the top hat (who isn’t the person who played the guitar).
9. If the person who wore the light blue shirt wore a wig that was straight in style, then John also wore a wig that was straight in style, or else neither of them did.
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A local square dance group, which meets every Monday evening, decided to forgo the evening’s dance activities and go out and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by dining at Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant instead. Five couples from the group arrived on time for their reservation and were shown to their reserved table by the restaurant’s Mâitre d’, our very own Stefano! As it turned out, Stefano also ended up being their waiter for the evening.
Sporting a green shamrock on his lapel, Stefano was happy to see that each individual in the party (including Trixie) also wore some item of clothing or clothing accessory which contained the color green, keeping with the St. Patrick’s Day tradition.
From the clues, determine the first and last names of each of the five couples, the chair where each sat around the table (numbered 1 through 10 in the diagram), and the item of clothing or accessory which each wore which contained the color green.
1. Mr. O’Mahony sat in seat 1 and his wife in seat 6. Of the remaining four couples, no wife sat on the same side of the table as her husband. All in all, Stefano thought them a rather strange group of people as their attire left a lot to the imagination!
2. The person who wore the green and red plaid flannel slacks - who is of the same gender as the person who wore sported the green handkerchief with little white bunnies - sat directly across from Ryan.
3. The only member of the party that Stefano knew personally was his cousin, Colleen, who did not sit immediately next to Michael at the table. In fact, he hadn’t yet met her new husband, so kept winking at her to see which of the gentlemen at the table might appear to be jealous!
4. Mr. O’Reilly sat to the immediate right of the person in the faded green velvet jacket. Each of these two people sat next to at least one woman, one of whom giggled throughout the entire meal.
5. Todd sat next to Ginger, and directly across from the person who wore the green and white striped socks (with a pair of ridiculous looking purple clogs!).
6. John sat next to the person who wore the shirt which was decorated with little green smiling frogs, who sat directly across from the person wearing a blinding lime-green vest which was at least two sizes too large for that individual.
7. Either Mr. O’Connell or Mr. O’Sullivan wore the green shoe laces (which Stefano thought a riot since he also wore pink tennis shoes!), while the other wore the green velvet jacket. Mrs. O’Connell sat directly across from Sarah.
8. Mr. O’Reilly (who sat on the north side of the table) is either the individual who wore the green leather cowboy belt (complete with a really huge buckle!) or Esther’s husband, but not both. One of the gentlemen sat immediately between Mrs. O’Reilly and Mrs. O’Sullivan.
9. Kevin sat immediately between Mr. O’Neal and the person whose pony tail was caught up in a gaudy green hair ribbon. Mrs. O’Neal, Esther, and the person who wore an orange tie with little green dinosaurs on it all sat on the same side of the table.
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