The six Clue suspects have been invited to dine with Mr. Boddy on Thanksgiving Day. Knowing Mr. Boddy, each individual knows that he always had quite a layout on Holidays - more food that one can imagine. Therefore, that morning Col. Mustard and each of the other suspects decided to have a light breakfast of just cereal (one person had All Bran) and juice (one person had grapefruit juice). Afterwards, each worked on a different type of puzzle (one of which was a word math puzzle) until it was time to get dressed to leave for the Boddy Mansion. From the clues, can you determine what type of cereal and juice each had for breakfast, and what type of puzzle each worked?
1. Mr. Green, who didn’t have the Rice Chex, had orange juice with his breakfast.
2. Pineapple juice was on the breakfast menu of the person who worked on a fill-in puzzle; this was not Prof. Plum, who isn’t the person who worked a cryptogram.
3. One individual had Grape Nuts and grape juice for breakfast, while another individual (who wasn’t Mrs. White) had Corn Flakes, apple juice, and later worked a crossword puzzle.
4. The person who had Shredded Wheat for breakfast (who was neither Mr. Green nor Mrs. White) worked on a syllacrostic.
5. Miss Scarlet (who didn’t have Total cereal along with some prune juice) worked on a word search to pass the time.
6. Neither Mrs. Peacock (who hates pineapple of any type) nor Prof. Plum worked on a crossword puzzle.
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Not long ago Everett Kaser and his family had a chance to walk part of the A.T. (well, actually only 20 miles of it), but they wanted to be prepared for anything, so besides water, food and extra clothing in a knapsack that each carried, each person was assigned one item to be sure and bring along - just in case! Also, each person brought his or her own camera and each took a different number of pictures along the way (from 10 to 18). The family members include Everett (naturally), his wife Sharon, son Shane, daughter Megan, Everett’s sister Donna, Donna’s husband Jerry, Donna and Jerry’s son, Scott, Sharon’s sister Shirley, and Shirley’s son, Eric.
The nine family members looked a colorful bunch as they set out walking, single file, in different colored shirts - blue, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, and yellow. From the clues, determine the order which each member started out walking the trail, the color of shirt each wore, the important item each brought along, and the number of snapshots each person took while on the outing.
1. The four immediate members of Everett’s family are Megan, the individual who took 15 snapshots, the individual who was next to last in line as they began their hike, and the individual who wore the blue shirt.
2. Jerry, who brought along a compass, took a total of 11 pictures. Scott took a total of 13 pictures.
3. Sharon took one more snapshot than Shane, who took one more snapshot than the person who brought along a pocket knife, who took one more snapshot than Everett, who took one more snapshot than the person who wore the lavender shirt (who was number seven in the group when they started out).
4. The person who took 12 pictures wasn’t the male member of the family who wore they yellow shirt. Neither Shirley (who started out immediately behind the person who brought the toilet paper) nor Sharon is the person who brought along a flashlight.
5. Shane was first in line when they started out, while the person who carried the pocket knife was fourth. The sixth person in line was a male. The fifth person in line wasn’t the female in the white shirt (who wasn’t Sharon).
6. As the group set out, five family members walking in single file, consecutively from first to last, were Eric (who carried the first aid kit), the female in the pink shirt (who wasn’t Megan), Scott, the person in the tan shirt who carried the bug spray, and the person who had brought along a battery operated radio.
7. The third person in line, who wore a green shirt, took more photographs than his mother, who brought along some zip lock bags. The person in the orange shirt, who brought matches, took more pictures than the second person in line, but fewer than the person in the red shirt.
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