During the last week of October, Mr. Boddy invited several friends over to celebrate Halloween. One of Mr. Boddy’s recent acquisitions was a carousel with eight horses, each horse a different color. Each of the eight guests showed up in costume, and during the course of the day, they enjoyed a ride on the carousel (horses are lettered A through H in the illustration).
Each guest’s surname is associated with the color of one of the eight horses, although no person rode one of the horses whose color was associated with his or her surname: Col. Mustard - yellow, Dr. Gray - gray, Lady Melon - orange, Mr. Green - green, Miss Lavender - lavender, Miss Scarlet - red, Mrs. Peacock - blue, and Sir Sable - brown.
Can you determine, from the clues, the color of the horse in each position, the guest who rode each horse, and the costume worn by each guest? Note: the carousel moves in a clockwise position, as seen in the diagram.
1. Two of the male guests wore the costumes of a sheik and Sherlock Holmes, and two of the women guests wore the costumes of a witch and Cleopatra.
2. The red horse was directly in front of the horse Miss Scarlet rode. This was the only instance in which a person rode a horse next to a horse whose color was associated with his or her name.
3. The gray horse was directly across the carousel from the blue horse, and the horse ridden by the man in the Dracula costume was directly across the carousel from the horse ridden by the man who wore the clown costume.
4. Four of the guests were Dr. Gray (who rode a horse directly across from the red horse), Lady Melon (who rode the horse directly across from the green horse), Mr. Green (who rode the horse directly across from the horse ridden by the guest dressed as a ghost), and Mrs. Peacock (who rode the horse directly across from the horse ridden by the guest dressed as a witch).
5. Sir Sable (who was not dressed as Sherlock Holmes) rode the horse directly across the carousel from the lavender horse. Col. Mustard rode the horse directly across the carousel from the orange horse.
6. The woman who came dressed as a leprechaun rode the horse in position H. The brown horse was in position D. Miss Lavender rode the horse in position C. The person dressed as Dracula was not the guest who rode the horse in position E.
7. Miss Lavender rode the horse which was immediately between the green horse and the horse ridden by guest dressed as a witch (who didn’t ride a horse immediately next to the horse ridden by guest dressed as Dracula).
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Everett Kaser’s wife, Sharon, had been reminding him that winter was right around the corner and there were some Fall chores that still needed to be done. Finally, last week Everett got busy and tackled a different job on each of six days (Monday through Saturday). While working away, a different member of the family stopped by to chat for a while and Everett got so engrossed in what they were talking about, he really wasn’t watching what he was doing and had a few minor incidents, each of which caused a slight, but thankfully temporary, injury.
From the clues, determine the day of the week Everett tackled each chore (one day he put up some new storm windows), the minor incident which occurred on each day, and the relative who stopped by to visit each day (one was his brother, John).
Chores: Cleaned fish pond, cleaned garage, put up new storm windows, raked yard, repaired deck railing, replaced guttering. Incidents: Bird pooped on head, booped head on tree limb, dropped bucket fertilizer on his foot, fell in pond, fell off bottom rung of ladder, and hit thumb with hammer.
1. Everett’s three male visitors were his brother Jerry, the man who was there when Everett fell in the pond, and the man who visited the day immediately after he had replaced some guttering on the house.
2. On three consecutive days, Everett had a bird poop on his head, had a visit from his sister-in-law Sue, and had a visit from his brother Norman.
3. Donna stopped by the day immediately after Everett cleaned the fish pond and the day immediately before Everett slipped off the bottom rung of the ladder and twisted his ankle.
4. John’s wife, Lori, visited on a day later in the week than the day Everett raked the yard (which was the day he booped his head on a tree limb!).
5. The order of Everett’s visitors that week alternated by gender. The one who visited Everett on the day he cleaned out his garage was either his sister or one of his sister-in-laws.
6. It wasn’t on Saturday (which wasn’t the day after he repaired some railing on his deck) that Everett hit his thumb with a hammer, which happened when his visitor that day walked up behind him and shouted “Boo!”
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Recently, Stefano celebrated the tenth anniversary of his promotion to maìtre d’ at Gordinno’s Restaurant and was given the week off. On each of five days of that week, Monday through Friday, Stefano was invited over to supper at a different relatives home where, in honor of the occasion, he enjoyed one of his favorite treats - berries! Stefano loves berries of all types, and at each home he was served a food treat containing a different type of berry (one treat had blackberry). Stefano showed up at the home of each relative with a different special gift - a book, chocolates, flowers, perfume, or potted plant.
From the clues, can you determine the day of the week he visited each relative - aunt, grandmother, mother, niece, or sister, the gift he presented each one, and the treat Stefano enjoyed at each home?
1. The day Stefano presented his hostess with a lovely potted plant was exactly two days before he was invited to his Mother’s home, which was the day before he enjoyed a treat made with raspberries.
2. It wasn’t Stefano’s aunt who received the book of poetry.
3. Stefano had pancakes the day before he visited the relative to whom he gave a gift of flowers, which was the day before he visited his sister.
4. Neither muffins nor pie were the special treat served the day that Stefano presented his hostess with a potted plant.
5. Neither cranberries nor blueberries were the main ingredient in either the pie nor the muffins which Stefano enjoyed. Stefano did not have cranberry cobbler at any home that week.
6. On three consecutive days, Stefano ate some delicious cobbler, visited the home of his niece, and enjoyed a treat made with blueberries (which wasn’t at the home where he presented his hostess with a box of chocolates).
7. The day he was invited to his grandmother’s home wasn’t the day he enjoyed a wonderful berry pie. It was not at his grandmother’s home that he had pancakes, nor was it at his sister’s home that he had pie.
8. The five days that Stefan had off that week were Thursday, the day he was invited to his grandmothers, the day he enjoyed a treat made with strawberries, the day he enjoyed pudding made with one of his favorite berries, and the day he presented his hostess with a box of chocolates.
| WEEK DAY | RELATIVE | GIFT GIVEN | TYPE OF BERRY | TYPE OF FOOD |
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