HONORS GEOMETRY YOUR NAME ______________________________

MRS. PIRONE
LOGIC PUZZLES GROUP NAMES ______________________________

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Directions: Solve each puzzle in your groups. Write your final answer in a
few complete sentences below each puzzle. #1-3 are classwork. I will collect
ONE of each puzzle from a random group member, so all group members are
responsible for completing the work. Puzzle #4 is extra credit (+2 points),
and can be completed over the weekend. I will collect puzzle #4 on Monday.

PUZZLE #1:
The Archimedean Club of Higher Mathematics is planning its annual banquet. The club gives
awards to members of 5, 10, and 15 years. The club’s officers consist of a president, a vice
president, and a secretary. The three officers, Mrs. Martinez, Mr. Washington, and Ms. Chung,
are due to receive awards. Use the following clues to identify the officers and how long each has
been a member. The following chart may be helpful.

1. Ms. Chung has been a member for ten years.

2. The president has been a member for fewer years than Ms. Chung.
3. Mrs. Martinez has been a member for more years than the secretary.

5 years 10 years 15 years Pres. V. Pres Sec.

Martinez

Washington

Chung
PUZZLE #2:

Two men named Garth and Orville and two women named Monica and Trixie recently read
Euell B. Skinnier’s bestseller, The N-Diet, and decided to try it. The book asserts that you can
eat anything in any amount and still lose weight, as long as you consume one of the four N-
foods daily (celery, horseradish, jicama, and pickles) that Skinnier claims actually make you lose
weight. Each of the dieters (whose last names are Bates, Nedbelek, Voss, and Ybarra) chose a
different N-food, and after three months they met to compare results. As it happened, each had
gained a different number of pounds (5, 8, 10, and 16). Can you find each dieter’s full name, N-
food, and weight gain?

1. Orville (who can’t abide celery) gained twice as much as the other dieter who chose
horseradish.
2. The woman who chose jicama gained eight pounds.
3. Nedbelock developed indigestion from eating pickles every day for three months.
4. Monica (who isn’t Ybarra) gained twice as much weight as Bates did.

You can use the full chart or any portion of it.

Horseradish

10 pounds

16 pounds
Nedbelek

5 pounds

8 pounds
Jicama

Pickles
Ybarra

Celery
Bates

Voss

Garth
Monica
Orville
Trixie
5 pounds
8 pounds
10 pounds
16 pounds
Celery
Horseradish
Jicama
Pickles
PUZZLE #4: This puzzle is EXTRA CREDIT!

Six girls, Amanda, Dawn, Julie, Mallory, Tess and Whitney, had been friends forever, and now
all they could talk about was this coming Friday night, the evening of their first formal dance.
Each had made or bought a new gown of a different color (blue, green, pink, red, silver, or
violet) for the occasion, and each had finagled her boyfriend into agreeing to a sextuple date at
a restaurant beforehand. Their spirits were dimmed only by their parents’ very different ideas
about an appropriate curfew for girls their age (10:30 pm, 11:00 pm, 11:30 pm, midnight, 12:30
am, and 1:00 am), so that each would have to leave the dance at a different time. Last names of
the girls are Bianco, Foley, Koch, Levi, Roche, and Shephard. Can you find each girl’s curfew,
full name, and gown color?

1. Amanda could stay later than the Roche girl.

2. The girl in green’s curfew was later than the Koch girl’s, but earlier than the Levi girl’s.
3. Julie’s curfew was a half-hour later than the girl in red’s, but at least an hour earlier than
the Shephard girl’s.
4. The Foley girl could stay out later than the girl in blue, but not as late as Tess.
5. The Koch and Levi girls are, in some order, Whitney and the girl in pink.
6. The girl in violet’s curfew was at least an hour later than Tess’s, but not as late as
Dawn’s.

You can use the full chart or any portion of it.

10:30pm

11:00pm

11:30pm

12:30am
midnight

Shepard
1:00am

Bianco

Roche
green

Foley
silver

violet

Koch
blue

pink

Levi
red

Amanda
Dawn
Julie
Mallory
Tess
Whitney
Bianco
Foley
Koch
Levi
Roche
Shepard
10:30pm
11:00pm
11:30pm
midnight
12:30am
1:00am
PUZZLE #3:
There are 5 houses in a row in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5
owners drink a certain type of beverage, play a certain sport and keep a certain pet. No two people drink the same
drink, play the same sport or have the same pet.

Somebody owns a fish. The questions is….who?

 The Brit lives in the red house.

 The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
 The Dane drinks tea.
 The green house is directly left of the white house.
 The green homeowner drinks coffee.
 The person who plays polo rears birds.
 The owner of the yellow house plays hockey.
 The man living in the center house drinks milk.
 The Norwegian lives in the first house.
 The man who plays baseball lives next to the man who keeps cats.
 The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who plays hockey.
 The owner who plays billiards drinks orange juice.
 The German plays soccer.
 The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
 The man who plays baseball has a neighbor who drinks water.

Fill out this chart completely for full credit.

Colors

Nationalities

Drinks

Sports

Pets