Stephen was looking at a photo. Someone asked him, "Whose picture are you looking at?

" He replied: "I don't have any brother or sister, but this man's father is my father's son." So, whose picture was Stephen looking at? Answer:The man in the photo is Stephen's son. There was a robbery in which a lot of goods were stolen. The robber(s) left in a truck. It is known that : (1) Nobody else could have been involved other than A, B and C. (2) C never commits a crime without A's participation. (3) B does not know how to drive. So, is A innocent or guilty? Answer: A is guilty. Suppose there is this little town with a finite numer of people: (1) No two inhabitants have exactly the same number of hairs. (2) No inhabitant has exactly 409 hairs. (3) There are more inhabitants than there are hairs on the head of any inhabitant. So, what is the largest possible number of inhabitants in that little town? Answer:409

Snacking
by Randall L. Whipkey When the Keebler family did their weekly shopping at Giant Grocery yesterday, Mrs. Keebler allowed each of the five children, including Lara, to pick a salty snack and a sweet snack for the coming week. No two Keebler children picked the same product. Given the shopping list that follows, you should be able to solve for the salty snack (one child chose Fritos Corn Chips) and sweet treat each child chose. 1. Ian helped his younger brother get his choice of Oreo Cookies from the top shelf. 2. The two Keebler girls decided they would share their snacks during the week and decided on Rold Gold Pretzel Rods and one of the two chip products chosen as their salty snacks. 3. The child who chose the Pizza Combos filled pretzels isn't the one who selected the Pepperidge Farm Tahoe Cookies. 4. Jeremy isn't the Keebler child who picked the Hostess Ho Ho cakes. 5. Neither the child who decided on the Oreos nor the one who chose the Little Debbie's Christmas Tree Cakes picked the Cheez-It Crackers to go with it. 6. The two girls selected Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies and one of the two cake products chosen as their sweet treats. 7. The child who chose the Wavy Lay's Potato Chips, who isn't Kim, didn't pair it with the Little Debbie's cakes. 8. Neither Jeremy nor Micah chose the Tahoe Cookies. 9. Ian's choice of salty snack was neither the Cheez-Its nor the Wavy Lay's chips.

Logic Problem Solution:

Snacking
By clue 1, Ian helped his younger brother get Oreos off the shelf, so two of the three boys are Ian and the boy who chose Oreo Cookies as a sweet treat. By clue 6, the two Keebler girls chose Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies and one of the two cake products as their sweet snacks. Since neither Jeremy nor Micah picked the Pepperidge Farm Tahoe Cookies (8), Ian chose the Tahoes as his sweet. By clue 2, one of the girls decided on the Rold Gold Pretzel Rods as her salty snack. By clue 3, Ian didn't pick the Pizza Combos; and by clue 9, Ian didn't pick the Cheez-It Crackers or the Wavy Lay's Potato Chips. Ian's salty snack is the Fritos Corn Chips. By clue 2, the other of the two girls opted for the Wavy Lay's Potato Chips. Then the brother who got the Oreos also got the Pizza Combos (5); the third brother picked the Cheez-Its as his salty snack. He therefore got the Hostess Ho Hos as a sweet (5), and is Micah (4). Jeremy chose the Pizza Combos and Oreos. One of the sisters went for the Little's Debbie's Christmas Tree Cakes, which she combined with the Rold Gold Pretzel Rods (7). The girl who chose the Wavy Lay's Potato Chips and Chips Ahoy cookies isn't Kim (7) and is Lara. Kim picked Rold Gold Pretzel Rods and Little Debbie's cakes. In conclusion, the Keebler children selected snacks as follows:

Ian chose Fritos Corn Chips and Pepperidge Farm Tahoe Cookies Jeremy chose Pizza Combos and Oreo Cookies Micah chose Cheez-It Crackers and Hostess Ho Ho Cakes Kim chose Rold Gold Pretzel Rods and Little Debbie's Christmas Tree Cakes Lara chose Wavy Lay's Potato Chips and Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Cookies

The Good Sport

by Randall L. Whipkey When Buzz of Buzz's Exxon gathered his 2001 records for his CPA, he found that he had made six donations, each for a different amount of money and totaling $1500, to six local youth sports teams, including a softball team. Given the data below, can you find how much in sports deductions Buzz has for 2001: the contribution to each team and the sport the team plays? 1. Buzz donated twice as much to the basketball team as he did to the Knights. 2. The contribution to the Comets was less than that to the football team. 3. For his donation to the soccer team, which was $50 more than he gave the Rovers, the soccer team advertised Buzz's Exxon on the back of jersey # 1. 4. The Lions got $150 more from the service station operator than the baseball team did. 5. The smallest donation of the six was for $50. 6. The Hawks received twice as much money from Buzz as the soccer team. 7. Before actually seeing the receipts again, Buzz thought that his largest donation had been $600 and that he had given the hockey team $250; he found that the largest contribution was for less than $600 and that the hockey donation was for less than $250. 8. Buzz gave the Knights $50 more than he gave the Devils. 9. The largest donation wasn't the one to the youth basketball team.

From the introduction, no two donations Buzz made to sports teams were for the same amount of money, and the six donations totaled $1500. By clue 1, Buzz gave the basketball team twice as much as the Knights, to whom he gave $50 more than to the Devils (clue 8); and by clue 6, Buzz gave the Hawks twice as much as the soccer team, to which he donated $50 more than to the Rovers (3). Between the two clues, then, either all six teams are named or there is some commonality. If all six donations are listed, then either the Devils (1, 8) or the Rovers (6, 3) would have gotten the least, $50 (5). If the Devils had received the $50, by clues 8 and 1, the Knights would have received $100 and the basketball team $200. Then the three teams in clues 3 and 6 would have received $1500-$350, or $1150. Adding the amounts in the two clues with the Rovers getting X, the soccer club would have gotten X+$50 and the Hawks 2X+$100, a total of 4X+$150. So, solving, 4X+$150 = $1150, or X would equal $250. But the Hawks then would have received $600 from Buzz, contradicting clue 7. If the Rovers had received the $50 from Buzz, then the Devils would have had to get more than $50 and the basketball team would have received the largest donation--no (9). Therefore, there must be some overlap between the two sets of teams in clues 1, 8 and 6, 3. The Hawks aren't the basketball team and the Knights aren't the soccer team, since then the Devils and Rovers would have received the same sum, contrary to the introduction. If the Devils were the soccer team, then combining the four clues, given that the basketball team didn't get the biggest amount (9) and that the Rovers therefore got the least, $50, the Devils would have received $100, the Knights $150, the Hawks $200, and the basketball team $300, a total of $800. But the sixth team would have received $700, contradicting clue 7. So, the Rovers must be the basketball team. If the Devils weren't the $50 donees, then the five teams amomng the four clues would have received $1450 as follows: the Devils X, the Knights X+$50, the basketball Rovers 2X+$100, the soccer team 2X+$150, and the Hawks 4X+$300. Solving, 10X+$600 = $1450, or X = $85. But the Hawks then would have gotten $640--no (7). So, combining the clues, Buzz gave the Devils $50, the Knights $100, the basketball Rovers $200, the soccer squad $250, and the Hawks $500, a total of $1100, with the sixth team then getting $400. By clue 4, the soccer team is the Lions, and the Knights play baseball. By elimination, the sixth team that got $400 is the Comets. By clue 7, the Devils play hockey. The Hawks play football and the Comets softball (2). In sum, Buzz's deductible sports contributions in 2001 were as follows:

$500 to the Hawks football team $400 to the Comets softball team $250 to the Lions soccer team $200 to the Rovers basketball team $100 to the Knights baseball team $50 to the Devils hockey team

Sharing the Music

by Randall L. Whipkey Each of six teen friends are sharing the music by lending a CD of his or her favorite group to one of the other five. From the clues below, you should be able to determine which CD each of the six owns and who is borrowing and currently enjoying it.

1. The six music sharers are Ben, the girl who owns the Cake CD, the boy who is borrowing the 3 Doors Down CD, Wendy, the teenager who owns the CD by No Doubt, and the one who is currently listening to another's Train CD. 2. Two of the boys are borrowing music owned by two of the girls; the boy who is listening to another boy's favorite has his Matchbox Twenty CD. 3. Wendy, who isn't the teen who owns the 3 Doors Down CD, isn't the person who is borrowing the Cake music. 4. Trisha is borrowing neither the Barenaked Ladies nor the No Doubt CD. 5. James is borrowing neither the Cake nor the Matchbox Twenty CD. 6. Ben isn't the friend who is listening to Cindy's favorite group, and Cindy isn't the one listening to Kevin's loaned CD. 7. The teen who is borrowing the No Doubt CD doesn't own the Barenaked Ladies music.

Sharing the Music

The six teenagers are listed in clue 1 as follows: Ben, the girl who owns the Cake CD, the boy who is borrowing the 3 Doors Down CD, Wendy, the one who owns the No Doubt CD, and the teen who is borrowing the CD by Train. So, two of the boys are Ben and the one borrowing 3 Doors Down; and two of the girls are Wendy and the one who owns Cake. If the one in clue 1 who is borrowing Train were the third boy and the one who owns No Doubt then the third girl, by clue 2, Ben would have borrowed the Matchbox Twenty CD. Also by clue 2, since only Ben would have borrowed a CD from a girl, the boy who borrowed Train would have gotten it from Wendy. However, the 3 Doors Down CD that one boy is borrowing then would have to belong to another boy, a conflict with clue 2. Therefore, in clue 1, the one who owns the No Doubt CD is the third boy; and the teen who is borrowing the Train CD is the third girl. Since only the Matchbox Twenty CD is both owned and borrowed by a boy (clue 2), the 3 Doors Down CD must belong to a girl--by clue 3, the girl who is borrowing Train. Since Wendy isn't borrowing the Cake recording (3), one of the boys is, with another boy borrowing the Matchbox Twenty set (2). So, Wendy and the girl who owns the Cake music are borrowing the Barenaked Ladies and No Doubt CDs in some order. The latter girl then cannot be Trisha (4) and must be Cindy. Trisha owns the 3 Doors Down CD. Since James isn't borrowing the Cake or Matchbox Twenty CD (5), he must be the boy borrowing the 3 Doors Down album. Kevin owns No Doubt. Then Cindy isn't borrowing No Doubt (6) and must be borrowing Barenaked Ladies; Wendy is borrowing No Doubt. Wendy then must own the Train music (7). Ben did not borrow Cindy's Cake CD (6), so he is enjoying Matchbox Twenty, which belongs to James. Kevin is listening to Cake, and Ben owns the Barenaked Ladies CD. In conclusion, the CD each teen owns and the one he or she is borrowing are as follows:

Cindy, Cake, Barenaked Ladies Trisha, 3 Doors Down, Train Wendy, Train, No Doubt Ben, Barenaked Ladies, Matchbox Twenty James, Matchbox Twenty, 3 Doors Down Kevin, No Doubt, Cake

Downhill Racers
by Randall L. Whipkey Maier and four other downhill racers have won the first five events in the Downhill Challenge 2002, with each of the five scoring a victory on a different ski resort's course. Can you slalom through the information below to find who won each event and where the race was held? 1. Tony's Downhill Challenge win didn't come at Heartbreak Hill. 2. Jamie won the event held immediately before the race at Deep Valley Resort. 3. Chris, whose win wasn't on the Old Man Mountain slope, and Street both have contracts for ski wear with Big Foot Clothing. 4. In the race immediately after the one at Heartbreak Hill Resort, Alex won his first-ever Downhill Challenge event. 5. Cochran's victory wasn't at the Reindeer Run meet. 6. Tony's downhill win was followed immediately by Street's. 7. Killy, who isn't Jamie, finished second in the Deep Valley race. 8. The event at Old Man Mountain was held immediately after the one where Kevin won by setting a new hill speed record. 9. Tony's first-place finish wasn't in the 3rd Downhill Challenge race. 10. Tomba's victory came immediately after that of the winner at Lonesome Pine. 11. Killy's win immediately preceded Chris's in the race series.