The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1 (published 1976)
Puzzle: People and Cabins and Thinkers' Corner (Logic puzzles)
Puzzle:
People and Cabins
This one isn't easy. It could swallow up a day of your time, even a week. But
it will take more than an hour.
The following 15 facts are all you need to solve it:
1. There are five hunting cabins on a lake. Each cabin is a different color, and
is inhabited by a man of a different nationality, each drinking a different kind
of liquor, firing a different brand of shotgun shell, and shooting a different
duck.
2. The Englishman lives in the red cabin.
3. The Pole shoots only bluebills.
4. Bourbon is drunk in the green cabin.
5. The Finn drinks beer.
6. The green cabin is immediately to the right(your right) of the brown cabin.
7. The hunter who uses Winchester shells shoots mallards.
8. Remington shells are shot in the yellow cabin.
9. Brandy is drunk in the middle cabin.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first cabin on the left.
11. The man who buys Federal shells lives in the first cabin next to the cabin
of the man who shoots red heads.
12. Remington shells are used in the cabin next to the cabin where the
canvasbacks are shot.
13. The hunter who fires Western shells drinks gin.
14. The Irishman loads up with Peters shells.
15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue cabin.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to figure out who drinks the
Scotch and who shoots the teal.
Good luck.
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Thinkers' Corner
by Layman E. Allen � 1975
WORD PUZZLES
How many of the problems (a) through (f) below can you solve by forming a
network of words that have exactly as many letters as the number listed as the
GOAL? (Suppose that each symbol below is imprinted on a disc.)
To qualify as a network
(1) all sequences of discs across and down must be words,
(2) the words must have two letters and not be proper names,
(3) all of the discs in the REQUIRED column must be used,
(4) as many of the discs in PERMITTED as you wish may be used,
(5) at most one of the discs in RESOURCES may be used.
Example: The number of letters in the words of the network
C A T is 5: CAT TO
O 3 + 2 = 5.
The number in the network F A T is 3.
Problem GOAL REQUIRED PERMITTED RESOURCES
a) 5 R F L M P C G J
N U Y
b) 7 A A D T I B E S
V X Z
c) 10 Q T N I U M R C G K
O T W
d) 10 E F R J O O O B F H
L S V
e) 12 E R W A K M S D G K
O T Y
f) 19 A E R R T A C L N O S B F M
R U W
Some Suggested Answers (frequently there are others):
(a) M
FRY
(b) I A
SAT
(c) QUIT
ON
(d) SO
FOR
E
(e) MOW
ARE
(f) A
ACORN
SURE
T
If you enjoy this kind of puzzle, you may like playing ON-WORDS: The game of
Word Structures. Free information about this and other instructional games is
available upon request from THE FOUNDATION FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF HUMAN
INTELLIGENCE, 1900-W Packard Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
