Brain Teasers
Brain Teasers Trivia Mentalrobics Games Community
Personal Links
Submit a Teaser
Your Favorites
Your Watchlist
Browse Teasers
All

Cryptography
Group
Language
Letter-Equations
Logic
Logic-Grid
Math
Mystery
Optical-Illusions
Other
Probability
Rebus
Riddle
Science
Series
Situation
Trick
Trivia

Random
Daily Teasers
Search Teasers

Advanced Search
Add to Google Add to del.icio.us

More ways to get Braingle...

Dieters' Club

Logic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.

 

Puzzle ID:#39637
Fun:*** (2.78)
Difficulty:*** (2.48)
Category:Logic-Grid
Submitted By:pokpic*us******

 



A new diet club was started in Phattsburg, Fatslyvania. The first five members to join the club are named Biggs, Gross, House, Piles, and Tubbs. Two of them are men named Barney and Whalen, while three of them are ladies named Bertha, Fanny, Fatima. Each started out at a different weight: 300 lbs., 275 lbs., 250 lbs., 225 lbs., and 200 lbs. After 6 months each dieter had lost a different amount of weight: 125 lbs., 100 lbs., 75 lbs., 50 lbs., and 25 lbs. From the information given below, determine each person's first and last name, the weight they started at and how much weight they each lost.

Last Names: Biggs, Gross, House, Piles, and Tubbs

First Names: Barney, Bertha, Fanny, Fatima, and Whalen.

Starting Weights: 300 lbs., 275 lbs., 250 lbs., 225 lbs., and 200 lbs.

Weight Lost: 125 lbs., 100 lbs., 75 lbs., 50 lbs., 25 lbs.


1. At the beginning of the diet Whalen weighed less than than Mr. Piles and the woman who lost the most weight in the whole group, but more than Ms. House and the woman who lost the least amount of weight in the whole group.

2. Barney did not lose exactly 75 lbs. and he was not the same weight as Ms. Gross at the end of the diet.

3. Mr. Tubbs at the beginning of the diet, weighed more than Ms. Biggs and less than Fanny.

4. Fatima started out lighter but lost twice as much weight as Ms. Biggs.

Open Grid Solver



What Next?

See another brain teaser just like this one...

Or, just get a random brain teaser

If you become a registered user you can vote on this brain teaser, keep track of
which ones you have seen, and even make your own.

 



Comments

Yankeejimg*
Dec 16, 2007

Excellent teaser. Few and complicated clues. Thanks.
jppbl*us*
Dec 16, 2007

Wow! That was tough, but I finally got it. Great teaser!
dreamlvr1432Aus*
Dec 17, 2007

Most excellent! Just a few clues, but they really make you work for the answers. Was having a problem pinning down Barney and Ms Gross until I remembered clue #2.
thompson1tus*
Dec 19, 2007

Well-Crafted and much more difficult than it first appears! Great teaser!
MorbidLiesAus*
Dec 26, 2007

tough!
i didn't get it at all
nerdyiscool*us*
Jan 01, 2008

Had to give up after a bit. Extra points for the great "fatty" names!
locomomAus*
Jul 01, 2008

Excellent teaser! I had to really work at the clues to get it. Thanks a bunch!
fuzzy1**
Nov 03, 2009

I found the "fatty" names a bit offensive, but this one made me think; even though it looks easy at first. Great Job!



Back to Top
   



Online Now: 51 users and 330 guests

Copyright © 1999-2009 | Updates | FAQ | RSS | Widgets | Links | Green | Subscribe | Contact | Privacy | Conditions | Advertise

Google
 
Web Braingle.com
Sign In A Create a free account