Monkey Business
Logic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
The Catterville Zoo has a very unique main attraction: Performing Monkeys! Ellie, Gill, Sasha and Tommy have all been taught by their handler (who are all, strangely, also called Ellie, Gill, Sasha and Tommy) to perform a trick (handstand, trapeze tricks, juggling or breakdancing) to receive their favourite snack (honey, bananas, melon and mango). Discover each monkey's handler, the trick it can do, and its favourite snack.
1.) No monkey has the same name as their handler.
2.) Ellie the handler didn't teach any monkey to do a handstand.
3.) The monkey that likes mangoes has the same name as the handler who taught a monkey to juggle.
4.) A handler taught either Ellie or Sasha to do trapeze tricks.
5.) The monkey that likes bananas, whose handler isn't Tommy, has the same name as Tommy the Monkey's handler.
6.) Gill likes melons and his handler is a woman.
7.) Gill the handler taught a monkey to breakdance.
HintEllie and Sasha are girls; Gill and Tommy are boys.
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Answer
Monkey, Handler, Trick, Food
Ellie, Tommy, Trapeze, Mangos
Gill, Ellie, Juggling, Melon
Sasha, Gill, Breakdancing, Bananas
Tommy, Sasha, Handstand, Honey
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Comments
Mom2Ozzy   
May 07, 2011
| Whew! That was a hard one! I love when you are REQUIRED to apply logic to solve the puzzle, instead of the grid just solving its self. |
mrsfessler 
May 21, 2011
| Very good puzzle! Really have to think to solve it! I enjoyed it immensely! |
dreamlvr1432   
Jun 13, 2011
| Great puzzle. Actually had to try different options and use my brain to solve it.  |
trewq  
Jun 21, 2011
| Awesome! I had to guess and check a little--used those number boxes for the first time--but that was a good test of logic too. I'm sure there was a way to do it without guess and check but after a certain point I couldn't get any more certainties from the clues. Wonderful job |
mamachew
Jul 04, 2011
| The only way I could solve this was to make an assumption in clue #4. I eliminated Ellie and Sasha as handlers who taught the trapeze trick, making Tommy the only possibility. That's a pretty big assumption, though, to eliminate them both, just because ONE of the monkeys with the same name was taught the trapeze trick. Other than that, I thought it was a good, challenging puzzle. |
lesliep72875   
Sep 26, 2011
| Finally did it, with a lot of thinking & re-reading of many clues. Nice job  |
braindeadmommia  
Oct 08, 2011
| Finally!!!! Yay! Good challenge. |
PYTHON  
Dec 06, 2011
| A really good puzzle that required a bit of thought and a couple of grid restarts! |
roseyb75   
Dec 26, 2011
| Really Tough!  |
Obilio  
Nov 09, 2012
| Toughest puzzle I've run into yet! I restarted the grid about 7 times. This was a VERY challenging puzzle, Thanks for writing it, I bet you would whoop my butt in a chess match every time.  |
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