Customs Woes
Logic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
7 hours into her flight from Berlin to Denver, Jane is asked to fill out her customs forms. She rifles through her purse, looking for her receipts of the five souvenirs she purchased. Unfortunately, she can't find her list anywhere! She needs to claim her gifts to United States customs upon arrival. Help her sort out what she bought, how much it cost, what city she was in when she bought it, what attraction she was visiting, and how she got there before she lands!
Item: Postcard, Book, Audio Tape, Model, Calendar
Cost: 1, 5, 8, 10, 16 Euros
City: Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt, Rothenburg
Attraction: Castle, Play, Zoo, Museum, Cathedral
Transportation: U-bahn (U-bahn is like the subway, on rails), Bergbahn (German for Mountain Train), Car (rented, of course!), Taxi, Bicycle
1. No item was purchased at an attraction or city with the same first letter as that item.
2. Neither the Zoo nor the castle were accessible by rail. Rothenburg is a small, walled city; cars and taxis are of no use there.
3. Stuttgart is known for its expensive taste. Therefore, the item purchased there was not less than 10 euros.
4. The items are as follows: The book, the item purchased at a castle, the item bought in Rothenburg, the item that cost the most, and the item purchased after a scenic train ride.
5. The "Bergbahn", or mountain train, was not required to get to the cathedral.
6. A car was rented on the trip that resulted in a souvenir for her favorite aunt that cost twice as much as the model she bought for her brother.
7. A camera was not allowed in either attraction that involved living things, so she bought a postcard to remember one of them and a calendar to remember the other.
8. The total cost of the souvenirs is divisible by the costs of each of these four different items: the one from Frankfurt, the gift bought in the cathedral, the one costing 1 Euro, and the one purchased after a taxi ride.
9. The gift from the cathedral cost half as much as the gift purchased after the taxi ride, which was not through Stuttgart.
HintIf it says something is not useful or not needed, it means that is not the transportation used.
Places, attractions and transportation solutions are fictional.
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Answer
Postcard-16 euros-Car-Zoo-Stuttgart
Book-10 Euros-Taxi-Museum-Munich
Audio Tape-5 Euros-U-Bahn-Cathedral-Rothenburg
Model-8 Euros-Bicycle-Castle-Frankfurt
Calendar-1 Euro-Bergbahn-Play-Berlin
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Comments
Yankeejimg 
Dec 16, 2007
| Two excellent puzzles on the same day. Well designed,  |
Winner4600 
Dec 16, 2007
| Great, great teaser, and I'm going to put it in my faves. But...
Can someone explain the very last part for me? I have:
Berlin - 1 Euro, Bergbahn
Stuttgart - 16 Euro, Car
and
Postcard - Zoo
Calendar - Play
How do I match up these two sets? I can't find any more clues... thanks! |
Winner4600 
Dec 16, 2007
| Or wait... does the train count as "rails", too?  |
dreamlvr1432   
Dec 16, 2007
| Yes, winner, the train counts as rails too. Great teaser, Mocha!  |
Winner4600 
Dec 16, 2007
| Haha, ok... Definitely a great teaser! |
jppbl   
Dec 16, 2007
| Great teaser! I had to start over once or twice!! |
lesliep72875   
Dec 17, 2007
| Great job! It took me a few tries, but I finally got it. Good fun!  |
chaskey   
Dec 17, 2007
| A cinch! I got it on the third time around! The clues are beautifully done.  |
lgleaves   
Dec 19, 2007
| heyz! i know this sounds like im stpid, but it took me about three or four tries to get it right! HOW DO PEOPLE COME UP WITH THIS KIND OF THING?! |
4demo 
Dec 23, 2007
| Interesting storyline and good teaser, but very difficult! I gave up about a third of the way through.  |
MorbidLies   
Dec 26, 2007
| Great teaser.. I gave up..  |
kratsg  
Dec 26, 2007
| Very Nice. Took me an hour... and lots of self-muttering and ramblings :-P
I'm not totally used to a logic grid puzzle, but it helps :-o (the flash pop-up part of it xD)
The two big clues you gave us seemed to help a lot, "the items are" etc... was the big one that pretty much solved the puzzle for me as soon as I had all the other clues figured out. |
harmony75
Dec 30, 2007
| awesome... challenging, but I got it the first try! It was hard to not use what I actually knew about the places... and it was tempting to put the postcard as 1 euro!  |
Scubee   
Jan 16, 2008
| Great grid! |
mocha613   
Jan 16, 2008
| Thank you all for the wonderful comments. This was my first teaser, so I'm glad you like it so much! |
gracieboo 
Jan 30, 2008
| Wow! The book was the only one I got right all the way across! Tough Teaser!  |
TRILLIONAIRE   
Jan 30, 2008
| Great teaser, again!  |
Smithy   
May 04, 2008
| Nice teaser! Took me a good 15 minutes, fantastic workout  |
mom_rox  
Jun 04, 2008
| I had gotten to the same point as Winner4600. Thanks for asking the question about the rails (d'oh). Very clever puzzle.  |
locomom   
Jul 01, 2008
| WOW...if this was your first teaser, we are in for some challenges in the future from you. This was really good. Took me two tries! Thanks for the fun!!  |
4demo 
Jun 17, 2009
| Well, 1.5 years later, I manage to successfully complete it in who knows how long.
I think I already complimented this teaser, but... great teaser, in case you missed it the first time around.  |
chriscat
Nov 01, 2010
| Nice puzzle -- very well done. That's one pricey postcard, though ! |
Obilio  
Feb 18, 2013
| Great teaser, Thank you  |
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