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Most of the students attending Heartwood Middle School have birthdays during the school year. For those who don't, they have a special birthday party on the last day of school. This year there are five. Your job is to figure out the five students' birthdays, their full names, and their ages from the clues presented below. The ages in the grid represent their new ages on their birthday.
1) Iris is younger than Elliott, who was born on August 6th.
2) Avery is older than Ken.
3) Amy, older than Scott and Elliott, has a birthday on the 16th.
4) Ken was born on the 6th.
5) The youngest person was born in June.
6) Wyatt and Eli are the two oldest.
7) Ada and Scott have the first and last birthdays in summer.
8) The student who will be 15 has a July 3rd birthday.
9) The 19th is in August.
10) Eli is 14 when school ends on June 8th.
11) Scott is the youngest.
12) Ken is younger than Amy by just 21 days.
1) Iris is younger than Elliott, who was born on August 6th.
2) Avery is older than Ken.
3) Amy, older than Scott and Elliott, has a birthday on the 16th.
4) Ken was born on the 6th.
5) The youngest person was born in June.
6) Wyatt and Eli are the two oldest.
7) Ada and Scott have the first and last birthdays in summer.
8) The student who will be 15 has a July 3rd birthday.
9) The 19th is in August.
10) Eli is 14 when school ends on June 8th.
11) Scott is the youngest.
12) Ken is younger than Amy by just 21 days.
Answer
1) Ada Wyatt will be 14 on August 19th.2) Amy Turner will be 13 on July 16th.
3) Iris Scott will be 12 on June 30th.
4) Eli Avery will be 15 on July 3rd.
5) Ken Elliott will be 13 on August 6th.
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Wow - a really good one. I messed up the first time, but got it the second. Thanks for a great teaser.
Looking at the teaser, I believe you can interchange two of the answers. I think you used the "Avery is older than Ken" clue to have us assume that Avery is older year-wise to Ken. The last clue, though, uses days to differentiate Ken and Amy. This means that Amy and Eli could have their last names interchanged with Avery and Turner without contradicting the clues given as both solutions agree with clue 2, the only time either Avery or Turner is shown.
This is a great teaser that just needs clue two tweaked to make it completely solveable.
This is a great teaser that just needs clue two tweaked to make it completely solveable.
i must be slow, i didnt think it made any sense
i agree with kat98. i was really confused. i'll try again and keep in mind that i don't know what month the days are in!!!!!!! lol!!!!!
I agree with the comment on Avery and Turner. I got it all the way solved, but can't differentiate which is Avery and which is Turner. The only clue with either name is true for both!! Other than that I thought it was a good teaser!
that was kinda hard. it was confusing, but i got some of it right! woo-hoo! lol!
This was kind of confusing for me at first ... but I got it after I looked again...
i think it would be more understandable if you specified at the beginning whether the ages refferred to how old they are at the preset time, or whether they refferred to how old they were turning, this might just be me, but i got confused that way........otherwise great/fun teaser
I was confused. The "Ken is younger than Amy by just 21 days" comment!! I must be slower than I though.
Yay, I got it!!!!! Now I really feel stupid. lol That was a good one!
I am confused but I am tired also
I thought it was pretty straightforward. There are only two birthdays twenty one days apart with the correct months. The Avery clue is there, also. I didn't even give it the "hardest" score, since I save those for cinnamon30's puzzles now. I liked that it took more than 5 minutes to solve. It's harder than the one I just submitted. Good job!
pretty easy, except...did you have to use Eli and Elliot? The first time, I thought it was just a typo! Also, the last names that could be first names were confusing...
Pretty good Puzzle, except, as others have stated, Avery and Turner are not nailed down. The only clue that mentions either of them (that Avery is older than Ken) could apply to either Eli or Amy. There is no way to differentiate. Otherwise Good Job!
great puzzle.... I agree that Avery and Turner need to be locked down better, but even still maybe in the future Amy marries Eli and becomes an Avery anyways.....lol
it's irritating when there is no clear answer. If there's a way to differentiate Avery and Turner, I'd like to know. Otherwise, good teaser.
I thought it was a good teaser
Good Job! I messed this one up the first time but came back and got it.
I assumed the ages given were their current ages, not the ages they were going to turn... that mess everything up
ones i started using the right ages it all worked out pretty quickly
I agree that Avery and Turner need to be disambiguated, but that was a great & fun teaser to solve!
This was a fun teaser, but I have to agree with the Avery/Turner issue. No way to differentiate between them. Maybe you could correct that, put something in clue 2 or write another clue???
To those who commented on the age confusion (current/age on birthday), The last sentence of the intro clearly states, ages in the grid are the ages they will be on their birthdays.
To those who commented on the age confusion (current/age on birthday), The last sentence of the intro clearly states, ages in the grid are the ages they will be on their birthdays.
will try this one later
this is also taken from the logic book.
Excellent job, got it the second time. Schools in the US finish in early June? schools in Europe go right through toward the end of July, and restart 1st week in September, it must make it hard for US students to compete, if my maths is correct, they get about 7% less education than their European competitors, assuming they do the same number of years at school.
Hmm, I came up with:
Ada Turner - 19th. August 13 years
Amy Wyatt - 16th July 14 years
the rest like in the answer ... but I seem to be blind: I cant find a contradiction to the clues ...
Ada Turner - 19th. August 13 years
Amy Wyatt - 16th July 14 years
the rest like in the answer ... but I seem to be blind: I cant find a contradiction to the clues ...
In clue 7, the information is not necessarily respectively.
Also, I have to concur in the confusion regarding first names Amy, Eli and last names Avery, Turner. I established that Amy ___ and Ken Elliott are reaching age 13 on July 16 and Aug. 6 respectively, so clue 2 does indeed allow for the name Amy Avery. The puzzle writer needed to consider days, not just the number of years.
I have the facebook account carl.moore.7792 , and I have added a remark (both on my timeline and in a photo album about half-birthday & birthday of 2016) about this puzzle. I myself have an August 2 birthday, and that left me without a school celebration. I point out (in that photo album's introductory remarks) that a combined celebration for summer-vacation birthdays is not quite enough, because it leaves those people without the individual attention that an in-school-year birthday gets. Also don't forget that further adjustments are needed for birthday or half-birthday falling near Christmas holidays.
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