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Five friends went shopping at different times, days, and at different places. Who went shopping at what place, and what time, and what day?
The boys are Darien and Dennis; the girls are Mina, Amy, and Serena.
clues:
1) Serena doesn't wake up until after noon, and she went somewhere to eat.
2) The toy shopper went on Saturday.
3) Mina went shopping on Monday
4) None of the girls shopped at the bike shop.
5) Dennis did not go out for food.
6) Amy went at 10 AM.
7) Dennis and the cafe shopper went on the weekend.
8) The person who went to the cafe, went after noon.
9) Friday was a busy morning at the grocery store for the girl who shopped there.
10) The person went to the bakery right when it opened, which was at 9:30 AM.
11) The toy shopper went shopping at noon.
12) Mina went earlier in the day than Amy, and Serena went earlier than Darien.
The boys are Darien and Dennis; the girls are Mina, Amy, and Serena.
clues:
1) Serena doesn't wake up until after noon, and she went somewhere to eat.
2) The toy shopper went on Saturday.
3) Mina went shopping on Monday
4) None of the girls shopped at the bike shop.
5) Dennis did not go out for food.
6) Amy went at 10 AM.
7) Dennis and the cafe shopper went on the weekend.
8) The person who went to the cafe, went after noon.
9) Friday was a busy morning at the grocery store for the girl who shopped there.
10) The person went to the bakery right when it opened, which was at 9:30 AM.
11) The toy shopper went shopping at noon.
12) Mina went earlier in the day than Amy, and Serena went earlier than Darien.
Answer
1) Serena doesn't wake up until after noon (Which means she did not go out anytime before noon or at noon), and she went somewhere to eat (So she didn't go to the bike shop or the toy store.).2) The toy shopper went on Saturday (And since we know that Serena isn't the toy shopper, she didn't go on Saturday.).
3) Mina went shopping on Monday (Which means she's not the toy shopper.).
4) None of the girls shopped at the bike shop (That leaves only the boys.).
7) Dennis and the cafe shopper went on the weekend (The cafe shopper went on Sunday, which means Dennis went on Saturday. The toy shopper went on Saturday, so the person is Dennis. This leaves Darien to be the only one to go to the bike shop.).
9) Friday was a busy morning at the grocery store for the girl who shopped there(Morning.).
11) The toy shopper went shopping at noon (Here, we find out that the grocery shopper went at 10 AM, which was Amy.).
12) Mina went earlier in the day than Amy (The only possible answer is 9:30 AM), and Serena went earlier than Darien (Serena went at 1:30 and Darien went at 3 PM. The cafe person went at 1:30-Serena, and she went on Sunday. Amy went to the grocery store, which leaves Mina at the bakery.).
Serena/Cafe/Sunday/1:30 PM
Darien/Bike/Wednesday/3 PM
Amy/Grocery/Friday/10 AM
Mina/Bakery/Monday/9:30 AM
Dennis/Toys/Saturday/Noon
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Easy fun!
Enjoyable, but too easy for me. Too many redundant clues. Of course, maybe it's for the best on Monday morning.
I like how you explained how to do it in your answer. It was pretty easy though. Keep up the good work!
Same hur, e-z, yet fun.
I wonder if Sailor Moon had any infulence on this teaser? If anybody's ever seen it, all names and some charateristics are from the show ex: Serena didn't get up till after noon and went to get something to eat. good teaser
I love Sailor Moon, so most of the names in my teasers are influenced by Sailor Moon. Most people don't notice though because they never watched Sailor Moon.
lol I do!
lol I do!
Great teaser!
fun and easy.
I offer no apologies, this was a horrible logic puzzle. How were we to know Darien went on wednesday? Wednesday was NEVER mentioned, from your clues, it could have also been Tuesday. In addition, how were we supposed to pull specific times from "after noon" and later than "after noon." Horribly done...
I completely disagree. This was a wonderful puzzle. They aren't supposed to put all of the answers in the clues or it ruins the fun. You use process of elimination. Thus the name LOGIC puzzle. Otherwise it would be called decipher the clues puzzle.
I had no problem solving it at all. All of the necessary clues are there, and no assumptions are needed to solve it.
Great job!!
Great job!!
Great puzzle! No problem solving it at all. All necessary info is given in the clues. As for specific times, look at the grid. "After noon" means NOT noon or earlier. that leaves only 2 possible times.
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