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Beethoven's Wig
Someone has stolen Beethoven's Wig and has put it in one of four locked boxes. The boxes are numbered from 1,2,3,4 in that order. There are four different keys that each has their own color. Use the clues below to figure out which key goes in which box and to find the box where Beethoven's wig is being kept.
1. The green key goes to the third or fourth box
2. The wig is to the left of the fourth box
3. The wig is to the right of the first box
4. The yellow key is to the left of the wig
5. The blue key is to the right of the yellow key and to the left of the green key
6. The red key goes to the first box
1. The green key goes to the third or fourth box
2. The wig is to the left of the fourth box
3. The wig is to the right of the first box
4. The yellow key is to the left of the wig
5. The blue key is to the right of the yellow key and to the left of the green key
6. The red key goes to the first box
Answer
The wig is in the third boxThe red key goes to the first box
The yellow key goes to the second box
The blue key goes to the third box
The green key goes to the fourth box
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shouldn't this be logic-grid? nice teaser tho
Great teaser! One of the only logic teasers I've gotten! Yay me!
This one was fun & easy. Good job!
Good one, good clues
Not too difficult, not too easy! Clever
clever!!
well my first time and i got it
Nice Teaser
good job, it was easy but fun!! enjoyed it.
hmmm... should be in logic grid but i love it anyway
its was the first one i ever got rite ! its was really easy and kinda fun! great teaser!
Fun & easy! Great one!
had 2 write it down but 1 of my favorites!!
should be a logic grid... good one anyways, tho.
very fun!!
Fun teaser to introduce people to logic type problems. I don't usually go for logic type problems (setting up grids is a pain) but you cut the work by at least half. I got this without using anything other than (limited ) brain power. Perhaps you could call this puzzle a logic-line which leads one to the answer. Good job!
Good one! The worst part was trying to find the grid so that my poor brain wouldn't be alone. But I survived. Happily!
Jul 24, 2005
A good begginner problem, for say 10 year olds, but far too easy for anyone older. Took me about Five Minutes to figure out.
Clues 1 and 3 are redundant. Clues 5 and 6 give order of boxes.
Clue 4 tells you key is in 3 or 4
Clue 2 tells you it isn't in 4
Clue 4 tells you key is in 3 or 4
Clue 2 tells you it isn't in 4
THOSE WERE GREAT! GOOD ONES!
took a couple of minutes, but i got it. interesting.
Cleverly put together so that it made you think, but you could still get it. I loved it!
it was ok but the work was a little hard u had to really concentrate nice teaser though
easy but fun
I liked it a lot!
Really easy
it was really really really easy but i actually got that one
this was quick and painless, but I had fun with it!
Simple, but I love it!
I agree with rac76, we didn't even need to use any paper for this one, but it was fun.
Took me all of 30 seconeds, but hey, i had alot of fun in that time!
Pretty darn easy, but I enjoyed it. Clues were more like answers than clues. Could have been a bit tougher.
very cute, I likes it.
well i got half of it, i got the # of the box but the wrong key. really good teaser. but not easy {for me} but i keep trying. i did solve one. that's 1 out of about a 100.
BU TAI NAN. (NOT TOO DIFFICULT)
ACTUALLY QUITE EASY, BUT FUN
ACTUALLY QUITE EASY, BUT FUN
Do you know how really nasty those wigs were? And the lice...and there was a market for stolen wigs...but alas Mr. B, I'm sorry I could not help you. But you're rich, just by another one.
Good One.
Good One.
I love logic puzzles and I got this one correct. Thanks for a good teaser to start my day off right.
Very logical, and sensibly written. Not too tough for youngsters, yet it will still work your mind. It is only fun, if you can enjoy working w/numbers. Awesome puzzle!
Once I broke out the paper (cuz I can't keep things in order in my head!) it was short & fun. Thanks for the wake up!
I got it -i got it -yeah-yeah-yeah I liked it really well , it was easy, but it still challenged my brain
I really liked your teaser it was fun and easy but tricky enough that it made me think for a while. you did a gr8 job so keep up the good work!!!!!
Really easy
Wow, I surprised myself with that... but I love logic puzzles. At first glance I thought, hmm, do I need a grid? But then I read through, saw all the aforementioned redundancies, and started picturing the coloured keys being placed in order and I knew exactly where the wig was in less than a minute.
Very easy, but it felt good, so I had fun! ;)
Very easy, but it felt good, so I had fun! ;)
I got the keys right but had to guess which box.Still can;t figure it out.Liked the puzzle though.
Now I seee it.
Easy, but sometimes it's fun to get one quickly!! Doesn't happen all the time. Enjoyed
P.S. Oldchinahand forgot to mention the rattle snake hiding in the key hole.
P.S. Oldchinahand forgot to mention the rattle snake hiding in the key hole.
Too complicated for me. Maybe another time
A logic puzzle that I actually completed!!! Thanks! They're usually to hard for me to get. Others may find the puzzle quite easy, I found it just right!
Great job, but pretty easy. You really didn't need the last clue, but it was still very fun.
It would only need to be in Logic-Grid if it needed and/or was supplied with a grid. This is just logic. I liked it. It was fun.
Nice!
I love these kind--very easy and fun!
Yeah! I got the "lousy wig" right, even had the keys right. I'm ususally not this logical. Great fun tho getting one right for a change.
Easy,Fun,Nice,Fun, THANKS
Yes, of course it could be a logic grid problem - but that would make it too easy. Why not suggest the extra challenge of solving it without paper.
Nicely written. As Sherlock Holmes said"Relatively Comprehensible My Dear Man".
I liked this one, but Clues 5 and 6 made the first clue totally unnecessary.
I love this kind of teaser, but I must admit I had to resort to pen and paper. Just can't hold all those facts in the old brain without help. Easy but very good.
NICE!!!
I GOT IT! EUREKA!!!
Good one! Thanks for posting!
Feb 05, 2010
Fun!
I did not even try! I don't like these teasers! Glad evry one else did!
Easy-Peasy!!
Very easy and I agree w/doehead.
It is my first and it is fun.
Feb 04, 2013
You can't say for sure that the wig is in the 3rd box. It can also be in the second box. There is no link made in the clues between the colour of the keys and where the wig is kept.
KrVa: Yes there is. "The yellow key is to the left of the wig." Since the yellow key opens box 2, the wig must be in 3.
I didn't find it as easy as the rating suggests- I got it; yet I also needed pen and paper to solve it (automatically ratcheting up the difficulty level in my book).
fun...thanks
Pretty easy (which is good since I'm too tired to think much right now). Well laid out. Nice logic puzzle.
This logic teaser was juuusssst right!
Easy teasy. I'm not a big fan of superfluous information. Both clues 1 & 3 are unnecessary. But, a fun mental exercise.
Agree with Snowdog about the superfluous info. I thought overall it was too easy, though.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got it right away after I read all the clues.
A scip model (ie. a linear system of integer/binary variables) to solve this can be found at https://gist.github.com/saska-gist/
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