Logic020: What is the color of the hat?

(Difficulty Level:

2)

Mrs. Harrison has 6 lovely hats, 3 blue, 2 yellow and one pink. Alice, Betty, Cindy and Debbie are lined up as shown in the figure. Mrs. Harrison help them put the hats on them so they will not see what color hat they have on. Alice can see what color of hats Betty, Cindy and Debbie are wearing. Betty can see what color of hats Cindy and Debbie are wearing. Cindy can see what color hat Debbie is wearing. Debbie can not see any of the hat colors. Mrs. Harrison ask them what color of the hat they are wearing. Alice said she can not tell. Betty said she can not tell either. Cindy also can not tell. However, Debbie was able to tell what color she was wearing after knowing that everyone else could not tell. How did Debbie figure out what color she was wearing?

If none of the following statements are true, who can we conclude broke the vase? Mike: Sally broke the vase. Tom: Mike will tell you who broke the vase. April: Tom, Mike & I could not have broken the vase. Chris: I did not break the vase. Erik: Mike broke the vase, so Tom & April couldn't have. Jim: I broke the vase, so Tom is innocent.

Answer

Chris. If the statement "I did not break the vase" is definitely false, we can be certain that Chris broke the vase. Statements that some individuals "couldn't have" broken the vase only mean that these individuals could have broken the vase, but do not guarantee that they did. Jim's statement that "Tom is innocent" is too vague. We know that Tom is not innocent, but this does not assure us that he broke the vase.

12. If each letter in the following equations represents a number from 1 through 9, determine what number each letter represents. A. A+A+B+C = 13 B. A+B+C+D = 14 C. B+B+C+D = 13

Answer

A=3, B=2, C=5, and D=4. An alternate answer is A=2, B=1, C=8, and D=3, which was found by Jill (no last name specified) & by Sharon Kienzle. Ms. Kienzle also found A=4, B=3, C=2, & D=5.

he following word pairs are anagrams which can be combined to form the name of an animal or insect. However, be careful. A few of the pairs include one extra letter just to make things more difficult. Regular anagrams are worth one point; anagrams with one extra letter are worth two points. Good luck!

21. camel shone

Answer

chameleon -s antelope

22. lone tape

Answer

23. cot soup

Answer

octopus

Answer 25. boa luff

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buffalo armadillo

26. moral dial

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If you take a marker & start from a corner on a cube, what is the maximum number of edges you can trace across if you never trace across the same edge twice, never remove the marker from the cube, & never trace anywhere on the cube, except for the corners & edges?

Answer:

9. To verify this, you can make a drawing of a cube, & number each of its 12 edges. Then, always starting from 1 corner & 1 edge, you can determine all of the possible paths for tracing along the edges of a cube. There is no need to start from other corners or edges of the cube, as you will only be repeating the same paths.

The process is a little more involved than this, but is useful for solving many types of spatial and logical puzzles.