Critical Thinking Puzzle
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One day, five couples and their children (each couple had only one child) spent the day at an amusement park. They all enjoyed the day tremendously despite the fact that each child managed to get lost at some point during the day. Using the clues and the grids below, determine the full name of each couple, the name and age of each couple’s child, and where each lost child was found.
- George, whose last name isn’t Smith, is a good friend of Bill Walker, who is not Susie’s father.
- The ages of the children from lowest to highest are the 6 year old, Ann, the one found by the teacups, George’s son, and Jane’s child.
- Michael Charming, whose 10-year-old child is the oldest, helped Stan find his daughter, who is a year younger than Ann, by the carousel. Stan’s last name isn’t Smith.
- The boy found at the ferris wheel is younger than John but older than Ann. Mary is older than Susie but younger than Tom.
- Sally Jackson didn’t find her son at the teacups or the roller coaster. When she looked by the flume, she found Kim’s 7-year-old child.
- Al and Linda’s child, who is 8, is the best friend of Michelle’s daughter, who is two years younger.
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Can you find all the words in the word list in the grid below? The words can be found horizantally, vertically, diagonally, and backwords.
One day, five mothers each brought their only child to Zoo The children had a glorious time together watching the different animals and eating their favorite snacks. The kids were so good, at the end of the day each mother let her child get one item from the souvenir shop as they were leaving the zoo. Can you determine the full name of each child, each child’s favorite snack and animal, and the souvenir each brought home?
- Julia, who loves cotton candy, didn’t like the elephants. Mary didn’t get a caramel apple. The child who got the stuffed animal liked the giraffes best.
- Alan Small, the girl who liked the lions, and the child who got the activity set didn’t want to leave the zoo.
- Neither of the boys got fried dough, but one got nachos and the other one liked the monkeys best. Tom didn’t get a poster.
- The Brown child almost got a coloring book with Mary but finally decided on a poster.
- Tom, whose last name isn’t Proctor, got a toy gun but didn’t get a caramel apple. The MacGregor child had fried dough.
- Beth, who didn’t like the giraffes or the elephants best, got an activity set.
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Five bachelors who all lived in the same apartment building each ordered an item from the same catalog. Unfortunately, the shippers got confused and each item was delivered to the wrong apartment. Can you determine each man’s full name, what each man ordered and what was actually delivered, and which apartment each man lived in.
- Roger, who doesn’t live in an end apartment, ordered the Television set. Tom lived next door to the man who received the dishware.
- Mr. Weiseman, who didn’t receive the automotive tools, lives two apartments from the man who ordered the downhill skis and one apartment from Harry.
- Ed, whose last name isn’t Smith, lives in apartment #3 but he didn’t receive the automotive tools. Mr. Smith, who doesn’t live in apartment #4, ordered the golf clubs but he received the item that Mr. Campbell ordered, which wasn’t downhill skis.
- The bachelor in apartment #1, which isn’t Tom, ordered what Al received. The man in apartment #2, who didn’t receive the golf clubs, lives next door to where what he ordered was delivered.
- Mr. Bates didn’t order the downhill skis. The television set was not delivered to Ed’s apartment.
- Tom lives in apartment #5.
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John Farmer woke up one morning to pandemonium in his barnyard. The gate had been left open and the animals had wandered out during the night. When he looked out the window, he could see the chickens and the sheep. By the time he got downstairs he could see the goats, too. But he had to hunt for the cows and the horses. After an hour of running around, Jake finally got all his animals back in their pens. Using the clues below, determine how many of each animal the farmer had to find, what kind of mischief each type of animal got into, and how long it took the farmer to return each group of animals to their pens.
- The animals running loose on the neighbor’s lawn were not the goats.
- The twelve chickens, who were not eating Jake’s vegetable garden, took the most time to return to their pen.
- Jake had five of one type of animal; he had an even number of all the other animals.
- The animals he had the least number of were the ones found in the grain room. The animals he had the most of took him twenty minutes to catch.
- The animals Jake had only two of took five minutes to catch while the animals he had six of took twice as long to catch.
- Jake had six more chickens than goats but two more goats than sheep.
- It took five minutes more to catch the horses than it took to catch the animals in the hay field but getting the horses took five minutes less than collecting the animals scattered around the barnyard.
- It took Jake the same amount of time to collect the four animals in the hay field as it did to collect the goats.
ANIMAL Number of animals Animals’ location time CHICKENS COWS GOATS x HORSES SHEEP x View SolutionSubmit Solution- 1,634.4K views
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Mrs. Robinson’s 4th grade class took a field trip to the local zoo. The day was sunny and warm – a perfect day to spend at the zoo. The kids had a great time and the monkeys were voted the class favorite animal. The zoo had four monkeys – two males and two females. It was lunchtime for the monkeys and as the kids watched, each one ate a different fruit in their favorite resting place. Can you determine the name of each monkey, what kind of fruit each monkey ate, and where their favorite resting place was?
- Sam, who doesn’t like bananas, likes sitting on the grass.
- The monkey who sat on the rock ate the apple. The monkey who ate the pear didn’t sit on the tree branch.
- Anna sat by the stream but she didn’t eat the pear.
- Harriet didn’t sit on the tree branch. Mike doesn’t like oranges.
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Five parents pick-up their children at the Puzzlefry Elementary School every Tuesday to bring the kids to their afterschool activity. Colleen and the four other children all attended a different afterschool activity and their parents always arrive at different times (between 3:00 pm and 3:30 pm). Determine each child’s full name, the first name of the parent picking them up (all the parents’ last names are the same as their child’s), the time each was picked up, and the activity each child is being brought to.
- Margie’s best friend’s mother, Mrs. Dobson, arrived before Cathy came to pick up her son. Mrs. Walsh picked up her daughter for fencing.
- Josh Steinway loved football as much as Donno liked chess, and they both liked being the last two to be picked up.
- David Holden picked up his daughter for her hiking as soon as he could, but Lynne was always there before he was.
- Margie liked being the first one picked up but she didn’t take ballet or hiking.
- Lynne’s daughter was not Margie.
- In order of their departure from school: Ann, the girl who took ballet, Mary Holden, the boy who took football, and Capri Johnson.
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John Steve, owner of a club name “The Horse Club”, had a problem. He had five guests coming next week who all wanted to ride. Unfortunately, he only had four horses available. Each of the guests wanted to spend most of their five day stay riding. And to make matters worse, they preferred riding the same horse all week! After scratching his head almost bald, he finally came up with a plan that allowed each guest to ride on four days and on the same horse for at least two of the days. Using the grid and clues below, determine the full name of each guest, on which days each guest rode (each guest rode on four out of five days), and on which horses (the four horses were ridden every day).
- Each horse was ridden by three different people. Brenda, who didn’t ride Paint, rode the same horse for three days and a different one on Monday.
- On Wednesday, the person whose last name is Wish rode Sunny, Mr. Grant rode Paint, Mary rode Rosie, and Flip was ridden by the person whose last name was Bend.
- The horse, Paint, was ridden twice in a row by both Fred, who only rode two horses, and the one who rode Flip on Friday.
- Ms. Nash and Stuart each rode Sunny on one day. Tom rode three different horses.
- On Tuesday, Brenda didn’t ride, Mr. Grant rode Flip, Mary rode on the same horse that she rode for the rest of the week, Stuart Bend rode, and Tom rode Paint.
- Brenda, the woman who rode Sunny on Monday, and Mr. Flight all rode Rosie. Mary didn’t ride on Thursday.
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Sally and three of her friends decided to plant a new tree in their yard to celebrate Go Green Day. The new trees would each be put in a different area of their yards. As it happened each friend bought a different kind of tree and planted the new tree on a different day of the week. From the clues below, determine the full names of each friend, what kind of tree each bought, where in the yard it was planted, and on what day of the week each tree was planted. 
- Wanda, whose last name wasn’t Frost, didn’t plant her spruce tree by the patio.
- Tracy planted her tree before Mrs. Dart but after the woman who planted the ash tree.
- Mrs. Best, whose first name wasn’t Sally, planted her tree in the front yard, but not on Friday.
- Rhonda didn’t plant her tree on Monday.
- Mrs. Grand planted her tree before the woman who planted her tree in the back yard. Rhonda didn’t plant the cherry tree.
- The trees were planted, in chronological order, as follows: Mrs. Frost, in the garden, Wanda, the maple tree.
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Five friends pooled their resources one day and pieced a CD together from songs they had written. They called their band “The Puzzle Fry” and ended up playing a number of live gigs at local events. Determine the full name of each band member, the instrument (or mixing console) each played, the brand of equipment each used, plus each member’s favorite magazine.
- Steve wasn’t the sound engineer. One of the women enjoyed EQ magazine.
- Angie and Steve didn’t like Recording magazine. The bass player used Ibanez equipment.
- Mr. Magnus didn’t use Mackie equipment. Mark’s last name wasn’t Hydal and he didn’t play keyboard.
- The sound engineer, whose last name wasn’t Engel, enjoyed reading Mix magazine. The person who used Yamaha drums wasn’t Robert, but their last name is Hydal.
- The five band members (in no particular order) were: Mark Scott, the female bass player, the person who read Musician, the one who used Peavey equipment, and Robert.
- Shelley’s last name was not Hydal or McArthur and she didn’t use Roland equipment. Mackie only developed equipment for live sound and recording NOT musical instruments.
- Steve McArthur was the guitarist.
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Imagine that you’re about to set off walking down a street. To reach the other end, you’d first have to walk half way there. And to walk half way there, you’d first have to walk a quarter of the way there. And to walk a quarter of the way there, you’d first have to walk an eighth of the way there. And before that a sixteenth of the way there, and then a thirty-second of the way there, a sixty-fourth of the way there, and so on.
Ultimately, in order to perform even the simplest of tasks like walking down a street, you’d have to perform an infinite number of smaller tasks—something that, by definition, is utterly impossible. Not only that, but no matter how small the first part of the journey is said to be, it can always be halved to create another task; the only way in which it cannot be halved would be to consider the first part of the journey to be of absolutely no distance whatsoever, and in order to complete the task of moving no distance whatsoever, you can’t even start your journey in the first place.
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