This kind of puzzle can easily give you bad coordinates, so make
sure you know you have the right ones before you set out! I have
provided you with an 
link...you have no excuse!
This is a logic puzzle from one of my wife's puzzle books (now long
out of print).
I hated these when we were given them in school...It's the one kind
of puzzle I'm only average at 
.
The Lady, on the other hand, goes through these like popcorn...
The Wildlife Walk
Just north of the village of Maple Hollow, there are five farm
properties extending in a northerly direction along the east side
of a country road; a small stream called Bear Creek meanders in a
northerly direction through the three southernmost of the five,
then veers sharply eastward without touching the other two
properties.
Last summer the nature counselor at Maple Hollow Day Camp
obtained permission from the Cranes and the other four owners to
take a group of youngsters on a hike going in a northerly direction
through the wooded areas of the properties in order to observe the
wildlife.
During the hike, Carl and the other four children who
participated each spotted a different animal and each, as it
happens, was spotted on a different property. From the following
clues, can you give the relative locations of the five farms, who
owns which, and tell who spotted what where? (One of the animals
sighted was a squirrel.)
- The hike did not start or finish on the Moore farm, and the
rabbit was not sighted on the Moore's property.
- Jill spotted her animal by an oak tree growing alongside Bear
Creek; it was not the deer.
- Daisy sighted the first animal.
- The Brooks farm, which is not where Will spotted an animal, is
north of at least one of the others but south of the one where a
fox was seen running away from a red barn.
- The deer was not the first animal sighted.
- Ellen spotted her animal on the Arden farm; it was the next
animal to be sighted after the skunk.
- Bear Creek runs through the Noble farm.
- One of the Brooks's two immediate neighbors owns the only one
of the five farms with a red barn.
- One of the boys spotted the skunk as it was drinking from Bear
Creek.
The coordinates of the cache are:
N 42°50.BrooksWillSquirrel
W 085° 38.MooreCarlRabbit
So, only six numbers are used. The other nine numbers don't mean
anything!
This means that there are only 3,603,600 possible combinations
for the coordinates if you'd like to try each one of them
Actually, now that I think about it, since you need to use exactly
two numbers from each column, there are only 8,000 possible
combinations. That's much easier!
|
 |
Because Gasoline is a
Terrible Thing to Waste...
(especially at
$2.85/gal.) |
First to Solve:
mark&girls
First to Find:
Tom_Kat
Second to Find:
Team Sand Dollar
Third to Find:
Ranger Sue