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Little Dipper - 1 - Polaris Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/12/2017
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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I grew up playing a logic game called Sherlock. I could spend hours on it and I loved playing it (this could be a reason I ended up as an engineer!). So, this is a shout-out to logic puzzles. I have added the link to the game if you are interested in it.
Sherlock Puzzle Game

Special thanks to my sister, thackercachers, for making the logic puzzle clues.



6 people live on a street: Anne, Budge, Chad, Debbie, Erica, and Frank.
The houses are all in a row on one side of the street, so if you're facing them they line up left to right.
Each house is a different color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
Each person owns a unique pet: a dog, a cat, a parrot, a fish, a goat, and a snake.
Each of them has a different number of children: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Each of them prefers a different candy bar: Milky Way, Pay Day, Snickers, Krackle, Mr. Goodbar, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Each of them is a different profession: a teacher, lawyer, dentist, doctor, IT technician, and engineer.

Figure out where each person lives on the street and which characteristics match each person. (Anne, Debbie, and Erica are women.)

  • Budge lives in the house furthest to the left. He does not like Snickers.
  • Anne's house is green.
  • Chad does not have children.
  • The person who lives in the house furthest to the right does not have a dog.
  • Anne lives two houses to the left of a dentist.
  • The house with fish is immediately to the left of the purple house. The purple house is immediately to the left of the house with 3 children.
  • Chad owns the purple house.
  • Erica and her 2 children live 2 houses to the right of the person who loves Pay Days.
  • The engineer and the dentist live at opposite ends of the street.
  • The lawyer lives immediately to the left or right of the owner of a parrot.
  • Frank lives next to the house with 5 children, which is next to the blue house.
  • Debbie's house is orange and she loves Krackle.
  • Budge has more than 2, but less than 5 children.
  • Debbie's first name and occupation start with the same letter.
  • Frank loves his pet goat.
  • Erica lives immediately to the right of the dog owner, who lives immediately to the right of the teacher.
  • The 3 men live on one end of the street, and the 3 women live on the other end of the street.
  • The IT technician is a man.
  • The cat owner does not live next to the snake or parrot owner.
  • The man who likes Resse's Peanut Butter Cups lives three houses down from the woman who likes Snickers.
  • The lawyer loves Milky Ways.
  • The doctor lives two houses down from the person who loves Mr. Goodbars.
  • The owner of the red house has 3 children.
Sherlock - Little Dipper

N 35° 16.X' W 119° 14.Y'

X = 427 - ABC

Y = DEF + 170


For another logic puzzle in Bakersfield, be sure to check out Won't You Be My Neighbor?.

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