Project: 4x4 LOGIC PUZZLE - WEEKLY PUZZLE FUN (wpf0)

To apply your skills in the solving of a logic puzzle.

The Porterville High School varsity baseball team just finished its best season yet! Match each player to his position and jersey number, and determine how many games they played this season.

1. Gina played 2 fewer games than the player who wore number 32.
2. The person who played shortstop played somewhat fewer games than Jorge.
3. The player who played 9 games played shortstop.
4. Russell was either the person who played 10 games or the person who played center field.
5. Jorge didn't play 10 games.
6. The person who played 8 games was either the person who played shortstop or the player who played left field.
7. The person who played 9 games wore number 21.
8. Gina was either the person who wore number 3 or the person who played 11 games.

• What do we know about Jorge playing 9 games?
  • How did we first determine this?
• What do we know about Russell playing 9 games?
  • When was this first able to be determined?
• How were we able to figure out how many games Gina played?

To submit this weekly puzzle, place your solution and your responses to the questions above into a text file on lab46 and submit it using the submit tool.

Your solution can simply be of the form:

Gina: X games, Position, Jersey #
Jorge: Y games, Position, Jersey #
etc.

Let's say you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following (assuming you have a text file called wpf0.text):

lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$ submit discrete wpf0 wpf0.text
Submitting discrete project "wpf0":
    -> wpf0.text(OK) 

SUCCESSFULLY SUBMITTED
lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$