Project: WEEKLY PUZZLE FUN (wpf7)

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

What you'll likely encounter is that there will be more indirect clues (ie knocking something out directly from a clue in one area, which can have secondary elimination moves elsewhere on the grid). Some of the existing puzzles have aspects like this, but may not have as heavily utilized them as central means to solving the puzzle.

Remember, keeping track of what has been eliminated is just as important as tracking what has been identified. A lot of trouble or dead ends emerged when people were not keeping full inventory on grid box eliminations.

I found this one had a lot of opportunities for secondary and event tertiary unlocking of confirmed clues. So keep an eye out for cross-referencing possibilities.

The local aerophobe (one with a fear of flying) support group has several members who each need to take a flight. Match each aerophobe to their flight date and destination, and determine what “lucky charm” each intends to bring with them.

1. The flier with the shamrock is either Rudy or the aerophobe leaving in May.
2. Eloise will leave sometime after Olive.
3. The flier with the lucky hat will leave 1 month before the flier with the talisman.
4. The aerophobe with the talisman is either the passenger leaving in March or the aerophobe leaving in February.
5. Katie won't bring a rabbit's foot.
6. Velma won't bring a horseshoe.
7. Neal, the flier going to Michigan, the flier leaving in April, the passenger going to Ohio, the aerophobe going to Utah and the passenger going to Illinois are all different fliers.
8. Velma will leave 3 months after Olive.
9. The aerophobe leaving in April won't bring a rabbit's foot.
10. The passenger going to Ohio is either the aerophobe with the lucky hat or the flier with the coin.
11. Of the aerophobe leaving in February and the passenger leaving in May, one will go to Michigan and the other will bring their coin.
12. The flier going to Wyoming will leave 3 months before Katie.
13. Neal won't go to South Carolina.
14. Of the aerophobe going to Wyoming and the passenger going to Utah, one is Rudy and the other will leave in May.
15. Eloise will leave 3 months before Jaime.

Logic grids are not the only form of logic puzzle; here is another one that relies heavily on logic and reasoning in order to sift through.

A word math puzzle is one where the numbers 0-9 have been replaced with various letters of the alphabet; it is your task to determine what number each letter maps to, and report that to me in the project submission.

For this sort of problem, you will likely want to take notes; all the various little tests you concoct to prove or disprove some relationship. This may also take a bit longer and seem more overwhelming, but really, it is just longhand math :) Remember to attack the problem in pieces, and not head-on all-at-once.

Practice some similar math problems to derive patterns so that the seemingly unfamiliar letters performing math can start to make more sense.

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  ANGLING | CLINICALLY
           -YGCSFICA
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             YACTTFIL
            -LGSTILST
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              AIGNGLSY
             -AAFYTLFL
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               CGTCFSL

To submit this weekly puzzle, simply run the submit line below; a submit-time questionnaire will collect your puzzle results.

When you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following:

lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$ submit discrete wpf7
Submitting discrete project "wpf7":

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