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CSCS2330 Discrete Structures

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Project: 6x6 LOGIC PUZZLE - WEEKLY PUZZLE FUN (wpf2)

Objective

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

Puzzle Backstory

Whistler County just held its annual “Potato Launch” contest, wherein different teams build home-made contraptions and each tries to shoot colored potatoes as far as they can. Using only the clues below, determine each team's best distance (in feet) and match up the type of device each used and the color of the potato they launched.

Puzzle

Clues

  1. Of the team that made it to 135 ft and the team that made it to 180 ft, one used the red potato and the other used the vacuum cannon.
  2. The Russets didn't use the air cannon.
  3. The group that launched the white potato went 30 feet farther than the contestants that used the hybrid sling.
  4. The contestants that used the trebuchet, the team that used the vacuum cannon, the Super Tubers, the group that used the air cannon and the Mad Mashers were all different teams.
  5. The Super Tubers didn't use the red potato.
  6. The Spud Chuckers didn't use the air cannon.
  7. The group that launched the purple potato went 15 feet farther than the team that used the hybrid sling.
  8. The team that launched the purple potato landed 60 feet short of the Potato Bros.
  9. The group that launched the yellow potato landed somewhat short of the group that used the trebuchet.
  10. Of the contestants that used the air cannon and the contestants that used the trebuchet, one scored a distance of 165 ft and the other used the orange potato.
  11. The group that made it to 150 ft didn't use the water cannon.
  12. The Potato Bros didn't use the trebuchet.
  13. The Russets landed somewhat short of the contestants that launched the orange potato.

Submission

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

Submit Tool Usage

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

lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$ submit discrete wpf2
Submitting discrete project "wpf2":

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