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| =====Part 1: 5x5 medium-level difficulty logic-grid puzzle===== | =====Part 1: 5x5 medium-level difficulty logic-grid puzzle===== | ||
| ====Objective==== | ====Objective==== | ||
| - | To apply your skills in the solving of a logic puzzle. We've reset back down to 4x4 grid sizes, while also incrementing the difficulty level a notch-- | + | To apply your skills in the solving of a logic puzzle. We're now back to 5x5 grid sizes, while also incrementing the difficulty level a notch-- " |
| 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 has aspects like this, but may not have as heavily utilized them as central means to solving the 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 has aspects like this, but may not have as heavily utilized them as central means to solving the puzzle. | ||
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| 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. | 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. | ||
| ====Puzzle Backstory==== | ====Puzzle Backstory==== | ||
| - | It is a Presidential election year again, and the Iowa Caucuses are just a few weeks away! So of course every candidate on the ballot is in the state and on the campaign trail. The Sioux City Theatre had a different candidate booked to give a speech every night this past week. Using only the clues below, match each candidate to his or her political party, and determine when each gave their speech and how many people were in attendance. | ||
| + | Angel Investors Inc. regularly makes million-dollar investments in up-and-coming tech startup companies. Using only the clues below, match their latest investments to each company, and determine the founder and product focus of each. | ||
| ====Puzzle==== | ====Puzzle==== | ||
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| ====Clues==== | ====Clues==== | ||
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| - | - Daniel Stead, the person whose speech brought in 850 attendees, and the Independent are three different people. | + | |
| - | - Of the Independent and Conner Dawes, one spoke on January 17th and the other spoke in front of 2,250 attendees. | + | - The five businesses are the business that received the $4,000,000 investment, Byxby.com, the business that sells cameras, Madinkz.com |
| - | - Conner Dawes didn' | + | - The startup that sells robots is either |
| - | - The politician who spoke on January 16th was the Reformist. | + | - Madinkz.com received 1 million dollars less than the business that sells video games. |
| - | - The person who spoke on January 15th was either | + | - The startup that received the $4,000,000 investment wasn' |
| - | - Ashley Dale spoke in front of 2,600 attendees. | + | - Of the business that sells cameras and the startup that received the $4,000,000 investment, one is Zetafish.com and the other was started by Pat Padilla. |
| + | - The startup that received | ||
| + | - Of the startup started by Addie Abrams and Protecha.com, | ||
| =====Part 2: Word Math Puzzle===== | =====Part 2: Word Math Puzzle===== | ||
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