On a certain game show, five families were asked to match famous names to faces they were shown, and each correct guess got one point. The families made the following guesses (in order):

The Addams' guessed Otto, Roebling, Steinmetz, Tesla, and Westinghouse.
The Bunkers guessed Tesla, Westinghouse, Otto, Steinmetz, and Roebling.
The Cunninghams guessed Roebling, Tesla, Steinmetz, Westinghouse, and Otto.
The Flintstones guessed Tesla, Roebling, Otto, Steinmetz, and Westinghouse.
The Jetsons guessed Tesla, Westinghouse, Steinmetz, Otto, and Roebling.

No two families got the same number of points. Which family walked home with the grand prize?

(In reply to Solution How ??? by Nikhil Dhokale)

ND - someone mentioned in an earlier comment that no family can get a score of 4, since it's not a multiple choice kind of thing.  You are putting 5 names in an order.  If you put one out of order, you are automatically putting another one out of order.  I hope I made sense.

And since all families had different scores, they must be 0, 1, 2, 3 and 5.  That means someone got all 5 right and someone got all 5 wrong.

After that I'm not sure if there is a better way to figure the rest out other than assuming each family got all 5 right and then figuring out the scores of the others.  Penny had some ideas in an earlier comment.

Posted by nikki on 2005-05-04 22:38:10