When the Milk Matriarch chain restaurants were issued five new ice cream flavors for their popular “Snowstorm” treat, Randy Randall, proprietor of the Smallsville branch, devised a secret contest. The first person to try one of the new flavors won a second Snowstorm and a free balloon. Within a week, three women (Paula, Ruthie, and Deanne) and two men (Jethro and Norm) had claimed their prizes, each having tried a different flavor. By the snippets below, can you reconstruct each winner’s full name (one surname is Bones) and the Snowstorm he or she stomached?

1. Ruthie, Orwell, and the one who ordered the Black Olive Snowstorm all had ordered medium-sized treats when they won the contest.

2. Quint became the first customer to sample a Pepperoni Snowstorm.

3. When Norm and Keats (who isn’t Deanne) won the contest, they both had bravely ordered large Snowstorms.

4. The first Chislic Snowstorm and the first Monterey Jack snowstorm were both bought by women.

5. Jethro wasn’t the one who ordered a large Guacamole Snowstorm.

6. Mrs. Ingalls (who isn’t Paula) didn’t polish off a Monterey Jack Snowstorm.

(In reply to Solved! by Dissen)

I assumed that in statement 1 Ruthie, Orwell, and the one who ordered the Black Olive Snowstorm were all different people in which case Deanne Orwell couldn't have brought the Black Olive Snowstorm.

I got the following solution:

Paula Keats bought Large Guacamole Snowstorm.
Ruthie Ingalls bought Medium Chislic Snowstorm.
Deanne Orwell bought Medium Monterey Jack Snowstorm.
Jethro Bones bought Medium Black Olive Snowstorm.
Norm Quint bought the Large Pepperoni Snowstorm.

I went throguh with the normal method for solving these puzzles and then I had to make an assumption of Norm having the Guacamole Snowstorm but that had a contradiction so therefore he had to have had the Pepperoni Snowstorm.

Edited on July 8, 2005, 1:01 pm

Posted by Lisa on 2005-07-08 12:53:53