Three reporters were discussing the hockey results. The TV reporter said "Either Brazil won gold, or Chile won silver, but not both." The radio reporter similarly started to say "Either Argentine won silver, or Chile won …", but a sudden noise cut him off.

The press reporter, who was lucky enough to hear the complete sentence, could reason out the final order of the three countries. What was it?

SilverKnight,
If the characters in logic puzzles aren't allowed to say odd things there would be a few less logic puzzles.
If sports reporters aren't allowed to say odd things the would be no sports reporters.
My method was to assume the reporter could finish with "Gold", "Silver" or "Bronze".
No consistent order can be found if the reporter says "Bronze" and no unique order if "Silver" so it must have finished "Gold" (and the order follows)
That's why I agree with Trevor - I concede he didn't entertain "Bronze" as a possibility, but I thought that was because, with "Bronze", the podium positions so obviously contradict. I feel I skimmed through his post since we used the similar approaches and our answers matched

Posted by Lee on 2003-10-07 12:48:00