When 5 friends appeared at a formal dance, they noticed something. They were all wearing different colored suspenders, ties and shirts. Throughout the 5 of them, there were white, black, red, green, blue colored types of each. 7 pictures including them were taken. The only problem was somebody later on wanted to know what color tie and shirt the man with the black suspenders had, but that never appeared in the notes taken on each picture. Also, can you figure out what each other person wore as well?

Here are the notes on each picture taken. (They were all taken without clothes changes, but the friends might have changed involvement and position. Every one of the 4 people involved in each picture is mentioned; there are no tricks in the wording.)

Picture 1: The photographer decided to move the person with the black shirt between the person with the red tie and the person with white suspenders, and put the person with white shirt on the other side of the person with the white suspenders.

Picture 2: The photographer decided to place the three people wearing red things behind the person wearing the white tie.

Picture 3: The photographer wanted to place the person with the green tie next to the person with black shirt, and put the people with green and blue suspenders behind them.

Picture 4: The photographer decided to put the person with the white suspenders in the middle, with the person wearing the green tie in front of them. Then the people wearing red and green shirt were placed behind them.

Picture 5: The photographer decided to do the same orientation as the last picture; putting the person with the green suspenders behind the person with the person with the black tie, and putting the people with white and blue shirt in the back.

Picture 6: The photographer wanted to place the people with the blue and white suspenders in front, and the person with the black tie and the person with the green shirt behind them.

Picture 7: The photographer decided to include one person who was a friend of the person with the red suspenders and a friend of the person wearing black shirt on this picture.

Based on these notes by the photographer, can you figure out what color tie and shirt the man with the black suspenders had? Also, can you figure out what color shirt, tie, and suspenders the other four people had?

Archie: GREEN shirt, GREEN suspenders, RED tie
Bradly: WHITE shirt, RED suspenders, GREEN tie
Chucky: BLUE shirt, WHITE suspenders, WHITE tie
Dwayne: RED shirt, BLUE suspenders, BLUE tie
Edward: BLACK shirt, BLACK suspenders, BLACK tie

Picture 1: Archie, Edward, Chucky, Bradly
Picture 2: Chucky (front); Archie, Bradly, Dwayne (back)
Picture 3: Bradly, Edward (front); Archie, Dwayne (back)
Picture 4: Bradly (front); Chucky (mid); Dwayne, Archie (back)
Picture 5: Edward (front); Archie (mid); Bradly, Chucky (back)
Picture 6: Dwayne, Chucky (front); Edward, Archie (back)
Picture 7: Chucky, Bradly, Dwayne, Edward

The names of the friends were not provided in the puzzle, so I decided to provide them. :-)

Posted by Dej Mar on 2010-07-13 03:46:07