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Dinner Party (Posted on 2004-10-27) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Professor Levik was talking to a colleague who told him about a dinner party he had attended with his wife. The colleague told him the following things about the party:

1. There were four married couples present.
2. Each person had a unique hobby.
3. The eight people were seated around a dinner table with the host and hostess at either end and three people seated on either side.
4. Only one married couple were seated beside each other.
5. A man was seated on either side of the hostess.
6. A woman was seated on either side of the host.
7. The hostess likes to ride horses.
8. Donna collects stamps.
9. Carol and her husband were seated on the same side of the table.
10. The piano player was seated next to his brother-in-law.
11. The person who grows roses was seated next to the person who does needlepoint.
12. Frank was seated directly across from the person who builds model planes.
13. Harold is seated to the immediate right of the hostess.
14. George and Betty were seated directly across from each other.
15. Alice is married to Edward.
16. Donna's sister-in-law is seated directly across from Carol.
17. The piano player was seated next to the hostess.
18. The stamp collector's husband was seated across from the model plane builder.
19. Carol was seated immediately to the left of George.
20. Alice is married to the fisherman.
21. The person who does needlepoint was seated across from the actress.
22. The actress was seated immediately to the right of the host.
23. The fisherman was seated across from his sister.
24. Frank was seated next to Edward.

What was each person's hobby, and where did they sit?

See The Solution Submitted by Erik O.    
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Solution There are actually two valid solutions !!!! | Comment 25 of 53 |

If a valid solution must specify even the sibling relationships (it doesn't ask for that, however), there are two distinct solutions, since one's brother-in-law can be either the husband of one's sister or the brother of one's wife.

In the first solution, the piano player is sitting next to the husband of his sister, and in the second solution he is sitting next to the brother of his wife.

Solution 1:

Hostess and horsewoman Betty, wife of host George, is sitting at the west end of the table.
To Betty's left, at the north end of the table, is piano playing Frank, husband of Donna.
To Frank's left on the north side of the table is fisherman Edward, husband of Alice and brother of Donna. (Edward is Frank's brother-in-law since he is married to Frank's sister Alice).
To Edward's left is actress Alice, wife of Edward and sister of Frank.
To Alice's left, on the east end of the table, is rose-loving host George, husband of hostess Alice.
To George's left, on the south side of the table, is needlepoint expert Carol, wife of Harold.
To Carol's left is stamp-collecting Donna, wife of Frank and sister of Edward.
To Donna's left on the south side of the table is model plane builder Harold, husband of Carol.
 
Solution 2 is like solution 1 except that now Carol, not Alice, is the sister of Frank. (Now Edward is Frank's brother-in-law because he is the brother of Frank's wife.) 

 

Edited on May 24, 2008, 12:12 am
  Posted by Penny on 2004-11-05 12:34:40

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