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Richard's Devilish Mini-Golf (Posted on 2005-01-06) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Five professional golfers (including Fiona) opted to wind down from a big match with a relaxing game of miniature golf at Richard’s Devilish Mini-Golf. They discovered, however, that mini-golf wasn't as easy as it looks. Each player scored extremely high on a different hole of the course, and eventually everybody was fuming about their loss and gave up. Using the clues below, can you find out each golfer's full name (one surname is Billings) and the hole he or she screwed up entirely?

1. George, Evans, and the one who blew it on the ball-eating Clown-Face all managed to control themselves after completing their worst hole and were able to return their putters intact.

2. Isaac’s bad luck came at the Stoplight, where the ball got caught inside, just out of reach of his club.

3. George and Hannah both scored quadruple bogies on their worst holes.

4. Ms. Derby and the man who screwed up on the Loop-de-Loop snapped their putters on nearby trees after their worst holes.

5. The one surnamed Chang wasn’t the one who hit a water hazard on the Viking Ship or the one who tallied a triple bogie on the Windmill.

6. Jacob Ambrose hit his ball with too much force on his worst hole, and took several strokes to get it out of the knee-deep sand trap and back onto the green.

See The Solution Submitted by Captain Paradox    
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Solution:

Jacob Ambrose: Loop-de-Loop

Fiona Derby: Windmill

Isaac Evans: Stoplight

George Billings: Viking

Hannah Chang: Clown

I solved this problem using a computer program i like to call my brain. :) I drew two grids, both with all the possible holes (i.e., Windmill, Clown, etc.) at the top and one with only the for certain last (surnames) names on the side (Ms. Derby, Chang, Billings, and Ambrose) and the other with all the other first names along with one undetermined last name (George, Fiona, Isaac, Evans, Hannah, Jacob). I plotted out all the information i knew for each first name and each last name, discovered that Evans was a last name and brought it up to the surname grid, and finally matched up the first names grid with the last. I noticed that most of the people that posted solutions done mentally messed up some of the names, (i.e., Isaac Chang instead of Isaac Evans, Fiona Evans instead of Fiona Derby, etc.).


  Posted by Kareem on 2005-01-13 18:14:16
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