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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.
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Submitted by Captain Paradox
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Rating: 3.8182 (11 votes)
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The five Snowstorms are Ruthie's, Orwell's, and the Black Olive (which were all medium-size), Norm's and Keats's (which were large-size) (clues 1 and 3). Quint ordered a Pepperoni Snowstorm (clue 2), so Quint must be either Ruthie or Norm. If Quint was Ruthie, that would mean the Pepperoni, Chislic, and Monterey Jack Snowstorms were all ordered by women (clue 4), so Jethro must have ordered the Black Olive Snowstorm. Ingalls would have to be Jethro or Norm, but Ingalls is a woman (clue 6) so something must be screwed up.
We now know that Norm is Quint and ordered the Pepperoni Snowstorm. Jethro did not try the Guacamole (clue 5), Chislic, Monterey Jack (clue 4), or Pepperoni, so he must have had the Black Olive Snowstorm. Deanne, who isn't Keats (clue 3) must be Orwell, leaving Paula as Keats, Ruthie as Ingalls, and Jethro as Bones. The Guacamole Snowstorm was large, so it must be Keats's (clue 3). Ingalls didn't have the Monterey Jack Snowstorm (clue 6), so Ruthie did, and Paula had the Chislic Snowstorm.
In summary:
Ruthie Ingalls, Monterey Jack
Jethro Bones, Black Olive
Paula Keats, Guacamole
Norm Quint, Pepperoni
Deanne Orwell, Chislic |
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