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Hearts And Spades (Posted on 2003-05-14) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Three playing cards, removed from an ordinary deck, lie face down in a horizontal row.

Immediately to the right of the King there's a Queen or two.

Immediately to the left of a Queen there's a Queen or two.

Immediately to the left of a Heart there's a Spade or two.

Immediately to the right of a Spade there's a Spade or two.

Name the three cards in order.

See The Solution Submitted by Ravi Raja    
Rating: 2.6667 (6 votes)

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re(2): My initial reaction | Comment 15 of 30 |
(In reply to re: My initial reaction by Ravi Raja)

But you are relying on capitalization to yield your meaning? When I read it, I thought of the OR as being logic, so I read it as Immediately to the right of the King, there's a "Queen or two", and since there is only 1 set, you would only need to capitalize the first leter of the set.

I might have worded it as:

Immediately to the right of the King there's at least one Queen.
Immediately to the left of a Queen there's at least one Queen.
Immediately to the left of a Heart there's at least one Spade.
Immediately to the right of a Spade there's at least one Spade.
  Posted by Gamer on 2003-05-16 15:02:37

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