Friday, April 29, 2016

Be Fruitful and Multiply


Series VII: Operations : Puzzle 4, Multiply


Imagine 14 people: 7 females (ANN, BETTY, CARLA, DIANA, EDNA, FIONA and GINGER) and 7 males (HARRY, IRA, JACK, KARL, LOUIE, MARCO and NATE).

1) The group includes six young children, three married couples (each a man and a woman), a widowed grandfather of three and a widowed grandmother of four.

2) LOUIE and FIONA are not related by blood or by marriage, and neither of them has a son with five letters in his name. CARLA was named after KARL.

3) Every married couple has the same number of letters in their first names. (EDNA

could be married to JACK, but not to IRA or MARCO, etc.)

4) Every married couple consists of one person with an even number of syllables in their name and a partner with an odd number of syllables in their name.

5) No siblings' initials are consecutive (BETTY is not the sister of ANN or CARLA, etc.)

6) Two of the men have the same mother-in-law. Two of the women have the same father-in-law.

7) One grandchild has five first cousins. The other five grandchildren have one first cousin. None of these six has a name that starts with a vowel.

8) One boy has parents whose names begin with vowels. Another boy has parents whose names have vowels in the center, and another boy has parents whose names end with vowels.

9) The first names of a father and his two sons have two letters in common, as do the first names of a mother and her two daughters.

10) One day, a mother and father took their only child to the store to pick up furniture for his bedroom. They found an abandoned puppy in the parking lot and adopted him. They named him for the place where he was found, which also happens to be made up of the first initials of both of the child’s parents and surviving grandparents.


What is the only child's name? What is the puppy’s name?

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Solution to VII, 3

Series VII: Operations : Puzzle 3, Algebra

 

Some word puzzle people disparage math, but really -- they shouldn't.

Some mathematical and logical expressions have made it into the common parlance, like to be or not to be, forever and ever, and an eye for an eye.

If you got all three of those, it's one point for you

 Sometimes a little algebra is needed, like this:


The doctor said: “You are sick so take two as-Prince and call me in the morning.”
Richard is looking to trade his kingdom for a horse.
John Lennon wonders if you will still feed him when he’s sixtyfour.
Tennys son wrote the poem “Idylls of the King.”

And a little more math is necessary for:

The car commercial encouraged us to “Get a square deel.”
The 
negative one sees the glass half empty, while the positive one sees it half full.
If you drink to excess, designate someone to drive you home. 


You probably need to  know the original to parse "Get your kicks on  sixtysix."

And you need math terminology for my favorite:  “Get your hands off my neck, cube root. "

Friday, April 22, 2016

More math...



Series VII: Operations : Puzzle 2, Algebra

 

Some word puzzle people disparage math, but really -- they shouldn't.

Some mathematical and logical expressions have made it into the common parlance, like 2b|¬(2b), 4F(r) + F(r), and Ni, 4N(i).

If you got all three of those, it's 1.4u

 Sometimes a little algebra is needed, like this:

The doctor said: “You are 12 if o=2 take 12 if s=6 Prince and call me in the morning.”
Richard is looking to trade his kingdom 20 if a=5 horse.
John Lennon wonders if you will still feed him when he’s 18 if t=3b if 7b+2=30.
40 if s=4 son wrote the poem “Idylls of the King.”

And a little more math is necessary for:

The car commercial encouraged us to “Get 36 if a=6 eel.”
The i2 sees the glass half empty, while the |-1| sees it half full.
If you drink 28 if x=7 and s=2, designate ∑ (1…2) drive you home. 


You probably need to  know the original to parse "Get your kicks on  9 if t=13.5x if 5x = 30."

And you need math terminology for my favorite:  “Get your hands off my neck,3. "

 

Solutions available Thursday,  April 28.