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?

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