Saturday, 22 December 2012

Four People Travel Puzzle - Solution


The Puzzle:

Four people are traveling to different places on different types of transport.

Their names are: Rachel, John, Mr. Jones and Cindy.

They either went on train, car, plane or ship.

* Mr. Jones hates flying
* Cindy has to rent her vehicle
* John gets seasick

Our Solution:

There are 3 possibilities:

Cindy: car
Mr. Jones: train
John: plane
Rachel: ship

Cindy: car
Mr. Jones: ship
John: plane
Rachel: train

Cindy: car
Mr. Jones: ship
John: train
Rachel: plane

Four Adventurers and a Small Canoe - Solution

The Puzzle: Four adventurers (Alex, Brook, Chris and Dusty) need to cross a river in a small canoe.

The canoe can only carry 100kg.

Alex weighs 90kg, Brook weighs 80kg, Chris weighs 60kg and Dusty weighs 40 kg, and they have 20kg of supplies.

How do they get across?

The Solution . . .

Chris and Dusty row across, Dusty returns.
Alex rows over, and Chris returns.
Chris and Dusty row across again, Dusty returns.
Brook rows across with the Supplies, and Chris returns.
Chris and Dusty row across again for the last time.