Re: Brain Teaser...I need the extra credit
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does bownling = bowling?
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assuming it does,
answer in white:
<font color="white"> clark = druggist
jones = grocer
morgan = butcher
smith = policeman </font>
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I got the same. I guess it's out now in black text.
Butcher dosen't drive, so he must be one of M or S.
Police and grocer don't know each other, so possible police/grocer combos are CM, JS, and JM. MS is not a possible police/grocer combo since one of M or S must be the butcher.
The druggist must be one of C or J, as one of MS is a butcher and the other is a grocer or policeman.
If the druggist is J, then CM is the combo and M must be a policeman or butcher. M cannot be policeman as he would then make more money than J, and M cannot be a grocer as this would make C a policeman, and the policeman does not live near the druggist. Therefore the druggist must not be J: C is the druggist.
J cannot be the policeman as the policeman does not live near the druggist. Therefore one of M or S is the butcher, and one is the policeman. This means that J must be the grocer..
M can now not be the policeman, as he would make more money than J. Therefore M is the grocer
The only one remaining: S is the policeman
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