Logic Puzzle
About March Break Activities
March Break came around and it was a winter wonderland with snow everywhere!
Five different kids (one is Anna) participated in an outdoor winter activity (one being
skiing), each on a different day of the week (Monday to Friday). Can you find which
kid did what activity and on what day? Read the clues below and put an “✗” to mark
off the boxes that don’t go together, and a “✓" when you find a match. One thing is
for sure, each kid was wearing the appropriate warm clothing and had a blast!
Clues
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
Activity Name
Friday
Thursday
Tuesday
Monday
Skating
Built
Snow fort
Tobogganing
Skiing Day
Day Wednesday
Snowshoeing
Jose did an activity that requires a big snowy hill, but Anna did not.
Suzie, who went snowshoeing, did her activity earlier in the week than Anna.
Brad participated in his activity on a day that starts with the letter that is
between S and U in the alphabet.
The kid who went skiing, who wasn’t Charlie, went on a day that has 6 letters.
The kid who went tobogganing went on Friday.
Anna needed to sharpen her skates for her activity.
Suzie did her activity on Tuesday.
Charlie
Anna
Suzie
Brad
Jose
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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Number is the clue number, and the ✗ is when we know two things
don’t go together, and the ✓ is when we know two things go together.
Answer:
Charlie went tobogganing on Friday
Anna went skating on Wednesday
Suzie when snowshoeing on Tuesday
Brad built a snow fort on Thursday
Jose went skiing on Monday Activity 5✗ 5x 5✗ 5✗ 5✗ 5✗ 5✓ Anna
1✗ 2✗ 1✗ 6✗ 6✓ 2✗ 5✗ 7✓ 7✗ 5✗ Suzie
2✗ 2✓ 2✗ 2✗ 2✗ 5✗ 7✓ 7✗ 7✗ 2✗ Brad
4✗ 2✗ 5✗ 6✓ 6✗ 3✗ 7✗ 3✗ 7✓ 3✗ Jose
4✓ 1✗ 4✗ 1✗ 1✗ 5✓ 4✗ 4✗ 4✗ 5✗ Monday
5✓ 5✗ 5✗ 5✗ 5✗ Tuesday
4✗ 7✓ 5✗ 7✗ 7✗ Wednesday
4✗ 7✗ 5✗ 6✗ 7✓ Thursday
4✗ 7✗ 5✗ 7✓ 7✗ Friday
5✗ 2✗ 5✓ 5✗ 5✗ Name
Friday
Skating
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Wednesday
5✓ Monday
2✗ Built
Snow fort
4✗ Snow
Shoeing
Charlie
Skiing Day
Day Tuesday
Tobogganing
How do we know?
1) Jose did an activity that requires a big snowy hill, but Anna did not.
a. So Jose did not go snowshoeing, skating, or built a snow fort.
b. Anna however, did not go skiing or tobogganing (they require big snowy hills)
2) Suzie, who went snowshoeing, did her activity earlier in the week than Anna.
a. Put a ✓ in the box for Suzie and snowshoeing, and therefore an ✗ for all the other
snowshoeing boxes with the other kids, and for all the other activities and Suzie
b. Suzie could not have done her activity Friday, because she did it earlier in the week
then Anna. Since we confirmed Suzie went snowshoeing, and that Suzie did not her
activity on Friday, then snowshoeing could not have occurred on Friday.
c. Anna could not have done her activity on Monday, because she did it later in the
week than Suzie.
3) Brad participated in his activity on a day that starts with the letter that is between S
and U in the alphabet.
a. That letter is of course, T. So Brad did his activity on either Tuesday or Thursday, so
we know it is not on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.
4) The kid who went skiing, who wasn’t Charlie, went on a day that has 6 letters.
a. Skiing happened on Monday or Friday, so we know it did not occur on Tuesday,
Wednesday, or Thursday.
b. Charlie didn’t go skiing, and since Brad did his activity on Tuesday or Thursday, and
skiing happened on Monday or Friday, Brad did not go skiing.
c. That only leaves Jose, so Jose went skiing!
d. Since skiing happened on Monday or Friday, then that means that Jose went skiing
on Monday or Friday.
5) The kid who went tobogganing went on Friday.
a. Since tobogganing happened on Friday, and we established in the last clue that
skiing happened on Monday or Friday, we now know that Jose went skiing on
Monday!
b. Brad did not do his activity on Friday, so he did not go tobogganing.
c. That leaves Charlie who went tobogganing on Friday!
6) Anna needed to sharpen her skates for her activity.
a. This means that Anna went skating.
b. After putting the ✗ for the boxes around Anna and skating, we see that Brad is left
and he built the snow fort.
c. From what we know before, the snow fort was not built on Wednesday.
7) Suzie did her activity on Tuesday.
a. This leaves Anna to have done her activity on Wednesday, and Brad did his activity
on Thursday.
b. Now we know who did what activity and on what day
c. VOILA! Solved!
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