Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Four Cars, No Waiting
by Sandy Wood - December 5, 2008 - 7:30 AM

SOLUTION:

The first car was the burgundy Toyota, followed by the yellow Datsun, the beige Volkswagen, and the red Isuzu.

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Comments (19)
  1. Yes the Yellow “Z” was awesome..
    Memory served me well so I’m not sure how easy this one actually is. But I actually thought the Burgandy one was Green. It may have been the cloud of smoke I was looking through :]

  2. i love these puzzles. keep em coming!

  3. That was good, and i enjoyed it, thank you. I am glad i got it this early…=>

  4. These puzzles are awesome (as some of us still insist on saying).

  5. I agree w/Diana, these puzzle are still “awesome” which we STILL use today.

  6. “fly swatter…” HA! That’s a good one!

  7. I feel like such a fool. it’s been so long since I’ve done these puzzles that I don’t remember how to construct the grid for a 4x4x4 :(

  8. There was a green one, Kev – my very first car, in fact – but I didn’t include it in the mix because it was also a Datsun. And because I barely owned it long enough to have it totaled. :)

  9. way too easy!!! even I got that and I owned a YELLOW Dodge Colt…

  10. Great job! That was cool. copax (and others) – how do you do your grids? I just did the Y-axis as the manufacturers and the X-axis with 16 categories (Beige #1, Beige #2, #3, #4; Burgundry #1, #2, etc.)

  11. Yay! I did it! God, I haven’t done those since middle school. used to do them everyday.

    @Josh I found this site (pages.prodigy.net/spencejk/grids.html) go down to the bottom and click on the 4×3, 4×4 section.

    Use the 4×3 grid (3 categories, 4 variables per category). I did Colors and then Order down the Y axis, and Manufacturer and then Order across the X axis.

    But your way works too, this is just how I remember being taught how to do them.

  12. Love it!! A good logic puzzle to start my brain on a Friday. Thanks!!

  13. Agreed – great puzzle!

    I did the standard tiered grid (3 adjacent , but as soon as the models and orders were nailed down, I redrew the it as a single 4×4 grid with models/order along one axis and colors along the other.

    When the puzzles make positive statements (e.g. Red is last) and not solely negative statements (e.g. Isuzu is not beige), you can actually make “puzzle pieces” out of the clues and solve the puzzle by pasting the pieces into a single grid. Anyone else use this technique? Example available upon request.

  14. I absolutely LOVE logic puzzles. I could spend hours solving these things.

    For those that wonder, I set it up like this (hope this translates well when it posts):
    Dats Izu Toyo Voks | #1 #2 #3 #4 |
    —————————————-
    Beige
    Burg
    Red
    Yellow
    ——-
    #1
    #2
    #3
    #4
    ——-

  15. Thanks for another fun logic problem!

  16. fun way to finish off friday, thanks!

  17. Thanks! Love these awesome puzzles. :)

    (People don’t say ‘awesome’ anymore….?)

  18. Love it!! A good logic puzzle to start my brain on a Friday. Thanks!!

  19. I agree w/Diana, these puzzle are still “awesome” which we STILL use today.

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