Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Sink o’ de Mayo
by Sandy Wood - May 5, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Early this morning, BAM Plumbing won a contract to install a new bathroom – a sink, bath, and toilet – for a house under renovation on Elm Street. Due to scheduling conflicts, plumbers Arnie, Barney, and Marny can’t do their individual installation jobs today, however, so they’ve scheduled them for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Based on the following three clues, can you determine which triplet installed which fixture on which day of the week? Good luck!

1. Neither Barney’s job nor the toilet installation were done on Thursday.

2. Marny, who didn’t install the tub, took Friday off.

3. Arnie installed the sink.

Here is the SOLUTION.
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Comments (7)

  1. Sweet, 1 cup of coffee and no paper. Nice little mental workout to start the day.

    posted by Kev in Ga on 5-5-2009 at 8:05 am

  2. Any reason why the following doesn’t fit with the clues?

    Barney – Toilet – Wednesday
    Marny – Bath – Thursday
    Arnie – Sink – Friday

    posted by Knobber on 5-5-2009 at 10:28 am

  3. Knobber, clue 2 says Marny didn’t install the (bath)tub.

    posted by Jon on 5-5-2009 at 10:36 am

  4. I am shocked, shocked I say that you could get THREE plumbers to show up!

    posted by Miss Cellania on 5-5-2009 at 11:06 am

  5. Heh heh… good point, Miss C.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 5-5-2009 at 11:13 am

  6. Ack! I jotted this down and used S, B T for (S)ink, (B)ath and (T)oilet. I couldn’t figure out why I kept getting a fallacy! The (T)ub reference confused me!

    posted by Greta on 5-5-2009 at 2:56 pm

  7. I got al ittle confused at first by the tub reference too, but after some distraction I got it right.

    reCaptcha 28 1/8 rameses

    posted by Roberto on 5-7-2009 at 5:55 pm

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