Comments on: Brain Game: B-sides

By: Potato Head

Potato Head — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:37:39 +0000

2MFW you do realise that the Blondie song is played just before the Beach Boys? This means that the Beach Boys must immediately follow Blondie, you can’t have Bangles in between.

By: 2MFW

2MFW — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:07:41 +0000

Wouldn’t a solution of Beatles, Blondi, Bangles, Beach Boys, and Bee Gees also work given the clue?

By: 2MFW

2MFW — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:06:39 +0000

Isn’t Beatles, Blondie, Bangles, Beach Boys, and Bee Gees also a possible solution? I don’t see how this violates any of the clues.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:50:48 +0000

Got it. This one was harder to work out shorthand, though. They all start with B. =P

Good one, Sandy.

By: Sandy Wood

Sandy Wood — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:06:55 +0000

Omegar & Caitlin, you placed the Bee Gees song as the third song after the Bangles, not the second. The text said “two songs before,” not that there were two songs between the ones mentioned.

“One song before” would be the previous song, so “two songs before” is the song before that.

Since it’s obviously confusing, however, I rephrased that clue in hopes of making it clearer. Thanks for letting me know!

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:55:47 +0000

I don’t see how the bangles being second contradicts number 1..

I had Beatles, Bangles, Blondie, Beach Boys, Bee Gees.

Blondie is still before Beach Boys, and there’s two songs between Bangles and Bee Gees, leaving Beatles at #1?

By: omegar

omegar — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:49:00 +0000

Confused.

The wording of clue 2 is that \The Bangles tune was played exactly two songs before the Bee Gees single.\

To me that says that there is two songs between the bangles and the bee gees song.

giving a different result (beatles, bangles, blondie, beach boys, bee gees)

Oh well.