Re: Titanic Logic Puzzle

Very close, but allows multiple solutions.  Now if you stipulated that
Molly Brown and Archibald Gracie did not sleep on the same deck...

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:19:14 +1100, "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>This is my first attempt at creating a logic problem.  Could I have some
>feedback please?
>
>On 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the north
>Atlantic.
>There were almost 700 survivors.  This is the story of five of them.  You
>must deduce which cabin they slept in, which lifeboat they were rescued in,
>and which White Star Line employee they had dinner with during the voyage.
>
>1. Molly Brown was rescued in lifeboat 3, but did not sleep in cabin A14 or
>have dinner with Officer Wilde.
>2. Archibald Gracie sat at the captain's table for dinner.
>3. Jack Thayer had dinner with Harold Bride and was rescued in either
>lifeboat 3 or 4.
>4. The Astors slept in a cabin on B Deck but did not have dinner with Bruce
>Ismay.
>5. Whoever slept in cabin A12 was rescued in lifeboat 1, but did not have
>dinner       with Chief Officer Wilde.
>6. Cosmo Duff-Gordon did not have dinner with Thomas Andrews or Bruce Ismay.
>7. Whoever had dinner with Thomas Andrews did not sleep in B38 or get
>rescued in lifeboat 5.
>8. The person who DID get rescued in lifeboat 5 did not sleep in A10.
>
>Passengers                    WSL employees            Cabins    Lifeboats
>Molly Brown                Thomas Andrews          A10         1
>Jack Thayer                   Bruce Ismay                  A12         2
>Cosmo Duff-Gordon     Captain Edward Smith   A14        3
>Madeline Astor             Harold Bride                 B36        4
>Archibald Gracie          Chief Officer Wilde       B38        5
>
>

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