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#1 Puzzles and Games » four-people-travel-solution » 2022-10-12 01:09:30

excelerator
Replies: 3

(Apologies if this is some kind of a repost or the wrong place or whatever - I did search for a thread on it before I started a new topic.)

https://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/four-people-travel-solution.html

I thought this was funny - the way it is written

Four people are traveling to different places on different types of transport.
Their names are: Rachel, John, Mr. Jones and Cindy.
They either went on train, car, plane or ship.
• Mr. Jones hates flying
• Cindy has to rent her vehicle
• John gets seasick
How did they each travel?

It took me a few minutes but then I came up with ONE answer (not 3 as in the solution).

Cindy rented the car, obvs.

Then I stalled, I had Mr. Jones NOT plane and I had John NOT ship (I didn't know there could be 3 answers).

But then I re-read "John gets seasick" as "John gets seasick" ... so he was on the ship!

Which then means the single answer is:

Cindy Car
John Ship
Mr. Jones Train
Rachel Plane.

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