I think it's easy but my coworker says it's impossible

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"Five students enjoy different hobbies. Use the clues to find their last name, their hobby, and their club activity. 1. Yukiko's friend, Ms. Nakagawa, enjoys Home Ec Club. 2. Satoshi Ueno loves baseball as much as Kimie likes shopping, but Kimie hates tea ceremony. 3. Ms. Sugimoto plays video games every day. Satoshi didn’t go to Brass Band Club yesterday. 4. Megan loves Computer Club but doesn’t like cooking. 5. Ms. Tanaka is in Tea Ceremony Club and enjoys fishing. 6. Tomorrow Yukiko will study with Ms. Sugimoto after school. "

First names are Yukiko, Satoshi, Kimie, Megan, and Yuusuke.
Last names are Nakagawa, Nakamura, Sugimoto, Tanaka, Ueno
Hobbies are baseball, cooking, fishing, shopping, video games
Clubs are art, brass band, computer, home ec, tea ceremony


[Edited on April 12, 2009 at 8:04 PM. Reason : might help if I gave you all the info lol]

4/12/2009 7:59:05 PM

I might attempt it if they didn't all have Asian names

4/12/2009 8:00:16 PM

tl;dr

4/12/2009 8:01:16 PM

have you solved it? or do you just "think" it's easy?

4/12/2009 8:02:17 PM

Yeah I solved it. It didn't take too long.

4/12/2009 8:03:05 PM

what the fuck i'm not doing this shit. who do you think i am

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

4/12/2009 8:04:19 PM

i did this shit in elementary school ag class

4/12/2009 8:05:49 PM

^ Yeah me too. I guess she's never done stuff like this before.

4/12/2009 8:06:17 PM

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"i did this shit in elementary school ag class"

4/12/2009 8:11:35 PM

i too took ag

4/12/2009 8:12:38 PM

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"Yukiko, Satoshi, Kimie, Megan, and Yuusuke."

LOL at the random Western name

4/12/2009 8:16:07 PM

i, too, remember this from ag class

if i recall it got me a gold star on the puzzle poster board

4/12/2009 8:16:12 PM

^^ I did that just to mess with my students

4/12/2009 8:19:58 PM

yukiko tanaka, fishing, tea ceremony
satoshi ueno, baseball, brass band
kimie nakamura, shopping, art
megan sugimoto, video games, comp club
yuusake nakagawa, cooking, home ec

4/12/2009 8:22:55 PM

what the fuck i'm not doing this shit. who do you think i am

AND

i did this shit as a fetus embryo zygote

4/12/2009 8:23:31 PM

this is like a basic LSAT puzzle

4/12/2009 8:25:23 PM

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"yukiko tanaka, fishing, tea ceremony satoshi ueno, baseball, brass band kimie nakamura, shopping, art megan sugimoto, video games, comp club yuusake nakagawa, cooking, home ec"

Close. But Yusuke is a boy's name (I probably should have told you guys the genders of the names oops).

4/12/2009 8:31:07 PM

ya that would have helped, i guessed on the last two i had left, close enough

4/12/2009 8:33:17 PM

yukiko tanaka, fishing, tea ceremony
satoshi ueno, baseball, brass band
kimie nakagawa, shopping, home ec
megan sugimoto, video games, comp club
yuusake nakamura, cooking, art

4/12/2009 8:36:24 PM

saps852 is teh winnar!

4/12/2009 8:38:51 PM

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"But Yusuke is a boy's name"

So? I object to this subscription to strict gender roles... boys can do home economics too!!!

4/12/2009 8:50:59 PM

4/12/2009 8:54:48 PM

give us another one. i love this type of puzzle, but didn't get a chance to solve this one.

4/12/2009 8:56:43 PM

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"Big Business Strolled 'em all 8522 Posts user info edit post what the fuck i'm not doing this shit. who do you think i am I'm Big Business and i approved this message. 4/12/2009 8:04:19 PM"

4/12/2009 8:57:46 PM

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"boys can do home economics too!!!"

haha, I actually said to one of my coworkers the other day that it seemed like an easy way for a Japanese boy to pick up chicks would be to join the home ec club since it's all girls who also tend to be the easy girls for some reason.

4/12/2009 8:57:56 PM

Five parents pick-up their children at the Parkway Elementary School every Tuesday to bring the kids to their afterschool activity. Colleen and the four other children all attended a different afterschool activity and their parents always arrive at different times (between 3:00 pm and 3:30 pm). Determine each child's full name, the first name of the parent picking them up (all the parents' last names are the same as their child's), the time each was picked up, and the activity each child is being brought to.

1. Margie's best friend's mother, Mrs. Dobson, arrived before Cathy came to pick up her son. Mrs. Walsh picked up her daughter for fencing.
2. Josh Steinway loved football as much as Donno liked chess, and they both liked being the last two to be picked up.
3. David Holden picked up his daughter for her hiking as soon as he could, but Lynne was always there before he was.
4. Margie liked being the first one picked up but she didn't take ballet or hiking.
5. Lynne's daughter was not Margie.
6. In order of their departure from school: Ann, the girl who took ballet, Mary Holden, the boy who took football, and Capri Johnson.

4/12/2009 8:59:35 PM

oh shit

4/12/2009 9:00:36 PM

3:00 - Margie Walsh - Ann - fencing
3:10 - Colleen Dobson - Lynne - ballet
3:20 - Mary Holden - David - hiking
3:25 - Josh Steinway - Cathy - football
3:30 - Donno Johnson - Capri - chess

4/12/2009 9:26:35 PM

^ Very nice

4/12/2009 9:32:03 PM

more, please?

[Edited on April 12, 2009 at 9:35 PM. Reason : .]

4/12/2009 9:35:08 PM

4/12/2009 9:36:43 PM

Jake Farmer woke up one morning to pandemonium in his barnyard. The gate had been left open and the animals had wandered out during the night. When he looked out the window, he could see the chickens and the sheep. By the time he got downstairs he could see the goats, too. But he had to hunt for the cows and the horses. After an hour of running around, Jake finally got all his animals back in their pens. Using the clues below, determine how many of each animal the farmer had to find, what kind of mischief each type of animal got into, and how long it took the farmer to return each group of animals to their pens.

1. The animals running loose on the neighbor’s lawn were not the goats.
2. The twelve chickens, who were not eating Jake’s vegetable garden, took the most time to return to their pen.
3. Jake had five of one type of animal; he had an even number of all the other animals.
4. The animals he had the least number of were the ones found in the grain room. The animals he had the most of took him twenty minutes to catch.
5. The animals Jake had only two of took five minutes to catch while the animals he had six of took twice as long to catch.
6. Jake had six more chickens than goats but two more goats than sheep.
7. It took five minutes more to catch the horses than it took to catch the animals in the hay field but getting the horses took five minutes less than collecting the animals scattered around the barnyard.
8. It took Jake the same amount of time to collect the four animals in the hay field as it did to collect the goats.

4/12/2009 9:38:24 PM

12 chickens - barnyard - 20 min
4 sheep - hay field - 10 min
6 goats - veg. garden - 10 min
2 cows - grain room - 5 min
5 horses - neighbor's lawn - 15 min

4/12/2009 10:06:42 PM

Jake Bennett, owner of the Circle K dude ranch, had a problem. He had five guests coming next week who all wanted to ride. Unfortunately, he only had four horses available. Each of the guests wanted to spend most of their five day stay riding. And to make matters worse, they preferred riding the same horse all week! After scratching his head almost bald, he finally came up with a plan that allowed each guest to ride on four days and on the same horse for at least two of the days. Using the grid and clues below, determine the full name of each guest, on which days each guest rode (each guest rode on four out of five days), and on which horses (the four horses were ridden every day).

1. Each horse was ridden by three different people. Brenda, who didn't ride Paint, rode the same horse for three days and a different one on Monday.
2. On Wednesday, the person whose last name is Wish rode Sunny, Mr. Grant rode Paint, Mary rode Rosie, and Flip was ridden by the person whose last name was Bend.
3. The horse, Paint, was ridden twice in a row by both Fred, who only rode two horses, and the one who rode Flip on Friday.
4. Ms. Nash and Stuart each rode Sunny on one day. Tom rode three different horses.
5. On Tuesday, Brenda didn't ride, Mr. Grant rode Flip, Mary rode on the same horse that she rode for the rest of the week, Stuart Bend rode, and Tom rode Paint.
6. Brenda, the woman who rode Sunny on Monday, and Mr. Flight all rode Rosie. Mary didn't ride on Thursday.

4/12/2009 10:09:31 PM

4/12/2009 10:47:50 PM

haha you're good

Five friends pooled their resources one day and pieced a CD together from songs they had written. They called their band Frozen Cabbage and ended up playing a number of live gigs at local events. Determine the full name of each band member, the instrument (or mixing console) each played, the brand of equipment each used, plus each member's favorite magazine.

1. Steve wasn't the sound engineer. One of the women enjoyed EQ magazine.
2. Angie and Steve didn't like Recording magazine. The bass player used Ibanez equipment.
3. Mr. Magnus didn't use Mackie equipment. Mark's last name wasn't Hydal and he didn't play keyboard.
4. The sound engineer, whose last name wasn't Engel, enjoyed reading Mix magazine. The person who used Yamaha drums wasn't Robert, but their last name is Hydal.
5. The five band members (in no particular order) were: Mark Scott, the female bass player, the person who read Musician, the one who used Peavey equipment, and Robert.
6. Shelley's last name was not Hydal or McArthur and she didn't use Roland equipment. Mackie only developed equipment for live sound and recording NOT musical instruments.
7. Steve McArthur was the guitarist.

4/12/2009 10:48:59 PM

Fuck ibanez.

My fucking RG550 10th annerversary is a peice of shit, and i've upgraded/modded so much shit on there.

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

4/12/2009 10:49:34 PM

this will have to be my last one for tonight....

i'm on it.

4/12/2009 10:50:07 PM

Angie Hydal - Yahama drums - Musician mag.
Mark Scott - Mackie sound - Mix mag.
Robert Magnus - Roland keyboard - Recording mag.
Shelley Engel - Ibanez bass - EQ mag.
Steve McArthur - Peavey guitar - Home Recording mag.

4/12/2009 11:07:28 PM