- Brain Teaser by Mayah
4 y
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AARP BRAINTEASER:
Madame Z Tells All: Madame Zelda saw three clients and used different methods---crystal ball, palm reading, and tarot---to tell each the height of a stranger she'd meet.
Clues:
1) The clients---Abby, Betsy, and Chloe---didn't visit Madame Zelda in that order.
2) Madame Z told the second client that she would meet a tall stranger.
3) Madame Z read the first client's palm.
4) Chloe went in after the tarot cards were read.
5) The crystal ball told Madame Z that the client would meet a short stranger.
Puzzle Question: Who, according to Madame Zelda, is going to meet an average height stranger?
See answer and how to work the
puzzle in "comments" below.
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- Re: Brain Teaser by Mayah
4 y
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Answer to the Question "Who, according to Madame Zelda, is going to meet an average height stranger?" BETSY
how did I arrive at that answer?
see below
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- Re: Brain Teaser SOLUTION by Mayah
4 y
2,538 1 of 1 (100%) 3
Brain Teaser Solution:
SOLUTION:
Make a chart with three columns and three rows on a piece of paper: the columns represent the ORDER the three clients met with Madame Z;
the three rows indicate the METHOD of fortune telling, the HEIGHT of the stranger, and the NAME of each client:
client:----#1--------#2--------#3
method:
height:
name:
We know the following from clues 2 and 3: "Madame Z told the second client that she would meet a tall stranger; Madame read the first client's palm."
client:----#1--------#2--------#3
method: -palm
height: -----------tall
name:
From Clue #4, "Chloe went in after the tarot cards were read": here we use up a few brain cells to figure out that Chloe could not be client #1 because she "went in after" so she had to be either client #2 or #3. However, she went in after the tarot cards were read...since client #1 had her palm read, then the tarot card reading must be client #2...if tarot card reading was client #3, there would be no spot for Chloe to "went in after". Therefore tarot was for client #2, and Chloe, who "went in after the tarot cards were read", was client #3.
Further, there is only one method left for Chloe, and that is the crystal ball reading:
client:------#1--------#2--------#3
method: ---palm ---tarot ---ball
height:---------------tall
name:----------------------------Chloe
From clue #1, "The clients---Abby, Betsy, and Chloe---didn't visit Madame Zelda in that order." Given that Chloe is client #3, Abby and Betsy must be "switched" so that Betsy is client #1 and Abby is client #2:
client:----#1--------#2--------#3
method: --palm --tarot --ball
height:--------------tall
name: --Betsy --Abby --Chloe
From the chart, we already see that Client #2, Abby, has the tarot card reading and is told she'll meet a tall stranger.
From clue #5, "The crystal ball told Madame Z that the client would meet a short stranger." Add this to the chart, and we see that Client #3, Chloe, has the crystal ball reading and is told she'll meet a short stranger.
As to the question, "Who, according to Madame Zelda, is going to meet an average height stranger?" Client #1, Betsy, with the palm reading, is the only client left with a space open on the chart to meet an "average height stranger":
client:------#1----------#2----------#3
method: ----palm ----tarot ----ball
height: -----average ----tall ----short
name: ----Betsy ----Abby ----Chloe
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