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Carry facts through a pair
Use shared information before you know the individual pairings.
Deduction: Transitive relationships (unaligned pair)
GUIDED WALKTHROUGHStep 1 of 3
Carry facts through a pair
Each person has a different drink and snack. These small examples show one idea at a time; some squares will stay empty.
| Drinks | Snacks | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tea | Coffee | Juice | Cocoa | Apple | Crackers | Brownie | Pear | ||
| People | Ada | ||||||||
| Ben | |||||||||
| Cy | |||||||||
| Dee | |||||||||
| Snacks | Apple | ||||||||
| Crackers | |||||||||
| Brownie | |||||||||
| Pear | |||||||||
Look here This step✓ Match× Not a match
The clues
- Of Ada and Ben, one brought tea and the other brought crackers.
- The tea person did not bring a pear.
STEP 1
Keep the pair unresolved
Ada and Ben are the tea person and the crackers person, in some order. Tea and crackers belong to different people.