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Put the ideas together
Solve a larger picnic puzzle using lists, pairs, and an ordering chain.
GUIDED WALKTHROUGHStep 1 of 19
Put the ideas together
Each person has a different drink and snack. These small examples show one idea at a time; some squares will stay empty.
| Drinks | Snacks | Arrival times | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tea | Coffee | Juice | Cocoa | Apple | Crackers | Brownie | Pear | 9:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | ||
| People | Ada | ||||||||||||
| Ben | |||||||||||||
| Cy | |||||||||||||
| Dee | |||||||||||||
| Arrival times | 9:00 | ||||||||||||
| 10:00 | |||||||||||||
| 11:00 | |||||||||||||
| 12:00 | |||||||||||||
| Snacks | Apple | ||||||||||||
| Crackers | |||||||||||||
| Brownie | |||||||||||||
| Pear | |||||||||||||
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The clues
- The four people are Ada, the person with coffee, the person with a brownie, and the person who arrived at 12:00.
- Of Ben and Cy, one brought coffee and the other brought a brownie.
- The person with coffee arrived one hour after Ada.
- Cy arrived sometime after Ben.
- Ada brought tea.
- The person with coffee brought crackers.
- Dee brought a pear.
- The person with juice arrived one hour before Dee.
- Cy did not bring coffee.
STEP 1
Read the groups and clues
Four people each have a drink, a snack, and an arrival time. Every listed item is used once. We will first put each clue's immediate information on the grid, then join the facts together.