Wayne Williams

Amusing bit of fluff. Plenty of laughs, although you'll probably take umbrage, like I did, at some of the things that the authors class as "crap. " A couple of hours of extra-light reading, then you'll toss it aside and likely never think of it again.

This book and its prequel, Quizzles, are collections of logical deduction puzzles, an example of which is given below. Included is a clever graphical system which can be used to help in solving them. The book contains 38 problems of varying difficulty, all of them less-complicated than this example:
The question is, based on the following clues who owns the zebra?
There are five houses.
Each house has its own unique color.
All house owners are of different nationalities.
They all have different show more pets.
They all drink different drinks.
They all smoke different cigarettes.
The Englishman lives in the red house.
The Swede has a dog.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left side of the white house.
In the green house they drink coffee.
The man who smokes Pall Mall has birds.
In the yellow house they smoke Dunhill.
In the middle house they drink milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend, lives in the house next to the house with cats.
In the house next to the house where they have a horse, the smoke Dunhill.
The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
They drink water in the house next to the house where they smoke Blend.
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