bradbury breakfast
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stormsewerI spent all day working on this stupid brainteaser. I would have gotten it a lot faster back in the day, but I'm out of practice working this kind of logic puzzle.
Mrs. Bradbury has five delightful children: 3 girls (Madison, Paige, and Reed)) and 2 boys (Charlie and Billy). The children are all different ages (2,4,5,7,9). Mrs. Bradbury went to the grocery store and purchase 5 boxes of cereal: Apple Jacks, Pops, Oh's, Sugar Squares, and Fruit Flakes. Her children each had breakfast at different times the next morning (5:15, 6:45, 7:00, 8:15, and 9:30) [and they each had ate a different cereal for breakfast]. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to figure out how old each child is, which cereal they ate, and what time they woke up to eat breakfast. Parameters:
1. Billy doesn't like to get up too early. [As it turns out, for purposes of ensuring only one possible solution, "too early" needs to be defined as "before 7:00."]
2. Sugar Squares can only be eaten by kids over 6 years old.
3. Paige woke up and found that the Pops and Fruit Flakes were gone.
4. Charlie's younger sister got up at 5:15.
5. Billy's age and the time he got up contain the same number.
6. Two girls ate their cereal at a quarter after an hour.
7. At 7:00 a 4 year old ate a bowl of Oh's cereal.
8. Reed is older than her sister Madison, but younger than her brother Charlie.
9. The oldest child slept in the longest, and the youngest child got up the earliest.
10. The middle child got up before 7 and enjoyed a bowl of Pops.
11. The eldest child loves to eat his Apple Jacks without milk. [Take that to mean "he ate Apple Jacks."]
Mrs. Bradbury has five delightful children: 3 girls (Madison, Paige, and Reed)) and 2 boys (Charlie and Billy). The children are all different ages (2,4,5,7,9). Mrs. Bradbury went to the grocery store and purchase 5 boxes of cereal: Apple Jacks, Pops, Oh's, Sugar Squares, and Fruit Flakes. Her children each had breakfast at different times the next morning (5:15, 6:45, 7:00, 8:15, and 9:30) [and they each had ate a different cereal for breakfast]. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to figure out how old each child is, which cereal they ate, and what time they woke up to eat breakfast. Parameters:
1. Billy doesn't like to get up too early. [As it turns out, for purposes of ensuring only one possible solution, "too early" needs to be defined as "before 7:00."]
2. Sugar Squares can only be eaten by kids over 6 years old.
3. Paige woke up and found that the Pops and Fruit Flakes were gone.
4. Charlie's younger sister got up at 5:15.
5. Billy's age and the time he got up contain the same number.
6. Two girls ate their cereal at a quarter after an hour.
7. At 7:00 a 4 year old ate a bowl of Oh's cereal.
8. Reed is older than her sister Madison, but younger than her brother Charlie.
9. The oldest child slept in the longest, and the youngest child got up the earliest.
10. The middle child got up before 7 and enjoyed a bowl of Pops.
11. The eldest child loves to eat his Apple Jacks without milk. [Take that to mean "he ate Apple Jacks."]
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