Try these logic puzzles

A Day at the Zoo

Last Saturday, Kerry and four other children arrived early at the zoo so they could be the first ones in line (each child has a different favorite type of animal that he or she was anxious to see). As they waited in line, each child received a complimentary Mylar balloon with a different design on it. Two of the children - Johan and Mario - are boys, and three - Kerry, Lani, and Naomi - are girls. Can you determine the order (first, second, third, fourth, or fifth) each child stood in line, each child's favorite type of animal (one child likes the chimpanzees), and the design (one is a rainbow) on the balloon each received?

1. The girl whose favorite animals are the tigers (who isn't Naomi) was third in line. Her balloon did not have hearts or stripes.
2. Johan (who was not last in line) was standing immediately behind a boy. Lani's favorite animals are neither the tigers nor the zebras.
3. Neither Lani's nor Naomi's balloon was either the one with hearts or the one with stripes. The balloon with stripes wasn't Mario's.
4. The one whose favorite animals are the zebras, who isn't the one who received the balloon with swirls, was fourth in line. The one who received the balloon with polka dots likes the lions the most. Johan isn't the one whose favorite animals are the giraffes.

Household Pets

Each of the five couples has a dog and a cat as pets. One first name is Rose, and one surname is Hatfield. From the information given below, can you identify the couples and name the pair of pets to be found in each household?

1. Kenneth's dog is Reggie and Jasmine's cat is Sultan.
2. When placed in alphabetical order, Ivy's name follows that of her cat, but precedes that of her husband.
3. Scamp and Claws belong to the same couple - the husband has a first name beginning with 'D'.
4. Marguerite Rushton is not married to Neville; neither these two nor Eamonn Barnard own Wally, who does not form part of the same household as Shandy.
5. Dennis and Laura are a couple. They do not own the dog called Yorky, nor does the couple named Marchant, whose cat is called Fluff, but whose dog is not Cleo.
6. Shandy belongs to the Savilles, but Sheba does not, nor is her owner Dickie.

 

 

Soapy Situations

The five married couples featured in the popular soap opera "All My Lives" are, as usual, all going through heartwrench and trauma. Can you match each husband and wife with their last name and the new turn of fate their lives have taken?

1. Burke is the man whose first wife, thought dead, has returned.
2. Janet (who isn't Mrs. Nolan) has just been beset by an evil twin sister she didn't know she had.
3. Mr. Langley is married to either Freda or Harriet, and the man with amnesia is married to the other (though he's not sure which).
4. Mr. Massey confided to his friend Eli that the new house he and his wife purchased is haunted by the ghost of the previous owner.
5. Neither Allen nor Eli is the father whose new baby was switched with someone else's at the hospital.
6. David's wife isn't Freda.
7. Ingrid isn't Mrs. Nolan.
8. Charles's last name is Kilgore.
9. Gloria O'Neal has no children.