BAKER STREET: a logic puzzle (all levels)
LOGIC PUZZLE: BAKER STREET (all levels)
There are 5 houses in Baker Street. For each house, you need to find out:
- The person’s name
- If that person is married or not
- What pet that person has
- Which book the person likes
- what drink the person prefers
Read the clues and complete the information in the diagram. (You can copy and complete the diagram on your English notebook too).
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Nº 14 |
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Nº 18 |
Nº 20 |
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CLUES:
- Miss Dudd owns a dog.
- The woman at Nº 12 has two pets: a tortoise and a rabbit.
- The dog’s owner drinks beer.
- Mrs. Evans is married.
- Mr. Abraham is a widower and his neighbor is divorced.
- The married woman reads thrillers.
- The woman who likes coffee does not have a pet.
- Nº 18 is the only house without a pet.
- There are 5 pets in Baker Street: a dog, a cat, a canary, a rabbit and a tortoise.
- The bachelor likes historical novels.
- Mr. Abraham can’t read, he watches TV.
- The widower and the spinster like beer.
- Mrs. Birt likes reading books by Charles Dickens.
- The whisky drinker owns a canary.
- The dog’s owner likes love stories and lives next door to the bachelor.
- Mr. Charles lives between Miss Dudd and Mrs. Birt.
- The married woman drinks wine.
- The pet at Nº 14 is a dog.
- Mr. Abraham lives at Nº. 20.
- The dog owner and the cat owner do not live next to each other.
VOCABULARY:
- To OWN: poseer, tener (owner: dueño/a). Miss Rich is a millionaire and she owns ten big houses in different cities. The red car owner is her mother.
- a NEIGHBOUR: vecino/a. My teacher of English lives next to me; we are neighbours.
- a BACHELOR: soltero. He isn’t married; he’s a bachelor.
- a SPINSTER: soltera (solterona). My old aunt Mary is a spinster; she never married.
- a WIDOWER: viudo. He’s so sad because his wife died. He’s a lonely widower now.
- a WIDOW: viuda. Grandfather died and now my grandma is a widow.
Share your answer with other peers or ask your teacher for the answers.