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Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
  • 60 Zebra Puzzles (PDFs)
  • 30 medium + 15 hard + 15 very hard puzzles
  • Answers included

Secondhand Shopping Zebra Puzzle

Five women are standing together, discussing the clothes they recently purchased from a thrift store. Each woman has a purse in a different color, a distinct name, bought a specific clothing item from a particular decade, and paid a different price. Figure out which clothes each woman bought by using the provided clues.

Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
  • 60 Zebra Puzzles (PDFs)
  • 30 medium + 15 hard + 15 very hard puzzles
  • Answers included
 
  • Purse
  • Name
  • Clothing
  • Decade
  • Price
Customer #1 #1
Customer #2 #2
Customer #3 #3
Customer #4 #4
Customer #5 #5
  • The customer that spent $12 is at the middle position.
  • The customer who bought clothes from the 1910s spent $18.
  • The woman with a Pink purse is next to the woman who bought a Top.
  • The woman who bought stuff of the 1910s is somewhere between the woman who bought clothing from the 1940s and the woman who bought clothes from the 2000s, in that order.
  • Carol is next to the woman who bought clothes from the 2010s.
  • The woman who bought clothes from the 1920s is immediately after the woman who bought stuff from the 2000s.
  • The customer who bought clothes from the 2000s spent $8.
  • Elizabeth bought Trousers.
  • The customer who bought Trousers is at the second position.
  • The customer with a Purple purse is next to the woman who spent $14.
  • Yvonne owns a White purse.
  • The Top was $12.
  • The customer who spent $8 is immediately after Wendy.
  • The customer who bought the Coat payed $8.
  • The woman with a Blue purse is somewhere between Elizabeth and the woman with a Green purse, in that order.
  • The woman with a Pink purse is somewhere to the left of Carol.
  • The woman with a Purple purse is somewhere to the left of the woman who spent $14.
  • The woman owning the Pink purse is next to Wendy.
  • The woman owning a Pink purse is immediately after the one who bought a Dress.
  • The woman who bought clothes from the 1940s is next to the woman with a Pink purse.

How to play

  • The best way to start is reading all the clues and marking the most basic ones (example: The Brazilian lives in the second house.);
  • Now, it is possible that other types of clues are available to be used (example: The person who drinks Water is exactly to the left of the Brazilian.);
  • After doing the last step several times, you will have to use logic to deduce information and proceed with the resolution;
  • All the clues must be used;
  • The game ends when all the clues are correctly checked and everything is filled.

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