Coudal Partners have published yet another fiendish logic puzzle after their previous doozies such as Einstein’s fish and Which Porn Star Ate the Most Hot Dogs?
However I’m convinced that Let’s Do Lunch is missing some information as I’ve come up with four viable solutions.
The Set Up
Four movie actors are in a cafe, sitting together at a square table, like the one shown here with the seats numbered. They are discussing their most recent projects while waiting for their salads. Each has just returned from a different location where he or she was shooting a different type of film, one of which is a costume drama.
From the information provided can you figure out where each person sat, his or her full name, the location he or she had just returned from, and the type of movie each had shot?
The Details
1. York (who isn’t sitting in seat #1) shot a science fiction movie.
2. The person sitting in seat #2 didn’t just return from Tokyo.
3. Julia is in seat #3.
4. Hannah (who isn’t sitting in seat #4) is across from the person who just returned from Hawaii.
5. Marks is sitting next to the person who just returned from Spain.
6. Moon did not shoot an action thriller.
7. Glory and Robert are sitting next to each other; one of them is surnamed Smith and the other had just returned from Ireland.
8. Robert (who isn’t Moon) shot a romantic comedy.
My solutions
The words in bold are the ones I’ve managed to fix down as being the only possible solution but the rest are variable to some extent.
Seat 1, Glory Marks, action thriller, Ireland
Seat 2, Hannah York, science fiction, Spain
Seat 3, Julia Moon, costume drama, Tokyo
Seat 4, Robert Smith, romantic comedy, Hawaii
Seat 1, Glory Marks, action thriller, Ireland
Seat 2, Hannah Moon, costume drama, Spain
Seat 3, Julia York, science fiction, Tokyo
Seat 4, Robert Smith, romantic comedy, Hawaii
Seat 1, Robert Marks, romantic comedy, Ireland
Seat 2, Hannah York, science fiction, Spain
Seat 3, Julia Moon, costume drama, Tokyo
Seat 4, Glory Smith, action thriller, Hawaii
Seat 1, Robert Marks, romantic comedy, Ireland
Seat 2, Hannah Moon, costume drama, Spain
Seat 3, Julia York, science fiction, Tokyo
Seat 4, Glory Smith, action thriller, Hawaii
