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So I found a magazine of puzzles lying around the house.  It's the May 2010 edition from Dell Variety Puzzles (must have bought it when we were moving here).

Anyway, I was working on logic puzzle #5.  I'm pretty good at logic puzzles and this one didn't look all that hard once I filled in the initial clues (the ones that were straight forward).  It took three tries though to finish it thanks to people constantly interrupting me.

I was so proud to get all the little dots to line up right.  So I flip to the back to check my answer only to find it's completely wrong.  Huh.

So I erase it and start again.  I get it finished and check and it's still completely wrong.  So, since the copy in the magazine was ruined, I made another graph on paper and started filling it in again being very careful.  Halfway through I check my answer and it's completely wrong.

By this point I'm like WTF, there is no way I'm getting all that wrong when I followed the clues exactly as they were written.  So I really examine their summary of the answer.  And right off the bat THEY are WRONG.

Clue #8 says: Ms Wold wasn't the lady who invested $3000 in the Liberty Fund.

But in their solution they have right off the bat: Betty WOLD, LIBERTY FUND, $3000, Wednesday.

In their more detailed explanation it even states that Wold did not choose the Liberty Fund based on clue 8 and yet by the end of the explanation she was somehow linked to the Liberty Fund.  Oy.  Make up your frickin' mind.

So now I have no idea if my solution is correct or not.  I've been known to mess up the graph or misinterpret a clue and get things screwed up and have to start over so it's possible that my answer isn't right.

It's obvious, though, that their answer is completely wrong.  I hate sloppy work.
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