bad logic puzzle is bad
6 May 2012 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennickelsSo 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.
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.
