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Clues From Talk About Boats

At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats. There were a total of eight boats, two in each color, red, green, blue and yellow. 

1. Each friend owned two boats. 

2. No friend had two boats of the same color.

3. Alan didn't have a yellow boat.

4. Brian didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.

5. One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat and another friend had a green boat and a blue boat. 

6. Charles had a yellow boat. 

7. Darren had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.

Can you work out which friend had which colored boats? 


Which friend had which colored boats?

Know here step by step process of finding owners! 

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Owners Of Boats


What's the task given? 

First let's rewrite all the clues here.

1. Each friend owned two boats. 

2. No friend had two boats of the same color.

3. Alan didn't have a yellow boat.

4. Brian didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.

5. One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat and another friend had a green boat and a blue boat. 

6. Charles had a yellow boat. 

7. Darren had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.

Let's make 2 set of 4 colors of boats. Below is the table with owners in row & color of boats in columns.  


Finding Owners Of Boats

Below are clues which giving clear idea of owner of particular colored boat.

3. Alan didn't have a yellow boat.

4. Brian didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.

6. Charles had a yellow boat.

7. Darren had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.


We will fill this table one by one as per clues given.

Finding Owners Of Boats

Now, consider the first part of this clue.

5. One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat.

Now Alan won't have this combination as he doesn't own yellow boat at all. The Brian already had green boat, so he too can't have this combination as in that case he would own 3 boats.

Let's assume Charles had this combination then other would have boats as below.

Finding Owners Of Boats

Corrupt Courier Service - Puzzle

Two friends Sachin & Rahul are living in two different towns. Sachin wanted to send few diamonds to Rahul but there is big problem. Both Sachin & Rahul have lot's of boxes which can be locked with locks & keys. Both have multiple locks. There is only 1 courier service which can ship those diamonds & there is no other way. Even worse is that workers at that courier service have bad habit of stealing the goods from packages. But one good thing is that they don't take efforts to break locks if boxes being shipped are locked. 

How Sachin should send diamonds to Rahul?

Corrupt Courier Service Stealing The Package Content

This is what Sachin should do? 


Dealing With Corrupt Courier Service


What was the situation? 

What should Sachin do is that send diamonds in box locked with his own lock & key. On receiving that box, Rahul should put his own lock on the box without disturbing lock placed by Sachin. With 2 locks, he should send that box again to Sachin. Now, Sachin should remove his lock with his key & keep lock placed by Rahul intact. Finally, he need to send back the box with Rahul's lock on it.

Now Rahul can unlock the box using key that he has to get diamonds.

In this way, in every journey there would be always lock (or 2 locks in journey of box from Rahul to Sachin) on the box. So workers won't get any chance to steal those diamonds.   

Sending stuffs via corrupt courier service!
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