Re: Critical thinking puzzle

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PS: using Google to look for Norwegian and camel and juice and Kool, I found
that this seems to be a variant of a "standard" programming problem called the
Zebra Puzzle. That puzzle, which specifies a different set of rules, has only
one solution.

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:00:51 -0600, Myrna Larson
<anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Since posting my original message, I wrote a macro to do it, and came up with
>the same 2 solutions I had discovered manually (which was reassuring!). Of
>course the macro found the solutions in less than 1 second (not counting
>programming time) vs an hour or so that I spent doing it the "old fashioned"
>way.
>
>Now that we've spent all of this time on it, the OP will probably come back
>and tell us that one or more of the other conditions were stated incorrectly
>:(. But we have the macros written, so making a change will be trivial.
>
>Actually, I expect the problem is supposed to have only one solution, which
>means there is an error somewhere in the "specs".
>
>Has the OP been heard from since, or are we just talking to ourselves?
>
>On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:17:56 -0500, "Dana DeLouis" <delouis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>> OTOH, if I interpret it to mean there are ONE OR MORE houses between the
>>> giraffe and elephant, and one of them is blue, I also came up with 2
>>> solutions.
>>
>>Ahhh! Thank you Myrna. You are absolutely correct.
>>If I change that line in my program, I also get two solutions.
>>Thanks. :>)
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