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The Office Potluck
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Every year at Thanksgiving, the employees at Dunder-Mifflin hold a potluck. This year, the ladies of the office (including Meredith) brought in their favorite holiday foods, although some of their choices were not quite traditional. Can you determine from the clues below the food each employee brought, what color plate the food was served on, and how much of the food was left when the potluck was over?
1. Two of the ladies brought home empty plates, but Angela and the person who brought green beans weren't as lucky.
2. The person who brought the Taquitos used a paper plate.
3. The four employees are Kelly, the lady who brought the red plate, the lady who brought the Marshmallow Yams, and the person whose plate was 1/2 full after the party.
4. After the potluck, the brown plate had food left on it, but it wasn't pizza rolls.
5. Angela's plate was green. Phyllis's plate was not brown but was empty after the party.
6. The Marshmallow Yams were the least popular item of the potluck and had the most food remaining afterwards.
1. Two of the ladies brought home empty plates, but Angela and the person who brought green beans weren't as lucky.
2. The person who brought the Taquitos used a paper plate.
3. The four employees are Kelly, the lady who brought the red plate, the lady who brought the Marshmallow Yams, and the person whose plate was 1/2 full after the party.
4. After the potluck, the brown plate had food left on it, but it wasn't pizza rolls.
5. Angela's plate was green. Phyllis's plate was not brown but was empty after the party.
6. The Marshmallow Yams were the least popular item of the potluck and had the most food remaining afterwards.
Hint
Angela would never bring Taquitos or pizza rolls!Answer
Meredith brought green beans on a brown plate and had 1/2 left.Kelly brought Taquitos on a paper plate and the plate was empty.
Angela brought Marshmallow Yams on a green plate and had 3/4 left.
Phyllis brought pizza rolls on a red plate and the plate was empty.
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Interesting puzzle that deserves a higher rating.
A good teaser; I enjoyed it.
Thanks!
Cute and a bit of a challenge with the two empty choices.
Meredith was to remain blank in the final answer, right? Considering that there was no clue abt meredith at all?
Not true: All four ladies were mentioned in the clue about the four ladies!
This made me work, but was fun!
good i enjoyed it
I liked it, thanks!
Nov 26, 2008
I still don't see how you come up with the name Meredith????
It's the first name in the grid.
Nov 26, 2008
But what if you don't look at the grid and just try to figure out the teaser by reading it....it doesn't mention the fourth name....
Can't be solved without the grid - I also don't mention the pizza rolls.
Wait, no I just found it. I guess you do have a valid point.
Nov 26, 2008
Yeah my boss sent this to us today for fun at work and it didn't have the grid so we all were curious how to get that fourth name....
Nov 26, 2008
I like it though.
good teaser
fun teaser
Great job Duchess! I even got it right!
Yes, it is a logic GRID puzzle. So, you need the grid to solve it. Otherwise it would be simply a logic teaser. Good puzzle...thanks.
*no offence intended* HOW DARE YOU FORSAKE MARSHMALLOW YAMS TO BE UNPOPULAR?!!?!?!?
nice teaser though
nice teaser though
I actually like them myself!
Oct 04, 2010
I really like this one!
It was not perhaps the popularity of yams that was the determining factor, but the popularity of Angela, having watched the show. Bravo.
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