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Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
  • 60 Zebra Puzzles (PDFs)
  • 30 medium + 15 hard + 15 very hard puzzles
  • Answers included

Angel Investors Zebra Puzzle

Five angel investors are side by side talking about their last investments. Each one lives in a city, made an investment last month and is interested in specific companies. Who is interested in biotech companies?

Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
  • 60 Zebra Puzzles (PDFs)
  • 30 medium + 15 hard + 15 very hard puzzles
  • Answers included
 
  • Tie
  • Name
  • Investment
  • Area
  • City
  • Age
Investor #1 #1
Investor #2 #2
Investor #3 #3
Investor #4 #4
Investor #5 #5
  • The investor who lives in San Francisco is somewhere between the investor who invested $5 million last month and the investor who lives in Los Angeles, in that order.
  • At the fourth position is the investor interested in Healthcare companies.
  • The investor who invested $3 million last month is somewhere between the investor wearing the Red tie and the investor who invested $2 million last month, in that order.
  • At the fifth position is the investor interested in Internet companies.
  • The investor wearing the Red tie is somewhere to the left of the investor interested in Healthcare companies.
  • The investor that lives in Miami is next to the investor interested in Clean tech companies.
  • The investor wearing the Red tie is somewhere between the investor who invested $5 million last month and the investor wearing the Black tie, in that order.
  • At one of the ends is the investor who did a $4 million investment last month.
  • Matt is next to the 45-year-old man.
  • Pierre is somewhere to the right of the investor wearing the Blue tie.
  • The 40-year-old man is next to the investor interested in Healthcare companies.
  • The man wearing the Red tie is somewhere between the man wearing the Green tie and the youngest man, in that order.
  • The investor wearing the Red tie is next to the investor who lives in Atlanta.
  • Dave is exactly to the left of the 30-year-old man.
  • The investor interested in Biotech companies is next to the investor who lives in Atlanta.
  • The 35-year-old man is somewhere between Adam and the investor interested in Software companies, in that order.
  • The 45-year-old investor is exactly to the right of the investor that invested $2 million last month.
  • The investor wearing the blue tie is interested in Software companies.
  • The 40-year-old man is next to the man wearing the Purple tie.
  • At the first position is the investor who lives in New York.

How to play

  • Start by reading all the clues;
  • Find all the "basic" clues and mark them. The most basic clue is the one that states that something is in a determined house/position. Example:
    • The German lives in house three.
  • Sometimes you are going to need to deduce some information using two or more clues;
  • All the clues must be used;
  • The game ends when all the clues are correctly checked and everything is filled.

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