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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

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Five women are side by side talking about their plans to travel after the Covid-19 pandemic. Each one wants to visit a relative in a different country. Figure out who is going to travel for 10 days.

Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
Print-At-Home Zebra Puzzles
  • 60 Zebra Puzzles (PDFs)
  • 30 medium + 15 hard + 15 very hard puzzles
  • Answers included
 
  • Shirt
  • Name
  • Destination
  • Visit
  • Duration
  • Age
Woman #1 #1
Woman #2 #2
Woman #3 #3
Woman #4 #4
Woman #5 #5
  • The woman wearing the Blue shirt is going to travel to Morocco.
  • The oldest woman is going to travel for 15 days.
  • The 35-year-old woman is exactly to the left of the woman that is going to visit her Nephew.
  • The 45-year-old woman is somewhere to the right of the woman wearing the Green shirt.
  • The 50-year-old woman is at the third position.
  • The woman wearing the Green shirt is somewhere to the left of the woman traveling for 5 days.
  • At the fifth position is the woman who is going to visit her Uncle.
  • Jill is next to the woman that is going to the Outback.
  • The woman traveling for 20 days is exactly to the right of the 35-year-old woman.
  • The woman wearing the White shirt is somewhere between the woman wearing the Pink shirt and the woman wearing the Red shirt, in that order.
  • The woman who is going to travel to Santiago is exactly to the left of the 45-year-old woman.
  • The 40-year-old woman is somewhere to the right of the woman wearing the Red shirt.
  • Cheryl is exactly to the right of the woman that is going to travel for 15 days.
  • The woman who is going to Chile is visiting her Brother.
  • The woman who is going to Sydney is exactly to the left of the woman visiting her Grandfather.
  • Lori is is going to travel for 15 days.
  • Ann is next to the woman that is visiting her Brother.
  • The woman wearing the White shirt is somewhere between the woman that is going to travel for 25 days and Ann, in that order.
  • The woman that is going to visit her Grandfather is next to the woman wearing the Green shirt.
  • Jill is wearing the Pink shirt.
  • The 30-year-old woman is exactly to the left of the woman that is going to Thailand.

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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