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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

Cyber Monday Zebra Puzzle

Five friends are side by side talking about their purchases on Cyber Monday. Find out what they bought and how many days it will take for their purchases to arrive.

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
  • Product
  • Discount
  • Delivery
  • Age
Customer #1 #1
Customer #2 #2
Customer #3 #3
Customer #4 #4
Customer #5 #5
  • The 22-year-old customer is exactly to the left of the customer whose delivery will take 2 days to arrive.
  • The man wearing the White shirt is somewhere between the man who got the biggest discount and the man who got the lowest discount, in that order.
  • The 22-year-old customer is next to the customer who got 20% off.
  • The man wearing the Orange shirt is somewhere to the left of the man that saved 30%.
  • At one of the ends is the youngest costumer.
  • The man wearing the White shirt is somewhere between Colin and the man wearing the Red shirt, in that order.
  • At the fourth position is the customer wearing the Orange shirt.
  • It will take 3 days to delivery the Laptop.
  • The man who got the 40% discount is exactly to the left of the man who got the 20% discount.
  • The 22-year-old customer is exactly to the right of the 21-year-old customer.
  • The man wearing the White shirt is somewhere between the man who will wait for 6 days for his delivery and the man who bought the Cell phone, in that order.
  • Edgar is 23 years old.
  • The customer wearing the Black shirt is exactly to the right of the oldest man.
  • Peter is somewhere between the man that will wait for 5 days for his delivery and John, in that order.
  • The customer who bought the Drone is exactly to the left of the customer who bought the Laptop.
  • The man whose delivery will take 4 days to arrive is somewhere to the right of the man wearing the Orange shirt.
  • The man that bought the TV is somewhere between the man wearing the Blue shirt and the man who got the 20% discount, in that order.
  • The 20-year-old customer is next to the customer that got the 50% discount.
  • Edgar is exactly to the right of the man that will wait for 5 days to get his product.

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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Cognitive Benefits of Zebra Puzzles

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Zebra Puzzles in Education

Zebra puzzles are increasingly being incorporated into educational settings as a tool for teaching logic and reasoning skills. Teachers and educators find these puzzles to be useful in engaging students in active learning, as they require students to apply critical thinking to solve complex problems. The puzzles can be adapted to various difficulty levels, making them accessible for students of different ages and abilities. They can be used as stand-alone exercises or integrated into a broader curriculum focused on mathematics, logic, or computer science.

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