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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

Environmental Issues Zebra Puzzle

Five environmental experts are side by side talking about environmental issues. Each one is a specialist in one problem, is drinking a type of juice and is going to a conference next month. Can you manage to gather all the information about each expert?

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
  • Issue
  • Conference
  • Age
  • Juice
Expert #1 #1
Expert #2 #2
Expert #3 #3
Expert #4 #4
Expert #5 #5
  • The woman drinking Apple juice is wearing the Pink shirt.
  • The 40-year-old expert is next to the Overfishing expert.
  • At the second position is the specialist that is going to a conference in Rome.
  • The 50-year-old expert is exactly to the left of the expert that is going to the United States.
  • The woman wearing the Red shirt is somewhere between Christina and the woman drinking Lemon juice, in that order.
  • The Pollution expert is going to a conference in Asia.
  • The Climate expert is somewhere to the right of the expert wearing the Pink shirt.
  • The Acid rain specialist is next to the specialist who is drinking Strawberry juice.
  • The 45-year-old woman is exactly to the right of the woman wearing the Red shirt.
  • Robin is somewhere between the 40-year-old expert and Kelly, in that order.
  • Kelly is next to the specialist that is going to a conference in Europe.
  • The woman wearing the White shirt is next to the woman wearing the Pink shirt.
  • Dana is at one of the ends.
  • The specialist drinking Strawberry juice is next to the specialist drinking Apple juice.
  • The expert wearing the Red shirt is somewhere between the expert wearing the Green shirt and the oldest expert, in that order.
  • At the fifth position is the woman drinking Orange juice.
  • The woman that is going to China is somewhere between the woman wearing the Green shirt and the woman that is going to Rio de Janeiro, in that order.
  • The Deforestation expert is next to the expert drinking Lemon juice.
  • The specialist wearing the Pink shirt is exactly to the left of the youngest specialist.
  • At one of the ends is the 55-year-old expert.

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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Zebra Puzzles in Education

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