GeekDad Puzzle of The Week Solution: Revolting Interns

Thanks to those interns quitting I got to read some great submissions for this weeks puzzle. Unfortunatly there can only be one winner of the $50.00 ThinkGeek gift certificate and that lucky winner is Matthew Maranda who correctly deduced that: Beth from Cubicle 1 hid my Ninja Star Coat Hook in the ladies room — […]
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Thanks to those interns quitting I got to read some great submissions for this weeks puzzle. Unfortunatly there can only be one winner of the $50.00 ThinkGeek gift certificate and that lucky winner is Matthew Maranda who correctly deduced that:

  1. Beth from Cubicle 1 hid my Ninja Star Coat Hook in the ladies room -- You bet I went in and got it!
  2. Freddy from Cubicle 2 hid my Dead Fred Pencil Holder in the Air Duct -- He took that so personally!
  3. Alvin from Cubicle 3 hid my Red Swing line Stapler in the Microwave -- He forgot to set it to explode, though.
  4. Elisa from Cubicle 4 hid my Walking Robot Pencil Sharpener in the Hazardous Waste Storage Vault -- Why do we have one of these anyway?

Here are the clues again:

  1. The interns sat one behind the other in cubicles numbered 1 through 4
  2. The intern in cubicle 4 hid my Walking Robot Pencil Sharpener
  3. Beth, who didn't use the air duct as a hiding place, did not sit behind Alvin
  4. Freddie sat directly in front of the intern who hid something in the microwave
  5. One intern hid my Dead Fred Pencil Holder in the Air Duct
  6. The intern who hid my Ninja Star Coat Hook sat in cubicle 1.
  7. Elisa Sat in cubicle 4
  8. The intern in cubicle 2 used the air duct as a hiding place
  9. Alvin hid my Red Swing line Stapler
  10. The intern who hid something in the Ladies Room did not sit behind the intern who used the Hazardous Waste Storage Vault.

These kinds of puzzles are best solved using a grid to keep track of everything. Here's the grid for this puzzle's solution:

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Tune in next week when Dave Banks throws your brain into a corpus callosum spasm inducing tizzy. Now I gotta go find some new interns and figure out why we have a hazardous waste storage vault.