Tutorial

 

Hack Tack Zan tells all the tricks of the trade (thanks to I Go “Bee Ran!!!” for translating the anagrams into English.)

 


Best tools for solving a puzzle are X’s and O’s

 

Let’s use my simple little puzzle “The Craaaaaaazy U.K.” found here.

 

Here’s what you know:

 

1.      You cannot get to Wales in a helicopter.

 

 

 

 

 

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So, you can cross out the Wales/Helicopter square.

 

  1. The private jet is the most expensive.

 

Okay, BIGGEST mistake in logic puzzle history; always remember to cross out ALL impossibilities!!!

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            This little doozy of a trick is an essential to solving puzzles.  It says that no other transport can be $400, and the jet can only be $400.  Smart aren’t I?

 

  1. You cannot get to Wales by boat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


            We’re just getting warmed up!  Oh YEAH!!!!!

 

  1. A helicopter ticket costs less than a Scotland ticket but still neither the cheapest.

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second rule in the Hackster’s book: Know thy Greater Than and Less Than Questions.  If A is greater than B, than A can’t be the lowest and B can’t be the highest.  If you already know they both aren’t greatest, for example, then just pretend the second greatest is the greatest one.  See above.

 

  1. The private jet goes to England.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


            If you paid attention earlier (Hint. Hint.) you’d know what to do for this question.

 

            BUT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

            Upon Close inspection, you’d notice Wales can be reached by an underwater subway. (Okay, I got a little creative on the last transportation mode, but I ran out of plausible ideas.) So…. fill it in like England.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


            Keep it coming!

 

  1. There is an underwater subway.

The reason I put that here is because it is never mentioned before in the original puzzle.

 

  1. The helicopter goes to Northern Ireland.