Anne, Brian, Cindy and David have got best friends From this game you can find out their best friends’ name, who they are and their age Look at the clues, fill in the tables, and then write full sentences using the solution To solve this logic game put an 'X' where there is a relation and '-' where there isn't MENA 10 FRIEND’S AGE neighbour family friend cousin classmate WHO’S THE FRIEND Ted Marty Lisa Amy FRIEND’S NAME Anne Brian Cindy ENFRI David O’SWH 10 classmate cousin family friend neighbour Now summarize your answers NAME FRIEND’S NAME WHO’S THE FRIEND FRIEND’S AGE Anne Brian Cindy David Now write sentences Look at the example e.g.: Molly’s best friend is Lola, a girl from the playground She is years old 1) Anne 2) Brian 3) Cindy 4) David © Susan V Toth SOLUTION NAME FRIEND’S NAME WHO’S THE FRIEND FRIEND’S AGE Anne Amy neighbour 10 Brian Ted classmate Cindy Marty cousin David Lisa family friend The cliparts are from fumira com The steps of the solution If you put an X somewhere cross out the other rubrics in the same row and column but just in that part of the table 12 Lily 11 MENA Kelly 10 AGE e.g - - - X Rob - Tim - CLUE 1: David’s friend is a girl She isn’t eight years old She isn’t his cousin or his neighbour Step 1: David’s friend is a girl You can cross out (-) Marty and Ted in David’s row Step 2: She isn’t eight years old You can cross out in David’s row Step 3: She isn’t his cousin or his neighbour You can cross out the cousin and the neighbour in David’s row CLUE 2: Marty is Cindy’s friend He isn’t her classmate He’s nine years old Step 1: Marty is Cindy’s friend You can put an X to Marty in Cindy’s row You can cross out Amy, Lisa and Ted Of course you can cross out Anne and Brian in Marty’s column Step 2: He isn’t her classmate You can cross out the classmate in Cindy’s row and also in Marty’s column Step 3: He’s nine years old • You can put an X to in Cindy’s row You can cross out here 7, and 10 In the column you can cross out Anne, Brian and David • You can put an X to in Marty’s column You can cross out here 7, and 10 • And you can also cross out Amy, Lisa and Ted in row Step 4: You can cross out one more thing in row It’s the classmate Because Marty isn’t Cindy’s classmate CLUE 3: The neighbours are girls • You can cross out Brian and Cindy in the neighbour’s column Yes, Cindy, too Because we know her friend is a boy So there’s only one name left It’s Anne So Anne’s neighbour is her best friend You can put an X to Anne in this column, and cross out the classmate, the cousin and the family friend in Anne’s row • You can also cross out in the neighbour’s column (because Marty’s and he’s a boy) And you can also cross out Marty and Ted in the neighbour’s row • You can cross out Ted in Anne’s row • Now you get Ted’s Brian’s friend Put there an X • Cross out Amy and Lisa in Brian’s row CLUE 4: Lisa is a family friend • Put an X to the family friend in Lisa’s column You can cross out the classmate, the cousin and the neighbour You can also cross out Amy, Marty and Ted in the family friend’s row • You get that Amy is a neighbour Put an X there Cross out the cousin and the classmate in Amy’s column • Now you get that Ted is the classmate and Marty’s the cousin Put there X Cross out the cousin in Ted’s column • Use these pieces of information to fill in the other parts of the table Let’s see how o So Ted’s the classmate and he’s Brian’s friend, too That’s why we can put an X to the classmate in Brian’s row and cross out the cousin and the family friend Also we can cross out David in the classmate’s column o We get that Cindy’s friend is her cousin Put there an X Cross out the family friend in her row o And also we know now David’s friend is the family friend Put there an X, as well • The next step is to match the pieces of information we know o The neighbour is Amy and Anne’s friend is the neighbour So Amy is Anne’s friend Put there an X And cross out Lisa in Anne’s row and David in Amy’s column o There’s only one possibility, Lisa is David’s friend, so put an X to Lisa in David’s row She’s very young • Put an X to in Lisa’s column (because very young means the youngest here) and cross out and 10 Also cross out Amy and Ted in the row of • Lisa is David’s friend, so put an X to in David’s row Cross out 10 Also cross out Anne and Brian in the column of • Lisa is a family friend, so put an X to the family friend in the row of Cross out here the classmate, the cousins and the neighbours Also cross out 8, 9, 10 in the family friend’s column • There’s only one possibility in the row of 9, so put an X to in the cousin’s column and cross out and 10 CLUE 5: Ted isn’t ten • Cross out Ted in row of 10 We get that Amy is 10 So put there an X Cross out in Amy’s column We get that Ted’s Put there an X • Finally, put an X to 10 in Anne’s row and another one to in Brian’s • Put an X to the classmate in row of and one more to the neighbour in the row of 10 Cross out the left rubrics We are ready You can fill in the chart / table with the pieces of information and write down the sentences