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The whole family has been slowly cruising through the book Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles (vol 1). We are just a few from the end, and all stuck at the same spot on the same puzzle "Ticket Sales". Does anyone know if this puzzle is solvable as printed, or if there may be an error? If a puzzle does have an error that is discovered after the book goes to print, is there a place on this site for corrections? Thank you so much!
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I dont now, but I can look into it, and see? -
Also stuck myself. Let me know if you were able to figure it out. I'm wondering if I just have to work through one scenario in pencil and see if it works...Comment
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I have been working on Ticket Sales off and on for a month. I don’t see with the clues given that it is solvable.Comment
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There are multiple possible solutions that will satisfy the clues given, however, there is only one solution that does not require additional clues to fill in the remaining blanks.
I'm not sure how you'd get to that solution except by brute force. (I found a reddit thread about the same puzzle, and they somehow figured out Clue 3, which I didn't see a way of doing: https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/com...for_this_been/ )
After going through the list once and marking down all the clues on the grid, you should only have three "active" clues:
1. Wednesday's show has two fewer open seats compared to Music Ally.
2. Of Aunt Agony and Saturday's how, one has four open seats available and the other plays at the Gibson Theater.
3. Of Komedie Kiev and the show performing at the Burdette Theater, one shows on Frida and the other is completely sold out—not a single ticket available.
I've started a grid here:
https://www.jsingler.de/apps/logiklo...,p:!(a4b4),v:0)
By iterating through all possibilities for Wednesday (and Music Ally), you can see that only Wednesday = 6 and Music Ally = 8 will yield a "full" solution that fills in every blank without ambiguity. It's a curious puzzle for sure; even after solving it, I'm not sure how you're supposed to arrive at the solution normally.Comment
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