Dispatch Logic Problem: Lunch (Hard)
There are 5 dispatchers working today, they are each working a separate position. Lunch breaks are every 30
minutes, and each dispatcher brought a different lunch today. Use the clues provided to determine which dispatcher
worked where, what time they went to lunch, and what they had for lunch.
Use an “X” for all items determined to be false. Use a “•” for all items determined to be true.
Back-Up
Amanda
Chicken
Phones
Burger
Steven
Police
Tacos
Blake
Salad
Soup
Ariel
NCIC
Fire
Mia
1100
1130
1200
1230
1300
Chicken
Burger
Tacos
Soup
Salad
Phones
Police
Fire
NCIC
Back-Up
Break Time Dispatcher Position Lunch
1100
1130
1200
1230
1300
1. Neither the dispatcher who worked Back-Up or the dispatcher who worked police went to lunch at 1130.
2. The dispatcher who ate chicken for lunch went to break 1 hour after the person who worked NCIC.
3. The dispatcher that worked Police went to lunch 90 minutes after Blake.
4. Amanda did not take break at 1300.
5. The person who had tacos for lunch, the person who had lunch at 1130, Amanda, and the person working
police are all different.
6. Amanda didn’t have chicken.
7. Of the dispatcher who had break at 1130 and the dispatcher who worked phones, one was Steven and the
other had chicken for lunch.
8. The dispatcher who ate lunch at 1230 didn’t have a salad.
9. Of Ariel, the dispatcher who ate a burger for lunch, one ate lunch at 1130 and the other worked Police.
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