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(Message started by: cchris on Jul 27^th, 2006, 12:23am)

Title: Pacific Air 121
Post by cchris on Jul 27^th, 2006, 12:23am

Edited/censored from original. Not a true "what happened", but you can look at it like that. Thanks to Ann for this:

Pacific Air Flight 121 is in trouble! Some mothef----r has released snakes on the motherf-----g plane! Needless to say, the passengers are terrified, but there’s good news! Samuel L. Jackson, that bada-- motherf----r, is on the flight! Six of the passengers–Barbara, Cindy, George, Mike, Ralph, and Tina–had particularly harrowing encounters with venomous snakes (a black mamba, a boomslang, an taipan, a gaboon viper, a king cobra, and a rattlesnake), but Samuel saved them all from certain death (he strangled one snake with his bare hands). Can you figure out what type of snake each person encountered and how Samuel took it out?

Barbara (whose snake was killed when Samuel used it like a whip) isn't the one
who encountered the gaboon viper (which wasn't the snake George ran into) or the
rattlesnake.

Tina was petrified when she was threatened by a snake, but Samuel saved her by
flinging open the emergency exit and throwing the snake out the door, crying, "I've
had it with these snakes!"

A woman encountered the boomslang, which wasn't the snake Samuel shot.

"I hope you burn in hell!" Samuel shouted as he tasered the rattlesnake.

George didn't run into the rattlesnake. Tina didn't come face to face with a king cobra.

The 6 passengers are George, the woman who watched Samuel crush a snake underfoot, the passenger
who ran into the black mamba, Ralph, the person who was saved when Samuel shot the snake in
front of him or her, and the person who encountered the king cobra.

So what snake did each person run into and how was it killed?

--edit-- It helps to open Microsoft Word and create a 6x3 table, list the people mentioned in the last paragraph in the first column, the snake they did/did not run into in the second, and the fate of the snake in the third.

Title: Re: Pacific Air 121
Post by Roy on Jul 27^th, 2006, 12:32am

These are the type of puzzles that you can make a cross checkbox grid and just eventually rule each answer down to one. if i can find some paper, i'll bother to do it........ok, maybe not.

Title: Re: Pacific Air 121
Post by K Sengupta on Nov 14^th, 2006, 8:41am

On Jul 27th, 2006, 12:32am; cchris wrote:

Quote:

It helps to open Microsoft Word and create a 6x3 table, list the people mentioned in the last paragraph in the first column, the snake they did/did not run into in the second, and the fate of the snake in the third.

I put the snakes mentioned in the first column , the persons encountering a given snake in the second column and the mode of termination of a given snake in the third column.

The result obtained by a process of elimination in terms of the provisions governing the puzzle is furnished below.

[hide]Snake................Encountered by.......Mode of termination

Boomslang.............Cindy.....................Crushed underfoot
Black Mamba...........Tina......................Thrown out
Gaboon viper..........Mike......................Shot by the gun
King Cobra.............Barbara..................Used as a whip
Rattlesnake............Ralph................... Tasered
Taipan...................George................ Strangled[/hide]