Bite-sized brain teaser to solve in a minute or less.
The Festival Feast
A small town is hosting its annual festival, and four food vendors have set up stalls in a row to serve delicious dishes. Each vendor specializes in a different type of cuisine and uses a unique cooking method. Can you figure out the order of the stalls, the cuisine each vendor serves, and the cooking method they use based on the clues?
Stalls:
- Italian
- Mexican
- Japanese
- Indian
Cooking Methods:
- Grilling
- Baking
- Steaming
- Roasting
Clues:
- The first stall serves Mexican food
- The Italian stall uses baking
- The Indian stall is next to the Mexican stall
- The fourth stall uses steaming
- The first stall does not use roasting
Solution
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Clue 1: The first stall serves Mexican food - The first stall is Mexican. Clue 2: The Italian stall uses baking. Clue 3: The Indian stall is next to the Mexican stall - Since the first stall is Mexican, the Indian stall has to be second. Clue 4: The fourth stall uses steaming - Since the Mexican and Indian stall are first and second, they cannot be the ones using steaming and we know from Clue 2 that the Italian stall uses baking. So the fourth stall has to be Japanese, which leaves the third stall to be Italian. Clue 5: The first stall does not use roasting - The first stall is Mexican. If it does not use roasting, then the Indian stall uses roasting, given the Italian stall uses baking (Clue 2) and the Japanese stall uses steaming (Clue 4). So, by the process of elimination, the Mexican stall uses grilling. Final arrangement:
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