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Quidditch Logic Puzzle Walkthrough

THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE QUIZ - if you have stumbled upon this walkthrough by accident, it's probably a good idea to look away now.

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Step 1 – Ron’s favourite team are the Chudley Cannons. So we know they came last, so we can enter 13 for the Cannons. Gwenog Jones played for the all-female Holyhead Harpies, so we can enter 01 for Harpies.

Step 2(a) – The Harpies clue tells us that only the Cannons finished below the teams named after birds. Therefore, the three teams named after birds, the Falcons, the Kestrels and the Magpies must have finished in 10^th, 11^th and 12^th places, the three worst positions excluding the Cannons’ last place. We know from the Cannons clue that no team is adjacent to a team finishing immediately above/below them, so the bordering Kestrels and Magpies cannot have finished 11^th, as this would cause a breach of this rule. So we therefore know that the Falcons finished eleventh.

Step 2(b) – The Harpies clue also tells us that the Magpies finished ahead of the Falcons. As we know that the Magpies finished 10^th or worse, the only place they can occupy is 10^th, so we can enter 10 for the Magpies. This leaves twelfth place for the Kestrels to occupy.

Step 3(i) – So there’s a lot of information here. Look at the Magpies clue. It tells us that the positions of Puddlemere and Wimbourne add to make 13, but neither finished fifth or better. Combinations of numbers that add to make 13 are 1+12, 2+11, 3+10, 4+9, 5+8, 6+7. But only one of these has no numbers five or smaller: 6 and 7, so they most occupy these spots between them.

Step 3(ii) – The Kestrels clue tells us that the Tornados and Pride of Portree must have finished above Puddlemere United and the Wasps. We know the only places above Puddlemere and the Wasps that are left untaken are 02, 03, 04 and 05. From the Falcons clue, we know that 02 and 05 are taken by the Arrows and the Catapults, so that leaves us with just 03 and 04. As the Tornados finished above Pride of Portree, we can enter 03 for the Tornados, and 04 for Pride of Portree.

Step 4 – The Tornados clue tells us that the team alphabetically first in each row did not 

position highest in their row. We know that the Arrows and the Catapults occupy 02 and 05 from the Falcons clue, so we can establish that, since the Arrows are alphabetically first in the row, the we can enter 02 for the Catapults, and assign fifth place to the Arrows.

Step 5 – So let’s look at the four positions we haven’t filled – 06, 07, 08 and 09. If we look back to step 3(a), we established that Puddlemere United and Wimbourne Wasps occupied 06 and 07 in some order, so the Wanderers and the Bats must occupy 08 and 09 between them somewhere – so we can split them up into two pairs. Now look at the clue for Pride of Portree: if the Wasps finished ahead of United, the Wanderers would finish above the Bats. But, should this happen, then according to the Arrows clue, United must finish ahead of Wasps. This is a contradiction, so we know that United must come sixth, and then that Wasps come seventh, so that we avoid it.

Step 6 – Finally, we have two spots left – eighth and ninth. We know (way back from the Cannons clue) that seventh place cannot border eighth, so we can finish up by entering 08 for the Bats and then 09 for the Wanderers. Congratulations, you solved it. (Well, you kind of cheated by looking here but I’ll forgive you).

Some Potter Hints

There are only two Harry Potter related pieces of logic that you need to solve the logic puzzle. They are both below, with the answers in white text in between the dashes - you'll need to highlight them with your cursor to make them show up.

The team that Gwenog Jones played for are the ---Holyhead Harpies---.

Ron's favourite team (who were perenially last) were the ---Chudley Cannons---.

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Men's Tennis Logic Puzzle Walkthrough

1) Djokovic says that no-one finished in a worse position in their group than a Spaniard. There are three Spaniards in the grid, Almagro, Nadal and Ferrer. Nadal and Ferrer are in the same group, so we cannot work out Nadal and Ferrer’s positions, but we do know that Almago must have finished in fifth place in his group.

 

2) Every Frenchman reached the quarter-finals, and progressed no further. Therefore, Simon, Gasquet were the two qualifiers in Group B. As we know from Djokovic’s clue that no-one finished lower in their group than a Spaniard, Tommy Haas has to have come third in his group.

3) Juan Martin Del Potro is the Argentinian Grand Slam winner, who must have come third in his group, as that is the lowest non-qualification spot left in Group A.

4) There are two seeds in Group D, Tsonga and Murray. We know that Murray must have lost to Tsonga. As Tsonga qualified, and no winner of a group lost a set in the group stages, Murray must have come second, as he later played, and lost to Berdych. Putting Berdych and Murray into the tournament tree, we can work out where they met. Murray was in Quarter-Final 3, and Berdych in Quarter-Final 4. The winners of Quarter-Finals 3&4 could not meet until the final, so as Murray lost to Berdych, Murray must have been the runner-up, and Berdych the champion.

5) Only four of the seeds qualified to the knockout stages. As none of the seeds from Groups A or B qualified for it, all of the seeds from Groups C and D made the knockout stages. Switzerland was not represented in the semi-finals, so Roger Federer must have been knocked out in the quarter-finals.

6) There are two North American players, Raonic and Querrey. One win was shared between them, so as the points in Group D were distributed 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0, Raonic and Querrey must have finished 4^th and 5^th in some order, one having defeated the other. Therefore, Nishikori must have finished third in his group.

7) As Sam Querrey beat Milos Raonic, so Querrey came 4^th and Raonic 5^th in their group.

8) There are two semi-final spots left, both of which must be occupied by the two Group A qualifiers, as there were none from Group B and one each from Group C and D.

9) Raonic tells us that seeds 5-8 always did better in their group than seeds 1-4. This means that Ferrer must have come last in his group and Nadal fourth.

10) Every one of Group 3’s matches was won in two sets. This means that going by the fact that the points were distributed 4, 3, 2, 1 and 0, each placing in the group had the following Sets Win/Loss score – 1^st: 8/0; 2^nd: 6/2; 3^rd: 4/4; 4^th: 2/6 and 5^th: 0/8. Swiss players lost six sets in total. Roger Federer must have won his group, as Berdych came second, so he won every set and lost only 2, when he lost to Murray. To make six sets lost in total by Swiss players, Wawrinka must have come third, so he lost 4 sets.

11) The sets difference for the Germans was -7. Tommy Haas must have won two and lost two, with one of the losses having to be Simon, who came second in the group. Haas therefore won two matches 2-0, lost one match 1-2 and lost the other match 0-2, meaning his set difference was 5-4. To make the combined sets difference for the Germans -7, Kohlschreiber must have had a sets difference of -8. The only way he could have achieved this was to come last in the group, so Kohlschreiber was fifth placed.

12) Tipsarevic must have taken the final place, fourth.

13) Done! Congratulations!