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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $38$
- The Picnic
- Four married couples had a picnic together, and their refreshments included $32$ bottles of lemonade.
- Mary only disposed of one bottle,
- Anne had two,
- Jane swallowed the contents of three,
- and Elizabeth emptied four bottles.
- The husbands were more thirsty,
- except John MacGregor, who drank the same quantity as his better half.
- Lloyd Jones drank twice as much as his wife,
- William Smith three times as much as his wife,
- and Patrick Dolan four times as much as his wife demanded.
- The puzzle is to find the surnames of the ladies.
- Which man was married to which woman?
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- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age and Kinship Puzzles: $38$. -- The Picnic