Hiya Rocky, this is how I worked out the solution:


Lucy........Crunchies....Rabbit......Tennis..........Lilac......Maldives
Jo...........Wispa Bites...Puppy.....Horse Riding..Blue......Tobago
Hannah....Dairy Milk...             ..Ten Pin..........Pink.......Florida
Jessica.....Milky Bars...Horse......Skiing............Green...Australia
Georgina..Boost..........Hamster..Swimming......Purple...Canada


So, that would mean that Hannah must own the Croc !!

It took me ages, too ! And 3 goes, and lots of paper.

I found that writing their names in the right order (left to right) helped, so Lucy is first because it says she is on the left, and Georgina is last, and I could figure that Hannah is in the middle because she likes Dairy Milk and Dairy Milk is in the middle. That gave me a good start.

I did the Crocidile problem at work today and it took me about an hour and a half.  I tried the Fish one first, but had a very hard time with it.  I really enjoy challenges like these.  I look forward to finding more on your website.

hrock and Hyperbelt7, you are both right, but don't tell anyone

Hiya fez ... just "no"? You're just kidding around, right?

That's great, Anna. We are trying to get some new puzzles and games for the website, so check back in a week or so!

i think it is Jessica because she likes green and she would like to go to australia where crocs come from and they are generaly green. :lol

MathsIsFun wrote:

Hiya fez ... just "no"? You're just kidding around, right?

I didn't know what else to write!

Does sound a bit difficult ...

... there could be some common properties such as equal angles, or right angles, or equal sides that you might be able to see. Perhaps one group is obviously all irregular. You say "Parallelograms", but are they indeed Parallelograms ?

Have you looked at our pages on Quadrilaterals? Maybe that would help.

See further up on this discussion, Maria.

If only there were a better way to test math skills. Exams are so stressful.

Why not get a few old exam papers, and have someone supervise you like a real exam. "It is 9 O'Clock, you can now start ... ". Have a big old clock on the wall to further stress you out. If you can pass an old exam this way, then you will have more confidence in the real exam.

Also, exam preparation is important. What I used to do was this: Every day I studied, I would write down important points on a sheet of paper (like "multiplying negatives gives a positive"). Sometimes I would have 2 or 3 pieces of paper that summarised everything I had learned. An hour before the exam I would find a quiet corner and go over my summary sheets until it was all fresh in my mind.

And you know it is hard to be stressed about anything you have confidence in.

Hope this helps.

Thank you !