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Derby Puzzle Solution and Solving Steps [1]

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Date: 2025-03-30 18:52:07+00:00

Babe Ruthless got 7 penalties, has pink skate laces, and pivot is her favorite position. She had to buy the others soda!

Asteroid got 3 penalties, has yellow laces, and coach is her favorite position.

Maggie Mayhem got zero penalties, has blue skate laces, and blocker is her favorite position.

Bloody Holly got 2 penalties, has white skate laces, and jammer is her favorite position.

One way to solve the puzzle:

From Clue 1: Eliminate both Asteroid and Bloody from having 0 or 7 penalties. From Clue 2: Asteroid’s favorite position is coach; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities. From Clue 3:

Eliminate the blocker position from being Babe or Bloody’s favorite (coach was already not possible). This reveals that Maggie’s favorite position is blocker; eliminate the other horizontal possibilities.

From Clue 4: Maggie’s lace color is blue; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities. From Clue 5:

The player who favors jammer has 2 penalties; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities. The jammer position has white laces; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities. The player with white laces has 2 penalties; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities.

From Clue 6: The player with pink laces has 7 penalties; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities. Since both Asteroid and Bloody don’t have 7 penalties, eliminate both from having pink laces.

This reveals that Babe has pink laces; eliminate the other vertical possibilities.

Babe has pink laces; the player with pink laces got 7 penalties; Babe must have gotten 7 penalties; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities.

This reveals that Maggie must have gotten 0 penalties; eliminate the other vertical possibilities.

Maggie has blue laces; Maggie favors blocker; the player with blue laces must favor blocker; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities. Maggie favors blocker; Maggie received 0 penalties; the player who got 0 penalties must favor blocker; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities. Asteroid’s favorite position is coach; Asteroid has been eliminated from having 7 penalties; eliminate the player who favors coach from having got 7 penalties.

This reveals that the player who favors coach got 3 penalties; eliminate the other horizontal possibilities. This reveals that the player who favors pivot got 7 penalties.

The player who favors pivot has 7 penalties; the player who got 7 penalties has pink laces; thus the player who favors pivot has pink laces; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities.

This reveals that the player who has yellow laces favors coach.

Babe has 7 penalties; the player with 7 penalties favors pivot; Babe favors pivot; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities.

This reveals that Bloody must have jammer as her favorite position.

The player who favors jammer has 2 penalties; Bloody favors jammer; thus Bloody got 2 penalties; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities.

This reveals that Asteroid must have gotten 3 penalties.

Maggie got 0 penalties; Maggie has blue skate laces; thus the player with 0 penalties has blue skate laces; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities.

This reveals that the player with yellow laces must have gotten 3 penalties.

Bloody got 2 penalties; the player who got 2 penalties has white skate laces; thus Bloody must have white skate laces; eliminate the other horizontal and vertical possibilities.

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