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Table one:
Bonnie is giving Hank cherry cream pies.
Fran is giving Larry banana cream pies.
Darla is giving Phil apple pies.
Table two:
Nancy is giving Dave peach cream pies.
Kathleen is giving Bob Blueberry pies.
How it's done:
I just drew up two tables. One with 3 rows (table one) and one with two rows (table two). Then you start filling in the data you do know and you begin a simple process of elimination.
For example:
"Larry sat between Darla's husband (who did not eat a cream pie) and Hank."
Between means these people are obviously at the table with 3 couples, as you can't be between someone when there is only one person next to you. So from that, we know that Larry is sitting in the middle, besides Hank and Darla's Husband.
So you've got data looking like this already:
Table one:
Hank/?pie/?wife
Larry/?pie/?wife
?husband/?pie/Darla
What i then did was listed all the types of pies in a cell for each couple and began crossing them off as i eliminated each one. It's really quite simple once you get going.
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26 + 6 = 1
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