A bakery makes three types of pastries: muffins, scones, and tarts. Every customer buys at least one pastry. No customer buys two of the same type. If three customers enter and each buys a unique combination of two different pastries, which pastry type was bought by all three customers?
Muffins and scones and tarts... wait, let's re-read carefully.
Since there are 3 types of pastries and 3 customers each buying 2 unique combinations, every possible pair (muffin-scone, scone-tart, tart-muffin) is bought, meaning every pastry type is bought by exactly two customers.
About this riddle
Logic riddles give you a few facts and ask what must be true. List what you know, cross out what cannot be, and see what is left.
Difficulty: Hard. More like this: Logic riddles with answers or try Einstein's Logic Grid for a different kind of puzzle.
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