Literary Conundrum - April - In the Garden
Welcome back to Literary Conundrum. The April theme is 'In the Garden'.
Gardens and greenhouses are special places. Usually they are a place of, yes, some work, when taking care of the plants, but they are also a place to be quiet and still whilst working with plants. Our very own Harry Potter books have action in Greenhouses. Do you remember when they were repotting (or potting up) the Mandrakes? Those ear-muffs were very important!
I again did a Google search to find a quick definition for greenhouses:
The definition of a greenhouse is a building made of glass panes in which heat and humidity can be regulated in order to grow plants. An example of a greenhouse is where vegetables can be grown when the outside weather is below freezing.
The word 'garden' has a much wider variety of definitions, but the general theme is that it is a place where plants are grown. It can be a small place, as small as a window sill, or it can be of many acres or even of many hectare, and the plants grown are only limited by the imagination and abilities of the gardener (and the local climate).
Following are four puzzles, or challenges, prompted by some well-known books, which have as their source books on gardening or green houses or where gardens and/or green houses play an important part. You may do one or all of them. You'll receive
20 Beans for each that you finish and send in to me, Professor Tarma Amelia Black, in a
HOL Forum PM. You have until
the end of April (April 30th, 11:59 pm HOL time) to send in your answers and/or solutions!
Send in with subject "
Literary Conundrum - (name of puzzle)"
Logic Puzzle
What do we do with flowers? We enjoy them! Following is a Logic Puzzle featuring flowers ...
Five women bought five different types of flowers for different reasons on different days.
Names: Julia, Amy, Bethany, Rachel, and Kristen
Flowers: Roses, Daisies, Lilies, Tulips, and Carnations
Colors: Purple, Yellow, Pink, White, and Peach
Places or Occasions: Backyard, Park, Office, Wedding, and Birthday
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
1. The flowers were purchased in the following order: tulips, the flowers for the office, the purple flowers, the roses for the park, and the white flowers bought by Julia.
2. Bethany loves flowers but is allergic, so she would never have them indoors.
3. It rained on Wednesday and Friday, because of this, the wedding and birthday party had to be moved indoors.
4. Amy bought her flowers after Rachel, but before Kristen.
5. Rachel needed something more to add to her office, so she chose peach flowers to match her curtains.
6. On Wednesday the only purple flowers available at the flower shop were daisies.
7. The pink flowers were bought after the carnations, but before the lilies.
8. The flowers for the birthday were bought after the flowers for the office, but before the flowers for the wedding.
Solve the puzzle, telling me who chose what flower, what color it was, on which day this was done and what occasion prompted it.
If you like using grids, here is a 5x5 grid for you -
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Note: If you get stuck, write to me using a HOL forum PM (see link above) and say 'LC - Logic - WD-40 please' and we can look at what you have and hopefully get you on track!
(Thank you, Emily, for this Logic Puzzle.)
Flowers Word Scramble
Flowers are so beautiful. Some are quite simple and modest and others are flamboyant and extremely colorful - with all varieties in between. Mention of flowers abound in all kinds of stories and plays.
In
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, you can find
‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray,
love, remember: and there is pansies. that’s for thoughts.’
Graphic shows a picture of flowers, herbs and 'green' plants on a sunny day, with a row of scrambled up letters in the middle from top to bottom.
Direct link to image -
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Link to larger image -
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Unscramble the 15 words, all of which are names of flowers, and send to me by the end of the month to earn 20 Beans!
(Thank you, Emily, for this Word Scramble.)
Jigsaw
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is a classic children's novel and tells of a young girl who lived in India, was orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor (which is located in the gloomy Yorkshire, England). Yorkshire is cold and she is used to living in a warm climate. Miserable, she is stubborn and rude, and given to stormy temper tantrums. Then she discovers a walled garden which is always kept locked and also discovers there is a great mystery about the place.
The Secret Garden has been adapted extensively on stage, film and television and translated into all the world's major languages.
The Secret Garden
When you have solved the Jigsaw, send me the screenshot of the completed picture. Please make sure that your time and number of pieces (117) show up in your screenshot.. The 3 people with the fastest times will earn some bonus Beans!
Maze
Sometimes an entire area is regarded as a garden by the inhabitants. This Maze has a faint and ghostly background of a famous area of Middle Earth (a land written about by J.R.R. Tolkien in his
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, and also in his
The Lord of the Rings series).
Graphic shows a maze superimposed on a ghostly image of Bags End.
For direct link to Maze, click
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For a larger picture of Maze, click
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I hope you enjoy our Literary Conundrums for April!
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