Have you ever fancied owning all the items that appear in the Christmas song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'? Well, this group of friends did - but a bit of logic is needed to work out who went home with what!
Information you need to know:
Four friends had the bright idea of re-enacting 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' by clubbing together to buy the twelve gifts for their partners. To save costs, the gifts were divided into three groups and each friend picked a gift for their partner from each group.
Using the clues below, identify the three gifts (one from each group) selected by each of the four friends. If you've a pen and paper handy then using the 'grid' method might help you to solve the puzzle.
The four friends are named Carol, Holly, Noel and Rudolph.
The three groups of gifts are as follows:
Group 1: A partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, and four calling birds.
Group 2: Five gold rings, six geese-a-laying, seven swans-a-swimming, and eight maids-a-milking.
Group 3: Nine ladies dancing, ten lords-a-leaping, eleven pipers piping, and twelve drummers drumming.
Clues:
1. When Holly picked from the first group of gifts she ended up with the one with the most birds in it.
2. One of the two guys is planning to take the opportunity to propose to his Scottish girlfriend, picking out both the five gold rings and the eleven pipers piping to provide the background music.
3. Rudolph picked the performance of nine ladies dancing. Whether this gift was chosen for his girlfriend's benefit - or his own - remains unclear!
4. No set of three gifts contained less than two birds in total.
5. The four friends all believe that turtle doves are peaceful creatures that particularly hate loud music. Therefore none of them attempted to pair the doves with either the pipers or the drummers.
6. Carol had only one species of bird included in her set of three gifts.
7. Only one of the four sets of three gifts contained a total of precisely eight birds.
And now the questions begin:
1. Who picked out the five gold rings?
2. The eleven pipers piping were matched with which gift from the first group?
3. Carol selected which gift from the second group?
4. Holly's set of three gifts included only one species of bird. True or false?
5. Who ended up with the two turtle doves?
6. The eight maids-a-milking were matched with which gift from the third group?
7. The largest (and possibly noisiest) gift, involving twelve drummers drumming, was selected by which of the friends?
8. Which gift from the third group ended up in a present with a total of precisely eight birds?
9. The gaggle of six geese-a-laying (and the resulting eggs) went home with which of the four friends?
10. Which lucky friend took home the ubiquitous partridge in a pear tree?
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