After a particularly successful night of adventuring, five intrepid role-players chose to dice off for treasure.
Each player picked their luckiest die to roll, hoping that covered first pick. Each die had a special quality,
like being clear or marbled, and a special nickname, like Lucky Lucy or Spinnin' Sally. To help their luck, each
player rolled the die in their own distinctive way, such as adding back spin or dropping the dice from high above
the table.
Using the clues below, can you determine the special quality and
nickname of each players die, how they rolled it and in what place they came
in?
Download the XL spreadsheet I used to work this out on.
| Clear | Black | Marbled | Gold | Speckled | Lucky Lucy | Heavy Davey | Rollin' Death | Bob | Spinnin' Sally | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | Back Spin | High Drop | Long Toss | No Look | Open Hand | |
| Tom | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mary | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mark | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chris | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Shelly | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Back Spin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| High Drop | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Long Toss | ||||||||||||||||||||
| No Look | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Open Hand | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fifth | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fourth | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Third | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Second | ||||||||||||||||||||
| First | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lucky Lucy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Heavy Davey | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rollin' Death | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Bob | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spinnin' Sally | ||||||||||||||||||||
1) Bob or the Marbled Die led Chris or Shelly to their finishing
places by high dropping or open handed rolling.
2) Tom placed better than Mary (who didn't use a clear die), but
exactly 2 worse than Mark (who didn't use Spinnin' Sally).
3) Lucky Lucy was very unlucky and its owner scored worse than
atleast three other players; the black die owner, Spinnin' Sally's owner, and
the high dropper.
4) The player that attempted to back spin his way to victory did
not name his die for a girl, and the player that tried to use the no look
roll as a tactic scored worse than Tom.
5) The open hand roller, who was not Shelly, was not able to
beat Heavy Davey's owner (who wasn't Mary), but was able to surpass both the
clear die and Rollin' Death.
6) The player with the long toss scored better than both the
gold die and Shelly (who took 3rd and 4th place in some order).
7) Bob led his player to exactly one place better than Lucky
Lucy and exactly two places worse than the marbled die.
This has been reproduced without permission from Knights of the Dinner Table #71.
No Claim on this puzzle has been made by its reproducer, and the intent is only to
share the fun with others.
Answers can be found at the bottom of the page ">Answers can be found at the bottom of the page
KODT #71 (September 2002), pg 77
Tom rolled his Gold die named Rollin' Death using a Back Spin and came in Third.
Mary rolled her Speckled die named Lucky Lucy with a No Look and came in Fifth.
Mark rolled his Black die named Heavy Davey with a Long Toss and came in First.
Chris rolled his Marbled die named Spinning Sally with an Open Hand and came in Second.
Shelly rolled her Clear die named Bob with a High Drop and came in Fourth.
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