Just as a friendly reminder: Tell all your friends and colleagues, spread word in your blogs... about this cool-contest!! btw.: I received already seven (7) cute solutions) - some even in different programming languages. We still don't have a Ruby solutions, and your friends from the Erlang/Haskell/PHP department might join in :-) Have a nice weekend, Gernot ==== repeated message follows: ===================== Hi JBoss-Drools-folks, round 2 of our (not-already) famous (enough) puzzle contest just opened. Until September 14th you can send your solutions to droolspuzzle(a)gmail.com The riddle itself has been posted in the JBoss-Drools-Blog http://blog.athico.com/2007/08/drools-puzzle-round-2-familiy-puzzle.html For you non-bloggers: ===================================== Difficulty level: Settler * Three men, Abel, Locker and Snyder are married to Edith, Doris and Luisa, but not necessarily in this order. * Each couple has one son. * The sons are called Albert, Henry and Victor. * Snyder is nor married to Luisa, neither is he Henry's father. * Edit is not married to Locker and not Albert's mother. * If Alberts father is either Locker or Snyder, then Luisa is Victor's mother. * If Luisa is married to Locker, then Doris is not Albert's mother. Who is married to whom and what are their sons called? Taken from the German book "Denken als Spiel" by Willy Hochkeppel, 1973 (Thinking as a Game). ===================================== Rules of the Contest: http://blog.athico.com/2007/08/drools-puzzles.html We're looking forward to your contributions - let the rules rule... greetings from Cologne, Gernot Dr. Gernot Starke Doing IT Right --- Willi-Lauf Allee 43, D-50858 Köln gs(a)gernotstarke.de, +49 (0) 177 - 728 2570 http://www.gernotstarke.de Blog: http://it-and-more.blogspot.com