Music Puzzles and Brain Teasers
Sherlock Holmes:
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

These puzzlers were inspired by the "Match Game" and
"Send More Money" brain teasers at Professor Tangent which also offers hints and solutions.

Match Game

5 musicians live in adjacent houses of different colors. They all play different instruments in different types of ensembles. No one plays the same type of music or has the same voice range. Fortunately for their other neighbors, they don't all practice at once.

Check off these clues as you use them.

The country musician plays piano.

The rock musician lives in the center house.

The sextet member lives in the first house on the left

The band member sings baritone.

The orchestra member lives in the red house

The green house's owner plays classical music.

The trio member plays jazz.

The owner of the yellow house plays violin.

The green house is to the left of the white house.

The quartet member plays bagpipes.

The guitar player's neighbor sings tenor.

The sextet member lives next to the blue house.

The saxophone player sings alto.

The violin player's neighbor sings bass.

The guitar player's neighbor plays mariachi music.


 

House #1

House #2

House #3

House #4

House #5

Color

Music

Voice

Instrument

Ensemble

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Sing More Music

Replace the letters with digits to make a valid sum. Each letter represents a different digit. There is more than one solution.

 SING
+MORE
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MUSIC
unused digits
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

S

I

N

G

M

O

R

E

U

C

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