Four friends (one is named Sara) drove to the grocery store to buy their favorite food and drink. Two sat in the front seat, and two sat in the back seat. Each bought a different food (one bought chili), and each bought a different soda (one bought root beer). Use the clues below to determine which food each person bought, each person’s soda flavor, and where each person was sitting.

Question

The person who bought soup sat next to Mark.
Roberto sat diagonally from the person who had the lemon-lime soda.
The person who bought cola sat on the same side of the car as the person who preferred macaroni & cheese.
The person who had the orange soda sat on the same side of the car as the person who bought soup.
Roberto sat on the same side of the car as the person who bought spaghetti.
Ari sat next to the person with the cola.
The driver did not buy a kind of pasta.
The person with the root beer sat in the back seat.

Answer 1

These logic puzzles are a bit of fun. Just make a grid with a row for each person, and a column for each characteristic. Fill in grid cells where you know what to put there. As the grid gets filled in, you can use the emerging contents and the still-unused clues to complete the solution.

How far do you get? There are lots of example solved problems online to use as models.