Occasional Puzzles - 🍰 Let Them Eat (Ice Cream) (Wedding) Cake
Happy wedding week to New York readers Tessa & Dan! We can't wait to celebrate with you in a few days 🥂
Today's Puzzle - 🍰 Let Them Eat (Ice Cream) (Wedding) Cake
As ice cream snobs aficionados, Tessa & Dan have decided to serve a four-layer ice cream cake at their wedding, containing some of the finest flavors in all of New York. They have five candidate flavors:
- Cookies & Cream
- Mocha Chip
- Butter Pecan
- Peanut Butter Fudge
- Bacio (chocolate with hazelnut)
But of course, being the ice cream experts that they are, they know they can't just stack those flavors together willy-nilly. There are rules. In particular, they have the following requirements:
- Cookies & Cream cannot be above two or more layers.
- Mocha Chip cannot be anywhere below Bacio.
- Butter Pecan and Cookies & Cream cannot touch.
- Peanut Butter Fudge must be above two or more layers.
- Mocha chip cannot be anywhere above Cookies & Cream.
- Butter Pecan cannot be on the top or the bottom layer.
- Bacio and Butter Pecan cannot touch.
Given these requirements, which flavors should they use in their four-layer cake, and in what order?
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Previous Puzzle - 🔀 Tangled Up In Clue
Puzzle
Each of the clues below is a word that precedes or follows a three-letter word. The arrows pointing to the column on the right tell you where to put each of the three letters from your answer (in order). Your goal is to fill in the vertical column with eight letters such that all of the clues are answered correctly.
Solution [SPOILER]
The solution is P B A N U E T N, to make:
- Man BUN
- PET Name
- Baseball BAT
- Fountain PEN
- Dead PAN
- Wing NUT