From the introduction, the Mall Mini-Merry-Go-Round has six animals, one
each at 12:00, 10:00, 8:00, 6:00, 4:00, and 2:00, so that the one at 12:00
is directly opposite the 6:00 one, etc.; the horses travel in a
counterclockwise direction. By clue 5, the animal Jeff rode immediately
follows the elephant and immediately precedes the red one; We will
arbitrarily place Jeff at 12:00, the elephant at 10:00, and the red wooden
animal at 2:00. By clue 7, the animal Faith rode immediately precedes
the dolphin. So, combining clues 5 and 7, either 1) Faith rode the animal
at 10:00 with the dolphin at 12:00, Faith rode the animal at 6:00 with the
dolphin at 8:00, 3) Faith rode the animal at 4:00 with the dolphin at 6:00,
or 4) Faith rode the red animal at 2:00 with the dolphin at 4:00. Trying
possibility 1), Heather would have ridden the animal at 4:00 with the
elephant then blue (clue 2). By clue 8, Courtney would have been on the
animal at 6:00, with the dolphin ridden by Jeff then white. Then by clue
3, Ian would have been on the animal at 8:00, with Courtney on the
Zebra--no (11). So, possibility 1) cannot work. Trying possibility 2), by
clue 2, Heather would have ridden the elephant at 10:00 or the animal at
4:00. If Heather had ridden the elephant and the animal at 4:00 were blue
(2), by clue 8, Courtney would have been on the blue animal, with the elephant
being white. Jeff's mount would be purple (7), and the dolphin would be green
(4). However, clue 9 cannot work given this arrangement. If Heather had
ridden the animal at 4:00 with the elephant then blue (2), Courtney would have
ridden the elephant and Heather the white mount (8). By clue 7, Jeff's ride
would have been purple, with the dolphin then green (4). However, clue 9 also
cannot work given this arrangement. Therefore, possibility 2) cannot work.
Trying possibility 4), by clue 2, Heather would have been on the animal at
6:00 or the dolphin at 4:00. If Heather had been on the animal at 6:00,
Jeff would have been on the blue one (2). Since the three boys weren't on
consecutive animals (1), the three girls can't have been on consecutive animals,
and Courtney then wouldn't have been on the dolphin; by clue 8, she would
have ridden the elephant, with the dolphin then white. By clue 9, Greg would
have had the mount at 8:00, with Heather's being green. Ian would have ridden
the white dolphin--no (3). If Heather had ridden the dolphin at 4:00, the
elephant would be blue (2). Since by clue 1 Courtney wouldn't have been at
6:00, by clue 8, Courtney would have ridden the blue elephant with the
dolphin being white. By clue 9, Greg would have ridden the mount at 8:00,
with the green one at 6:00--ridden by Ian. However, clue 3 cannot work
given this arrangement. Therefore, possibility 4) also fails and we have
possibility 3) left: the dolphin is at 6:00 and Faith rode the animal at 4:00.
By clue 8, Courtney rode the dolphin or the elephant. If Courtney had ridden
the dolphin, Jeff's mount would have been white (8). By clue 1, Heather would
have ridden the elephant, with Faith's animal then blue (2). Greg would have
been on the mount at 8:00, and the dolphin would be green (9). Ian would have
ridden the red animal, with the zebra then the white one (3)--no (3). So,
Courtney didn't ride the dolphin and rode the elephant. Faith was on the
white animal (8). By clue 3, Ian was on the red animal and Jeff on the zebra.
Greg rode the animal at 8:00, following the green dolphin (9) by elimination
ridden by Heather. Jeff's zebra is blue (2). By clue 10, the elephant is
black and Greg's mount purple. Greg wasn't on the tiger (9) or wolf (10)
and was on the giraffe. Faith rode the wolf and Ian the tiger (6). In sum,
the six Zoolander children rode the Mall Mini-Merry-Go-Round as follows (in
counterclockwise order):
- Jeff on the blue zebra
- Courtney on the black elephant
- Greg on the purple giraffe
- Heather on the green dolphin
- Faith on the white wolf
- Ian on the red tiger
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