System ThinkingGroup Challenge

Systems Thinking

There are 5 houses of 5 different colors.

One person of a different nationality lives in each house.

The 5 persons drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigarette and have a certain pet.

None has the same animal, smokes the same brand or drinks the same beverage.

Systems Thinking

Hints    : 1. The Englishman lives in the red house.

2 .The Sweedish person has a dog. 3. The Danish person drinks tea. 4.The green house is to the left of the white house 5. The person in the green house drinks coffee. 6.The person who smokes Players, raises birds. 7.The person in the yellow house smokes Export A. 8.The man living in the house in the middle drinks milk. 9.The Norwegian lives in the first house. 10.The man who smokes Dumaurier lives beside the one who has cats. 11.The man who has horses lives beside the one who smokes Export A. 12.The man who smokes Rothmans drinks beer. 13.The German smokes Cigarello 14.The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. 15.The man who smokes Dumaurier has a neighbour who drinks water.

Question  : Who has a fish?

Systems Thinking

• 7 Groups• 20 Minutes• Collaborative resolution • Poll of groups for solution• Quick recap of thought process and how solution

was obtained• Challenges (group dynamics, types of learners, etc)

Systems Thinking

The German owns the fish and the table below details the full answer:

Nationality: Norweg Dane Brit German Swede Colour : Yellow Blue Red Green White Beverage : water tea milk coffee beer Smokes : Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master Pet : cats horses birds fish dogs

More Complex ThinkingThe four people in this puzzle all competed in different classes of dog agility at a recent competition. The competitions all required the dogs to run over jumps, through tunnels and various other obstacles in as quicker time as possible. Each had a different result - one came first, one third, one fourth and one ninth. All four dogs were each of a different breed.

Can you work out who handled which dog, at what level each competed, the place each finished in and the breed of each dog?

1. If Tiff finished first then Terry finished fourth.2. If Terry finished fourth then Jago is a collie otherwise Jago is not a collie.3. If Jane competed in the Senior class then she finished third.4. If Jane competed in Novice then she finished fourth.5. The dog that finished ninth was an alsatian. This was either Jago, in which case Jago competed in the Elementary class, or this was Kelly, in which case Terry handled Kelly.6. Mark won Starters.7. If Mark's dog is called Patti then Patti is a labrador otherwise Patti is a collie.8. Ruth's dog is called Jago.9. If Jago finished fourth then she competed in the Novice class otherwise she competed in the Senior class.10. If Patti finished first then Terry's dog is an alsatian otherwise Terry's dog is a collie.11. If Jane's dog is a doberman then Jane finished fourth otherwise Jane finished third. Handler's Names: Jane, Mark, Ruth and TerryDog's Names: Tiff, Patti, Jago and KellyBreed: Alsatian, Collie, Labrador and DobermanLevel: Starters, Elementary, Novice or Senior