Last week, we celebrated Star Wars Day (aka May the Fourth) with a Jedi-themed brain teaser for our fellow puzzlers and PuzzleNationers to solve!
How do you crack this Star Wars-inspired Jedi mystery? Let’s find out together!
On a small planet in the Mid Rim, a group of Jedi defeated several squads of battle droids. Reporters had a hard time piecing together descriptions of the five Jedi who saved the day, even after interviewing many witnesses.
The only thing the reporters were sure of? The names of the five Jedi:
- Drosco Wrs
- Ko Duus
- Pramyt Gorc
- Wendo Grars
- Seredwok
Each of the Jedi wielded a different color lightsaber (green, yellow, blue, orange, or purple). Each held a different title within the Jedi Order (Padawan, Knight, Master, Instructor, or Council Member). And each of them was a different species (Barabel, Bith, Nautolan, Twi’lek, or Wookiee).
Based on the information gathered below, can you figure out which lightsaber color, title, and species belongs with which Jedi?
1. Drosco Wrs (whose lightsaber is either orange or green) is neither the padawan nor the knight.
2. Either Ko Duus or the Bith is the council member, and the other has the yellow lightsaber.
3. The Jedi with the blue lightsaber (who isn’t on the council) is either the Twi’lek or the Wookiee; if Twi’lek, then Drosco Wrs is the instructor, but if Wookiee, then Seredwok is the instructor.
4. The padawan (who has neither the blue lightsaber nor the green lightsaber) is not Seredwok.
5. Wendo Grars (who isn’t the knight) doesn’t have the yellow lightsaber or the blue lightsaber.
6. The Barabel (who is either Pramyt or Seredwok) isn’t the Jedi with the purple lightsaber.
7. The master has either the purple lightsaber or the yellow lightsaber. Neither the purple lightsaber nor the yellow lightsaber are wielded by the Nautolan.
So, where do we begin?
Well, there’s a lot of information here about the lightsabers, and that’s where we can start.
We know that the Nautolan doesn’t have the purple or yellow lightsabers (rule 7) or the blue lightsaber (rule 3). Similarly, we know that the Barabel doesn’t have the purple lightsaber (rule 6) or the blue lightsaber (rule 3). But we can also deduce that it doesn’t have the yellow lightsaber, because either Ko Duus or the Bith have the yellow lightsaber (rule 2), and Ko Duus isn’t a Barabel (rule 6).
That means the green and orange lightsabers are split between the Nautolan and the Barabel. That also means that Drosco Wrs is either the Nautolan or the Barabel, because his lightsaber is either green or orange (rule 1). But since he can’t be the Barabel (rule 6), Drosco Wrs is the Nautolan.
Let’s start our chart there:
But we know more about Drosco Wrs. He is neither the padawan nor the knight (rule 1) and according to his lightsaber color, he is not the master (rule 7). He is also not the council member, who must be the Bith or Ko Duus (rule 2), so he is the instructor.
Because he is the instructor, we now also know that the Twi’lek has the blue lightsaber (rule 3).
We also know that the Jedi with the blue lightsaber isn’t the padawan (rule 4), the master (rule 7), the council member (rule 4), or the instructor (since Drosco Wrs is the instructor and his lightsaber is either green or orange). That means that the blue lightsaber is with a Twi’lek who is a knight.
Let’s update our chart:
If we return to the Barabel, according to our chart they’re not the knight or the instructor, and they can’t be the master based on their possible lightsaber color. So they’re either the padawan or the council member. But the council member is either Ko Duus or the Bith (rule 2), and Ko Duus can’t be a Barabel (rule 6). So the Barabel must be the padawan.
And since Seredwok isn’t the padawan (rule 4), Pramyt Groc is the Barabel and the padawan.
But that’s not all. We know that the Barabel’s lightsaber is either green or orange, and the padawan’s lightsaber can’t be green (rule 4), so we have our first complete row.
It’s taken a lot of work to get here, but now things are rolling.
Drosco Wrs, our Nautolan instructor, could only have a green or orange lightsaber (rule 1), and since orange is the padawan’s color, we now know his lightsaber is green.
So green, blue, and orange are all accounted for, and the council member cannot have a yellow lightsaber (rule 2), so the council member has a purple lightsaber, and the master has a yellow lightsaber.
Wendo Grars can’t have orange, blue, or green, based on our chart, nor can she have yellow (rule 5), so she has the purple lightsaber, making her the council member.
Our chart is looking pretty full now:
Since Wendo Grars is the council member, Ko Duus must be the wielder of the yellow lightsaber (rule 2), which also makes Wendo Grars the Bith.
And process of elimination gives us one name left — Seredwok — and one species left — Wookiee — to assign.
So our completed chart looks like this:
Oh, we also hid a little puzzly easter egg in this puzzle. Each of our Jedi names were anagrams of popular puzzles:
- Drosco Wrs = Crossword
- Ko Duus = Sudoku
- Pramyt Gorc = Cryptogram
- Wendo Grars = Rows Garden
- Seredwok = Word Seek
Did you manage to unravel this devious Jedi-themed logic puzzle? Did you spot the wordplay in the Jedi names? Let us know in the comments section below! We’d love to hear from you.
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