{"id":343,"date":"2007-10-16T05:54:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/343"},"modified":"2008-09-06T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:20:26","slug":"conundrum-primary-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/343","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum: Primary Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may want to use a <a href=http:\/\/www.bicsi.org\/Training\/Licensed\/united-states-map.gif target=_blank>map<\/a> for this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the 2008 Republican primaries are over, and only four candidates won any states.  (DC, which is not a state, went to Ron Paul.)<\/p>\n<p>1. Mitt Romney won more states than any other candidate.  <\/p>\n<p>2. Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s states included Massachusetts and Washington.  <\/p>\n<p>3. John McCain won all of the states beginning with one particular letter, and only those states.  <\/p>\n<p>4. Fred Thompson&#8217;s states included New Mexico.  <\/p>\n<p>5. Strangely enough, no two bordering states went for the same candidate.  (Four Corners does not count as a border.) <\/p>\n<p><em>Who won in Michigan?  How do you know?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Puzzle solved by David.  See comments for solution.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--6fb57295b419dfca0472aad9267080f0--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may want to use a map for this one&#8230; Imagine the 2008 Republican primaries are over, and only four candidates won any states. (DC, which is not a state, went to Ron Paul.) 1. Mitt Romney won more states than any other candidate. 2. Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s states included Massachusetts and Washington. 3. John McCain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,60,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conundrum","category-logic-problem","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}