Can anyone solve this riddle and also show me how he/she solved it??

Question

Footnote to the Wisden

Amount cricketers who made their county debut last year were Messsrs, Glide, Cutt, Broomhandle, and Stonewall. All are amateurs. They earn their living (not necessarily respectively) as accountant, farmer, engineer, and poet and the counties for which they play are (in alphabetical order) Domeshire, Holmshire, Loamshire, and Muddlesex.
Geoffrey Glide and the engineer are both spin bowlers. Blake Broomhandle keeps wicket for muddlesex; the poet is a wicket keeper, too. Sam Stonewall scored a century against Loamshire. Charlie Cutt did even better against Holmshire, scoring 219 not out; playing against Loamashire, he stumped four of his opponents.
There is no farmer in the muddlesex team.
What is the name of the engineer, and for which county does he play?

Answer 1

This is a logic problem and you can set it up on a table, eliminating what you know about the people. It's difficult to describe in words but here is a link.


http://www.puzzles.com/Projects/LogicProblems/HolidayVacation.htm

Here is an example of how you set up a grid to match all the info against all the other info. What is left, is the only possible answers. So what you have to do, is draw out a table with YOUR variables and cross them against each other, then answer the individual questions. The website link will explain more.

Answer 2

Glide-----spinner.
Broomhandle-----wicketkeeper
Cutt------wicketkeeper, because he stumped 4 of his opponents.
there are 2 spinners.....
thus
Stonewall-------spinner and the other spinner is engineer.....
thus engineer's name is Sam Stonewall.


Now county team.......
Broomhandle----middlesex

Cutt-------Domeshire....becoz he played against Holmshire and Loamshire and he can't be from middlesex.....

Stonewall----Holmshire....beco... he played against Loamshire and can't be from middlesex and domeshire........

Glide-----Loamshire.....last 1

Thus engineer's name is Sam Stonewall and he plays for Holmshire county.......;-)