PUZZLE 1 (second leg)

TO BE HANDED OR E-MAILED BY 25th OF JANUARY 2010 

Three people whose surnames are White, Red and Black happen to meet at a party. Shortly after introducing themselves, the lady says:

-‘It’s funny that our surnames are White, Red and Black and that there are here three people whose hair colours are exactly those three colours’.

The red-haired person answers:

-‘Yes, it really is but you have probably noticed that none of us has the colour corresponding to our surnames’.

-‘True!’ says the person called White.

If the lady hasn’t got black hair,  who has it red?

  

S O L U T I O N

Mr/Ms White hasn’t got red haired because he/she speaks after the one who is red-haired. He/She hasn’t got white hair because this is his family name so he/she has black hair.

Mr/Ms Red has neither red nor black hair so this is the white-haired person.

 The only possibility is for the person called Black to be red-haired. Apart from that the lady can neither be called White nor Black, who answers to her. Thus she is called Red.

SOLUTION: The person who has red hair is Mr. Black.