Grade 8 Logic Puzzles

Grade 8 Logic Puzzles

Read each logic puzzle carefully and use the clues to find the solution. Show your work or reasoning where applicable.

The Five Houses Puzzle

There are five houses in a row, each of a different color and inhabited by a person of a different nationality, with a different pet, drink, and car. Use the clues below to determine who owns the fish.

Clues:

1. The Brit lives in the red house. 2. The Swede has a dog. 3. The Dane drinks tea. 4. The green house is immediately to the left of the white house. 5. The green house owner drinks coffee. 6. The person who drives a Porsche owns birds. 7. The owner of the yellow car drinks water. 8. The man in the middle house drinks milk. 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house. 10. The man who drives a Ferrari lives next to the man with cats. 11. The man with horses lives next to the man who drives a Porsche. 12. The owner who drives a BMW drinks beer. 13. The German drives a Lamborghini. 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. 15. The man who drives a Ferrari has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the fish?

Complete the sequence by identifying the pattern:

1. 1, 4, 9, 16, 25,  ,  

2. 2, 6, 12, 20, 30,  ,  

3. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,  ,  

1. I have cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish. What am I?

2. What has to be broken before you can use it?

Determine if the following statements are true or false.

1. All squares are rectangles.

2. If a figure has four sides, it is a parallelogram.