Gigi's Logic Puzzles

This Week's Exciting Puzzle: The Firemen's Fundraiser

This puzzle appeared in Volume 80, Issue 3 (June 4, 1999) of mathNEWS.


A team of local firemen got together to raise money for charity. These hunks volunteered to shave their heads, after trying to grow their hair long for one month. Can you figure out each fireman's name, hair colour, achieved hair length, type of facial hair, the amount he collected for charity, and the order in which each person's head was shaved? (You may assume that the female firefighters did an alternative activity to raise money for charity.)


  1. The six people are: Lister; the person with black hair; the person with both a moustache and a beard; the person who collected $35; the person whose hair is 11" long; and the third person to get their head shaved.
  2. The blond fireman (who has no facial hair) was shaved immediately after the purple-haired fireman.
  3. The person with blue hair collected $40, and was not shaved fifth.
  4. The third-shortest hair is twice the length of the shortest hair (which is an even number).
  5. All money collected is in multiples of $5, and each amount is unique. The total collected was $240.
  6. The first two people shaved both had moustaches only.
  7. Mike had his head shaved after the person with blue hair, who was shaved immediately after one of the two people with no facial hair.
  8. The blond fireman has hair 4"longer than the fireman with purple hair.
  9. The lowest amount of money collected (by the fireman with both the beard and moustache) is half the second-highest amount collected.
  10. The fireman with red hair has both a moustache and beard.
  11. The person who collected $60 had no facial hair, and did not have the longest hair.
  12. Only one person has a beard but no moustache. This person had his head shaved before the brunette.
  13. The person with 17" hair was shaved immediately before Dan, who was shaved before the person with only a beard.
  14. Neither Chris nor Fred (who collected the least amount of money) has black hair.
  15. The person with only a beard does not have blond hair.
  16. The person with 15" hair collected more money than Rimmer, who collected $15 more than the person who was shaved last.
  17. The highest amount of money collected is twice the second-lowest amount collected (which was not by the fireman shaved first).
  18. Chris had longer hair than the second person shaved, whose hair was 3" longer than the redhead's.
  19. The fireman with brown hair also had the shortest hair, and had no moustache.
  20. The person whose head was shaved fifth had longer hair than both the person shaved immediately before him and the person shaved after him.
  21. The second-longest hair is three times the length of the second-shortest hair, which is not red.
  22. Chris collected $10 more than Rimmer. Neither of them have brown hair.


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