Logic Grid Puzzle: Something Borrowed

Eileen is marrying Mr. Goode, and Mr. Dunworthy and Polly have come for the wedding! Mr. Goode has a lucky sixpence that saw him through the war, but who gave Eileen “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”?

Clues:

1. The 4 gifters were Polly, the person who gave something stolen, the person who gave the locket, and the person who gave “something blue”.

2. Of Binnie and Alf, one gave the hanky and the other gave “something new”.

3. The person who gave the stolen gift is not Binnie.

4. Either the person who gave the veil or the person who gave the wedding clothes provided the “something old” present.

5. Of Binnie and Polly, one gave “something borrowed” and the other gave the gift that was purchased.

6. Alf did not give the gift that was inherited.

7. The “something old” present was either inherited or stolen.

8. The person who gave the veil gave a gift that was inherited or purchased.

9. The person who purchased their gift either gave “something new” or “something blue”.

10. Either Polly or Mr. Dunworthy gave the veil.

11. Of Alf and Polly, one gave the locket and the other gave the gift that was “something borrowed”.

So the puzzle grid and solution table look like:

A printable image of the puzzle sheet can be found here (portrait mode) or here (landscape mode).

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Sholio on Chapter 1 Tue 16 Nov 2021 04:11AM UTC

Oh, this was terrific fun! I really enjoyed working it out; it took me right back to doing these as a kid, and having printable sheets was also very convenient and handy. You must have put a ton of work into this, and it was a lot of fun!

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1. drayton on Chapter 1 Fri 26 Nov 2021 06:07AM UTC
  
  I'll admit there was a point where I thought, "I could have written the fic equivalent for this by now--twice", but it's strangely addictive. Thanks for commenting!
  
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lurking_latinist on Chapter 1 Fri 19 Nov 2021 05:30AM UTC

This is amazing! I haven't been able to work it out as I haven't printed it, but just reading the clues made me smile.

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1. drayton on Chapter 1 Fri 26 Nov 2021 06:07AM UTC
  
  Hee. Thanks!
  
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Silvereye on Chapter 1 Sun 21 Nov 2021 01:14PM UTC

This one was tricky! Took me a while even when using an online solver. Which is to say, it was a lot of fun. :D

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1. drayton on Chapter 1 Fri 26 Nov 2021 06:08AM UTC
  
  Great! I was afraid it might be too easy and seemed to have erred in the opposite direction. Glad you liked it!
  
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sheron on Chapter 2 Sun 21 Nov 2021 10:04PM UTC

This is really neat!!

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1. drayton on Chapter 2 Fri 26 Nov 2021 06:09AM UTC
  
  Thanks!
  
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scintilla10 on Chapter 2 Wed 24 Nov 2021 06:06AM UTC

This was super fun, and I really enjoyed working it out! I chortled a little when I uncovered that Mr Dunworthy [redacted]. ;D

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1. drayton on Chapter 2 Fri 26 Nov 2021 06:09AM UTC
  
  I chortled about [redacted] the whole time I was making this puzzle. Thanks for commenting!
  
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lirin on Chapter 2 Fri 26 Nov 2021 06:47AM UTC

This was fantastic, thank you so much!
First of all, I am totally here for the idea of Mr. Dunworthy & Polly finding a way to come to Eileen's wedding! It's after the war so hopefully nobody has any remaining deadlines to have to watch out for...I suppose there's the tiny little question of why don't they tell them when and where they'll get the message to Colin, but that's a small consideration in the face of getting to have them there!
And then having them provide the four "somethings" from the poem is a very nice detail that works so well in the puzzle context, and I like the supplementary detail of her groom providing the sixpence for her shoe (and that he had it with him throughout the war—definitely lucky!).
And oh my, Mr. Dunworthy! :-) I wonder, did he make off with something from the wardrobe department? (This is also making me wonder how "something old" works in the context of time travel! Does it count for the rhyme if he brings something along with him that would be considered "old" in his time, or does it have to be distinctly pre-1940s as well?) I also love the mental image of Binnie saving up carefully to buy her mom a brand new blue hanky! Having Eileen in her life made such an enormous difference for her and she knows it (hence how stressed she gets when she thinks she's going to lose that), and I feel like she'd really care about doing her part to make it a special day even if she doesn't have a lot of money.
This was a very fun puzzle, with a very sweet and enjoyable theme. Thank you very much for creating it for me!

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1. drayton on Chapter 2 Fri 26 Nov 2021 07:25AM UTC
  
  I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and yes, Dunworthy made off with something from the wardrobe department. Wardrobe thinks he's bringing the costumes back, but he's going to report them lost/damaged to avoid awkward questions. He gave some thought to the persisting post-WWII shortages, so instead of bringing something fancy they wouldn't be likely to wear often, both of them have suits made from good-quality cloth, just a tad worn and just a bit out-of-date so other people will perceive the clothes as being made before war-related shortages set in. So the clothes are "something old" but also "something futuristic". (Okay, that's a lot of rationalization for Alf *not* being the one who stole a gift.)
  As for why they didn't tell them when/how they got the message to Colin--using Willisian logic, since Binnie clearly didn't know where to find Colin when she actually did, Mr. Dunworthy decided they couldn't pass along that information.
  Glad you enjoyed it!
  
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