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Puzzle #175: Can you help Ms Gale assign roles for her “mathemusical”?

By Brian Hobbs

6 July 2022

#175 Wizard of odds

The students at Yellow Brick High School for Girls couldn’t decide if their maths and drama teacher, Ms Gale, was a genius or just overworked when she announced the new school play, a “mathemusical” called The Wizard of Odds. But the real challenge, as usual, was in the casting, and the parents, students and faculty had various demands, summed up as follows:

1. If Megan doesn’t get the lead role, Dorothree, then Kasey will play either the Square Crow or the Ten Man.

2. If neither Leah nor Nicki are the Cowardly Line, Jane will…

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