Peculiar Pirate Pet Puzzle - Helpful Hint three

Look at all the clues and you can find out where Jack’s pet comes in the grid. 

Peculiar Pirate Pet Puzzle - helpful hint two

Ahoy there, shipmates! Here’s another hint to my peculiar pirate pet puzzle.

Mary’s pet is bigger than Blackbeard’s. So it has to be either the shark or the blue whale. Cross off the weevil and the parrot for Mary!

Peculiar Pirate Pet Puzzle - helpful hint one!

How are you getting on with the puzzle, shipmates?

Here's some help if you're stuck. 

Blackbeard’s pet cannot be the largest pet - a blue whale - because Blackbeard’s pet smaller than Jack’s. It can’t be the second biggest either - shark - because Mary’s pet is also bigger. So there are at least two pets bigger than Blackbeard’s. If you’re using the grid you can put two crosses in. 

Hint two coming up soon!

Peculiar Pirate Pet Puzzle!

Four pirates have different pets. Work out which pet belongs to which pirate.

1. Blackbeard’s pet is smaller than Calico Jack’s.

2. Mary’s pet is bigger than Blackbeard’s.

3. Jack’s pet is bigger than Henry’s.

4. Mary’s pet is smaller than Henry’s.

I used a grid like this to work out the answers.

	weevil	parrot	shark	blue whale
Blackbeard	.	.	*.	.
Calico Jack	.	.	.	.
Mary Bonney	.	.	.	.
Henry Morgan	.	.	.	.

I’ll give you the answers next week.

Good luck, shipmates!

The problems with being a time travelling pirate 4

Pirates don’t know much about school so when I mentioned I’d got in trouble with my teacher for kicking a football and breaking a window, I thought I’d be all right. The crew were surprised that a farmer’s son went to school but they loved the story of how my ball landed in the fish tank (the fish were all right). Then I made my big mistake. I told them my teacher’s name – Miss Elliot. They all gawped at me. ‘Your teacher is a woman?’ growled Harry Hopp suspiciously. I’d forgotten that in 1706 all the teachers were men. I quickly said that of course my teacher wasn’t a woman. His name was Mister Misselliot!