Some people think that football is a matter of life and death... I can assure them that it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly, Scottish Footballer, in Sunday Times 4 October 1981

As I am typing this, we are in halftime of France versus Romania, the opening match of the UEFA Euro 2016 European championship finals. As a football fan living in Europe, it became clear to me weeks ago, that this week's puzzle needed to be football themed. Since the wordplay madness that is Mikalye's Riddle Dungeon is going on simultaneously with this one, it seemed appropriate that this is a logic problem this week.

The prize this week is the obvious enough Kopanito - All Star Soccer

It is in three parts, parts one is here
part two is here
and part three is here

Enjoy,
Mikalye

8 years ago*

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Are you a football fan?

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Anything less than Aussie rules football is for wimps
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Corrections/Errata

  • The original text said that there were three goalless draws in part 3, instead there were 4. The problem was corrected at around 07:30 GMT on 11 June. I apologise for the error.
  • Thanks to Adelion who noted that I had spelled Egypt as Eqypt three times in puzzle 3 for no obvious reason. This has now been fixed.
  • Thanks to Kuzurreesh and to malabagaa that noted that the stats on the Namibia goals were not correct. This has now been fixed.

Hints

Reserved for what might come.

Solutions

Not yet, you know its not yet.

8 years ago*
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There's an error in the third problem. There are 4 goalless draws, not 3

8 years ago*
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Quite correct. Added to the errata and fixed in the problem.

8 years ago
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The goals against Namibia are wrong as well, Should be 9 at home and 17 away.

8 years ago
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Yes, sadly you are correct. I have updated the errata section on the puzzle's first comment and I have fixed the error by altering the puzzle.

8 years ago*
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Not much of a problem when solving it on computer(since you can check your answers immediately), you won't even notice it, when going by clue order.
I only noticed it since I'm doing it on paper and couldn't check my answers.

edit: My written down clue order was different. :P

8 years ago
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This is my twenty-third(or possibly twenty-fourth) puzzle of 2016 after:
22nd A Strangely Attractive Puzzle
21st Mikalye's Riddle Dungeon which is running simultaneously with this puzzle
20th Alphablocks
19th A Collection of Classy Characters
18th World Series
17th Seeing Things from Every Angler
16th Shaggy Dogs
15th Just Follow Directions
14th A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games

8 years ago
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I'm not completely done with Part 3 but I have at least four goalless draws.

8 years ago
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same here

8 years ago
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Quite correct. Added to the errata and fixed in the problem.

8 years ago
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This puzzle is pretty good. Also a wishlisted game so i am in. :)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved!

8 years ago
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Bump!

8 years ago
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Bump for finding error in the 3rd one. There are not three goalless draws as written in the description.

Edit: Oh, and I see Adelion had already posted that.

8 years ago
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Quite correct. Added to the errata and fixed in the problem.

8 years ago
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Solved for bump, btw. :)

8 years ago
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For part 3 just refer to table one..?

8 years ago
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Goal!

8 years ago
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Bump for GOOOOOOOAAAAAL!

8 years ago
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Part 1 and 2 solved.

8 years ago
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Gooo-mp!

8 years ago
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Bump for solved ! :)

8 years ago
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Congrats

8 years ago
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Well must be honest that it took me a while, thank you :)

8 years ago
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Bump for solved!!

8 years ago
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Bump for solved!

8 years ago
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Bump for forced....uh, solved! :P

8 years ago
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bump!

8 years ago
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About 13 hours to go.

8 years ago
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bump for solved

8 years ago
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Bump for scored!

8 years ago
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Bump for about 8 hours left..

8 years ago
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Bump for solved :)

8 years ago
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