1. ‘The IB genie’

2. ‘The IB genie’ is a deduction puzzle.
Your task is to determine: which friend wished on which day, and for what?
Hint: Sunday comes first
Pay attention to your process, in order to answer the following questions:
As you were solving the puzzle, how did you know if you made a mistake?
How did you know that you solved the puzzle successsfully?

3. Follow up questions
What is the name given to the approach of testing many lamps and reaching a general conclusions about them? (hint: the name you want is included in the poem)
When you solved the puzzle, you knew things you did not know before. How did you achieve that new knowledge? How did the approach differ from the one in question 1?

4. Solution to IB genie puzzle
Sunday
Chiara
eloquence
Monday
Lee
Empathy
Tuesday
Paul
Athletic prowess
Wednesday
Tim
rationality
Thursday
Maimouna
Essay skills
Friday
Christina
Understanding self
Saturday
Omar
singing amazingly