Answers!

All right, look, Mr. Feeny, I have a question that I'm going to need a yes or no answer to: how many people get into Yale every year?

Are you the type of person who would ask a question like this? Then Yahoo! answers is the place for you! "It's the one place where the world shares what they know to help each other out. And it's all for free!"

Unfortunately, Yahoo!! answers isn't as great as its description would seem. Back a couple years ago, when it was created, it was pretty useful. People would ask each other things like "where can I buy a Wii?" and others would reply "nowhere." Ever since, however, it has been deteriorating. Slowly, people started finding other things to do on Yahoo! answers, that ruined the idea of friends helping friends, or whatever its supposed to be.

The first problem was actually caused by Yahoo! itself. All Yahoo! answers users were given points based on how many questions they answer, and the more points they had, the more advantages they could reap, including a limit to how many questions you can ask when you have under a certain score. At first glance, this seems fine, because it would encourage people to answer questions, but in reality, its pretty bad. Instead of genuinely answering questions, people started posting random words or quick and obviously incorrect responses as answers, just to get the points:

Q - What is the biggest prime number that has been found by humans?
A - 7. (you have received 2 points for answering this question)

With all these points, the annoying people had the world at their hands! They could do things like ask for the answer to their homework, insult their parents, and even make questions out of random statements so that they and other people could get points for them! Between all these, Yahoo! answers became pretty dumb. Yahoo! has done a few things over the years to try to fix this, to no avail: first, they let people rate answers (of course, rating an answer gave you a point), then they had well-known people ask questions to try to get people to give serious answers.

This problem, however, can be solved easily: make people pay for asking questions, as in Google answers!

Ya, okay, I basically wanted to insult Yahoo! a bit. Maybe I'll try it again sometime.

Anyway, I came up with a better logic problem, that hopefully Jon won't ruin by posting a solution to it. gl hf dd

Santa has a very bad memory for vocabulary. As such, he made a 4x4 list of some Christmas-related words, so that he could remember them. To help him remember them, he made sure that no word on his list had any letters in common with any of its neighbors (any of the words exactly one space horizontally, vertically, or diagonally from it). He also invented some other rules for fun:

1. The letter E is not in any word in the third row from the top or the column that is farthest left.
2. The word log is in the top row.
3. The word fern is in the bottom right position.
4. The word fun is in the same row as the word holly, but is 2 columns to the right of it.
5. The words nut, pudding and bow, are in the same column.
6. The words star and kev are in the same column, but star is higher up than kev is.
7. Both the words sack and card are higher than the word eve, and sack is to the left of card.
8. The letter H cannot be found in the third row from the top.

The words on his list are:

Jolly
Kev (I'm not quite sure what a kev is, but I found it in a random list of Christmassy words)
Log
Star
White
Mask
Nut
Pudding
Card
Fun
Bow
Cupid
Fern
Eve
Holly
Sack

Your task is to put the words in the same positions on a 4x4 list as Santa did. Good Luck!