Query

From Gerald Lynton Kaufman’s The Book of Modern Puzzles (1954):

  1. All DROONS are the same size and shape.
  2. All green SLACKENS are the same size and shape.
  3. Twenty DROONS just fill up a MULDRUFF.
  4. All WALLAXES contain green SLACKENS.
  5. A green SLACKEN is 10% bigger than a DROON.
  6. A WALLAX is smaller than a MULDRUFF.

“If all MULDRUFFS and all WALLAXES are predominantly RED throughout, what is the largest possible number of green SLACKENS in a WALLAX?”

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