Say Uncle

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Happy National Aunts and Uncles’ Day! The Pickleton family is celebrating by having a big reunion…but is there more than meets the eye regarding this event? Rumor has it that the Pickletons are actually secret agents running a dangerous operation! To investigate further, untangle the Pickleton family tree, deduce their secret spy passwords, and then figure out where in San Francisco their rendezvous is taking place!

Pippa and Polly are:
cousins
Perseus and Pete are:
cousins
Patience and Poppy are:
cousins
Pascal and Powell are:
cousins
Pavel and Praynaa are:
cousins
Penelope and Puck are:
cousins
Pablo and Powell are:
cousins
Perdita and Philip are:
cousins
Pieter and Priya are:
cousins
Pedro and Perdita are:
cousins
Paris and Patricia are:
cousins
Philomena and Potter are:
cousins
Penn and Powell are:
cousins
pg. 1 of 2 - NOTES ON THE PICKLETON FAMILY
  • All of the marriages in the Pickleton family are heterosexual and monogamous, and no two members of the Pickleton family have the same first name.
  • The female Pickletons are: Peggy, Pippa, Polly, Patience, Poppy, Praynaa, Penelope, Perdita, Priya, Paris, Patricia, and Philomena.
  • The male Pickletons are: Paul, Perseus, Pete, Pascal, Powell, Pavel, Puck, Pablo, Philip, Pieter, Pedro, Potter, Percy, Parker, Prithvi, and Penn.
  • Other than Paul and Peggy, they are all married to non-Pickletons (i.e. the family tree is not incestuous).
  • Pascal has two brothers and no sisters, and one nephew named Puck.
  • If Pablo is Puck's son, then Pieter is Puck's father.
  • Patricia's only son-in-law is older than Powell is.
  • Pippa has two children more than her uncle Percy does.
  • If Powell is Patricia's son-in-law, then Parker is Pavel's son-in-law.
  • Percy's granddaughter Patricia has two grandchildren of her own, Perdita and Pete.
  • Patricia either has an Uncle Parker or a Great-Uncle Parker on her maternal side.
  • Puck is the great-great-grandson of Paul.
  • Poppy is the daughter of either Percy or Pippa.
  • If Percy and Parker are siblings, then Powell and Polly are siblings as well.
  • Prithvi's oldest brother is either named Percy, Puck, or Pablo.
  • If Perseus is Philomena's son, then Pete is Puck's son.
  • Puck's great-grandson is Paris's brother.
  • Pedro is a descendant of Pippa by blood ancestry.
  • If Pete is Priya's father, then Penelope is Priya's only daughter.
  • Paris's father and paternal grandfather are named Pablo and Pedro, not necessarily in that order.
  • Puck's daughter is unmarried.
  • Peggy's great-great-great-grandchildren include Perdita, Pablo, Patience, and one other person.
  • Patience's only sibling has two sons, Penn and Pedro.
  • Prithvi's son-in-law is either Puck's grandfather or Peggy's grandfather.
  • Philip's mother is either Perdita or Pippa.
  • Prithvi has at most three grandchildren.
  • If Perdita has any children, then Percy has exactly two children.
  • Patricia's great-grandchildren include two of the following four people: Priya, Paris, Parker, and Philomena.
  • Paul has no daughters.
  • Either Pippa's father or Patricia's father (or both) is an only child.
  • Penn's aunt Patience and grandfather Puck are both on his paternal side.
  • Either Perseus or Pavel is Philomena's only child.
  • Praynaa's mother is Penelope.
  • If Pete is Pavel's grandfather, then Powell is Priya's paternal grandfather.
  • Pascal's mother is either Pippa or Peggy.
  • Of Paul's three children and three grandchildren, two of the six are named Prithvi and Potter.
  • Paris's only brother is either named Perseus or Pavel.

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Note: This puzzle was updated on Monday, July 31, with corrections to pg. 2 clues.