6 men from 6 cities: Who gets the job?

The following puzzle comes from nearly 30 years ago: September 26, 1993, when I set it to readers in my hometown. When I found it among my old newspaper clippings, I was pleased to note that I could still solve it (there have been times when I have struggled to solve my own old puzzles).

This one belongs to a family that we call Einstein puzzles. I have adapted my 1993 original just a little bit, for 2023 readers.

#Puzzle 37.1

A tipsy employer calls six men to an interview and selects one of them, but by the following morning he has forgotten which one that was. Grappling with a hangover, he remembers only a few scattered details: The six men are from six different cities: Bhopal, Chandigarh, Fatehpur, Guwahati, Haldia and Thane. Each plays a different sport: badminton, cricket, football, golf, hockey and table tennis. The one who got the job plays a sport whose spelling begins with the same letter as his home city (for everyone else, it is two different letters). The man from Haldia sat between the table tennis player and the man from Fatehpur. The cricketer and the man from Chandigarh sat at opposite ends of the row. The man from Thane sat between the badminton player and the man from Guwahati. The hockey player did not sit next to the man from Bhopal. The footballer sat at the far right, next to the man from Guwahati. So, who got the job?

#Puzzle 37.2 ABACAD + FGH = FGABCA + HDA

This is an anagram in code, formed by a letter-for-letter substitution. Once the correct letters are in place, they will spell out four different numbers, and the sum depicted will be arithmetically correct. What are the four numbers?