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Eliza Pseudonym and the Quintuple Feature
Eliza Pseudonym and four of her friends recently went to the local movie theatre to watch five new movies together. After each movie, the five friends discussed what they thought, and rated each movie on a scale of one to five stars (with one star being the worst, and five being the best). To their astonishment, not only did no two movies get the same rating from the same moviegoer, but no two of the moviegoers gave the same movie the same rating! From the clues below, determine what rating each friend gave each movie. (Note: There were no fractional star ratings.)
1. Delilah's least favorite film was "Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate", which wasn't Barbra's favorite film.
2. The woman who liked "Maybe Geniuses" the least didn't give "Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate" a two-star rating.
3. "You Got Curved" was poorly received by Anna (who gave it a one-star rating) and Carla (who gave it a two-star rating).
4. Anna gave "Maybe Geniuses" precisely one more star in its rating than she did for "Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate".
5. Barbra gave "Giggly" exactly twice as many stars as did the viewer whose least favorite film was "Shoegirls".
6. Carla didn't give "Maybe Geniuses" a four-star rating.
1. Delilah's least favorite film was "Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate", which wasn't Barbra's favorite film.
2. The woman who liked "Maybe Geniuses" the least didn't give "Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate" a two-star rating.
3. "You Got Curved" was poorly received by Anna (who gave it a one-star rating) and Carla (who gave it a two-star rating).
4. Anna gave "Maybe Geniuses" precisely one more star in its rating than she did for "Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate".
5. Barbra gave "Giggly" exactly twice as many stars as did the viewer whose least favorite film was "Shoegirls".
6. Carla didn't give "Maybe Geniuses" a four-star rating.
Answer
Each woman's ratings, from least favorite (*) to favorite (*****):Anna: You Got Curved (*), Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate (**), Maybe Geniuses (***), Shoegirls (****), Giggly (*****)
Barbra: Maybe Geniuses (*), Shoegirls (**), Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate (***), Giggly (****), You Got Curved (*****)
Carla: Giggly (*), You Got Curved (**), Shoegirls (***), Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate (****), Maybe Geniuses (*****)
Delilah: Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate (*), Maybe Geniuses (**), Giggly (***), You Got Curved (****), Shoegirls (*****)
Eliza: Shoegirls (*), Giggly (**), You Got Curved (***), Maybe Geniuses (****), Nanos: The MP3 Players of Fate (*****)
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I almost got it... I just messed up clue #6. So Carla and Eliza switched 4 & 5. Close enough!
Great puzzle!
Solving it was kind of like solving Sudoku--similar constraints.
Solving it was kind of like solving Sudoku--similar constraints.
This took me a bit. Nice teaser.
What a delightful teaser! At one point I thought that there weren't enough clues. But as someone else said, there was a soduku-like element to it. Very fun!
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