Q23

[CesarF24]

Can you provide an explanation as to why this answer requires Q to be Friday?

[Misti Duvall]

Another tricky one! The short answer is that Q doesn't have to be Fri for this one. The answer is (D), which is P has to be Thurs.

Here's how I worked it out:

I started with the previous work from Q22, where in one of my frames I had M only on Thurs. It looked like this:

T: M L P
F: N Q P
S: N Q L

This frame eliminates answers (A) and (B).

Next I tried M only on Sat (it can't be alone on Fri, cause then P would have to repeat and there wouldn't be room for it), which looks like this:

T: P L/N Q/N
F: N P Q/L
S: M L Q/N

Q doesn't have to be on Fri, cause L could be. But P has to be Thurs, which is the answer.