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A New Word Every Day!

During a six-day period from Monday through Saturday, Eliza Pseudonym and her friends Anna, Barbra, Carla, Delilah, and Fiona have subscribed to an internet mailing list that features a new word every day

No two women subscribed on the same day. On each day during the six-day period, a different word has been featured (abulia, betise, caryatid, dehisce, euhemerism, and floruit, in some order). 

From the clues below, determine the day on which each woman subscribed, and the day on which each word was featured.

1. Exactly one of the women has a name beginning with the same letter of the alphabet as the word featured on the day that she subscribed to the mailing list.


2. The word "caryatid" was featured precisely two days prior to Fiona joining the mailing list.


3. Carla joined the mailing list on Friday.


4. Anna signed up for the mailing list precisely one day after the word "euhemerism" was highlighted.


5. Wednesday's word did not end with the letter "e".


6. Barbra subscribed precisely three days after the word "dehisce" was featured.


Here is every word of woman of the day! 

A New Word Every Day!

Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day


What was the challenge?

As we know, Eliza Pseudonym and her friends Anna, Barbra, Carla, Delilah, and Fiona have subscribed to an internet mailing list that features a new word every day. No two women subscribed on the same day. On each day during the six-day period, a different word has been featured (abulia, betise, caryatid, dehisce, euhemerism, and floruit, in some order).

And given clues are - 

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1. Exactly one of the women has a name beginning with the same letter of the alphabet as the word featured on the day that she subscribed to the mailing list.

2. The word "caryatid" was featured precisely two days prior to Fiona joining the mailing list.


3. Carla joined the mailing list on Friday.


4. Anna signed up for the mailing list precisely one day after the word "euhemerism" was highlighted.


5. Wednesday's word did not end with the letter "e".


6. Barbra subscribed precisely three days after the word "dehisce" was featured.


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Let's make a table like below and fill it one by one as per clues.

Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day
 STEPS :  


1] As per (3), Carla joined the mailing list on Friday. And as per (6), Barbra's subscription day must be Thursday, Friday or Saturday with word 'dehisce' on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. 

But as per (5), ''dehisce'' can't be on Wednesday and Carla has already joined on Friday, hence Barbra must have joined on Thurday with word "dehisce" featured on Monday.

Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day

2] Only possible location for "caryatid" and Fiona for (2) to be true are Thursday and Saturday respectively. That's because Monday is already 'occupied' by "dehisce" so Fiona can't be on Wednesday. And as we can see, Thursday and Friday already 'occupied' by Barbra and Carla.


Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day

3] With that, for (4) to be true, only possible location for "euhemerism" is Tuesday and for Anna is Wednesday.

Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day

4] As per (1), Delilah and Eliza can't be on Monday & Tuesday at a time as that will violate (1). Therefore, Delilah must be on Tuesday and Eliza on Monday.

Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day
 
5] As per (5), "betise can't appear on Wednesday. 

Suppose it appears on Friday. 

CASE 1 : The word "abulia" with Anna on Wednesday & "floruit" with Fiona on Saturday. This violates (1), as there would be 2 women have names beginning with the same letter of the alphabet as the word featured on the day that she subscribed to the mailing list.

CASE 2 :  The word "floruit" with Anna on Wednesday & "abulia" with Fiona on Saturday. Again, this is against (1), as there is no woman has a name beginning with the same letter of the alphabet as the word featured on the day that she subscribed to the mailing list.

Therefore, "betise" must be appearing on Saturday, "floruit" on Friday and "abulia" on Wednesday with Anna.

Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day

CONCLUSION :

The final table looks like -

Assigned Word to the Woman of the Day

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