'Morning Melgane' Puzzle - Solution
What was the puzzle?
Rewriting all the given clues once again.
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1. The first three guests were, in some order: the person surnamed Ivens, the person from Berkeley and the antique car collector.
2. Damien's segment was sometime before Lautremont's segment.
3. Krieger's segment began at 7:45.
4. Alice appeared after the person from Oakland and before the person surnamed Morley.
5. The people from Berkeley and Daly City aren't of the same sex.
6. The six guests were: Cathy, the person whose first name is Damien, the person whose last name is Novak, the person from Daly City, the person from Palo Alto and the bungee jumper.
7. The last name of the financial adviser is either Lautremont or Novak.
8. Jaspersen's segment began exactly 45 minutes after the beekeeper's segment.
9. The crepe chef went on sometime before the person from Sausalito and sometime after Brandon.
10. The hypnotherapist's segment began at 7:15.
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STEPS :
1] Let's make table like below for simplicity & easy understanding.
2] As per (10), hypnotherapist took segment starting at 7:15 & (3) suggest that Krieger started at 7:45.
3] As per (8), Jaspersen must be either at 7:30, 7:45 or 8:00 (i.e. in second half) while beekeeper must be at 6:45 or 7:00 or 7:15. But 7:15 segment is already occupied by hypnotherapist and Krieger is there already at 7:45.
So, Jaspersen can't be at 7:45. Hence, Jaspersen must be at 7:30 and beekeeper at 6:15 for (8) to be true.
With that, the antique car collector pointed by (1) must be at 6:45.
5] With that as (4) suggests, Alice must be on during segment started at 7:00 & person from Oakland took 6:45.
6] Now, as (1) suggests person having surname Ivans has to be at 6:45 & the person at Berkeley must be at 7:15.
7] The two guests appeared in the 6:45 and 7:15 segments can't be Novak, from Daly City or Palo Alto, or interested in bungee jumping (Hint 6). Therefore, these guests must be Cathy and Damien.
8] So for (9) to be Brandon must be at 7:30, the chef must be at 7:45, and the guest from Sausalito at 8:00.
9] There are 6 different guest pointed by Hint (6). So, the bungee jumper who has to at 7:30 can't be from Daly City or Palo Alto. Hence, he must be from Corte Madera.
10] Now, Alice has to be from Daly City or Palo Alto & hence can't have surname Novak as (6) points 6 different guests. Therefore, Novak must be at 8:00 and Alice at 7:00 must be Lautremont.
11] With that, the hint (2) suggests that Damien must be at 6:45 and hence Cathy at 7:15.
12] Now it's clear that, Cathy is from Berkeley & hence as (5) suggests Alice can't be from Dale City and is therefore from Palo Alto. So Krieger must be from Dale City.
13] In the last, as per (5) itself, Kreiger, who is from Daly City, cannot be Francine, and must be named Evan. This leaves Francine at 8:00.
