If Koppel is assigned to Thursday, then any of the following could be true EXCEPT:

zia305 on May 31, 2020

Explanation

Could someone please explain the whole game?

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shunhe on May 31, 2020

Hi @zia305,

Thanks for the question! So we have a medical clinic assigning doctors to shifts for 7 days, Sunday to Saturday, one doctor per day. Our players are GHKLNP, which means there’s one more day than doctor. Not let’s look at the rules:

Whoever is on Sunday is also on Saturday
X X
__ __ __ __ __ __ __
S M T W T F S

I don’t know if this will render properly, but hopefully you get the idea. Just start putting these things on your diagram.

Rule 2: G is on one day. This also means that based on rule 1, G is not on Sunday or Saturday, which we can put in the diagram.

Rule 3: G is either before or after K; in other words, we have either KG or GK

Rule 4: H cannot be put before or after N; in other words, we have ~NH and ~HN

Rule 5: P must be on Tuesday; this one is pretty straightforward.

Note that there are no rules concerning L, so keep that in your head. Clearly, the placement of the KG/GK block will be pretty important, as is the fact that we have to keep N and H away from each other. This is honestly a pretty good place to leave the setup and go into the questions.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.