Unit 14 · Ordering Deduction
Five Friends at the Cinema — Who Arrives Second?
Lesson 6 of 6
About this lesson
Five-person ordering puzzles are the flagship challenge of this unit — and they are far more systematic than they look. With five people and five clues, your brain wants to try every combination. But the right method cuts through all of that: anchor the one fixed position first, use chain clues to compress the remaining space, and treat adjacency pairs as locked units.
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Five friends arrive at a cinema one at a time — no two arrive at the same moment. Their names are Priya, Quinn, Ravi, Sasha and Tia.
- Quinn arrives last.
- Ravi arrives before Quinn but after Sasha.
- Tia arrives immediately before Priya (there is no one else between them).
- Tia does not arrive first.
- Priya arrives before Ravi.
Who arrives second?
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