The Foreigners and the Menu(Puzzle 2)

Here comes the second of many puzzles to come


The Foreigners and the Menu


A particular inn always offers the same nine dishes on its
dinner menu: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H , and I.
Five foreigners arrive. Nobody tells them which dish cor
responds to each letter and so they each select one letter
without knowing what they will eat.
The innkeeper arrives with the five dishes ordered and
puts them in the center of the table so that they can decide
who eats what.
This goes on for two more nights.
The foreigners, who are professors of logic, were able to
deduce by the dishes they ordered which letter represents
what dish.
What could have been the dishes ordered each of the
three nights?


Orientation:-

i) The idea is to order same food twice on a given night to find out what it is 

For example 

ABCDD will help us find what D is

ii)Another idea is to order same food across days to find out what it is 
For example on the second day we can find out what is A and G from the below configuration

AEFGG this will help us to find out what is A,G is 

iii)There is one more idea to solve this puzzle which you have to figure it on your own.


iv)This puzzle is taken from the book "Hard to Solve Brain Teasers by Jaime & Lea Poniachik"


Comments

  1. UnknownApril 18, 2023 at 4:38 PM

    After the quandary on the first day, the second day they order 5 of Dish A, 4 of Dish B, 3 of Dish C, 2 of Dish B and 1 Dish A.

    The next day, the do the same
    Pattern with 4F, 3G, 2H, 1I.

    They would easily find what is what.

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