I stumbled across this logic riddle just recently and have not solved it yet, though I intend to (it's very time consuming, maybe I'll make a hobby out of this one riddle). I thought I would share it with this forum though and perhaps have a little race between friends. The creator of the puzzle accepts emails with solutions [pm me if you want to send in your solution]. Nobody could solve this in 3 years apparently so a few extra hints were given which I have included in the spoiler (not that they spoil anything). So far, 1 person has apparently solved this. Here we go, have fun! Note: I edited it slightly to help with the grammar.
A cinema presented ten different films on Saturday. There were three presentations of each film, that began at 3 pm, 6 pm and at 9 pm.
Anna, Brenda, Claudia, Irene, Jennifer, Kelly, Martina, Rita, Sandra and Yvonne have each seen three different films on this day. They saw the first film at 3 o'clock, the second at 6 o'clock and the third at 9 o'clock. Each of the thirty presentations was visited exactly by one of these women. Each woman has a favorite actor. As real fans they have seen their favorite actors in one or two of the three films they watched.
In each of the ten films one of these favorite actors performed the lead and another favorite actor performed the supporting role. Each actor performed exactly once as the leading role and exactly once as the supporting role.
The Films are: The arrival; The library; The boxer; The thief; The office; The invasion; The card; The gate; The president; The sanitarium
The Cinemagoers are (in no particular order):
Firstname: Anna; Brenda; Claudia; Irene; Jennifer; Kelly; Martina; Rita; Sandra; Yvonne
Lastname: Bruns; Drees; Gerling; Knoop; Leifeld; Morsch; Panow; Raspe; Sand; Titze
The Favorite Actors are: Brad; Bruce; Dustin; Hugh; Johnny; Kevin; Michael; Robert; Sean; Will
In this situation the following is known:
1. Claudias favorite actor is Brad.
2. Rita saw the film "The boxer" first.
3. The favorite actor of Kelly performed the leading role in "The arrival".
4. A woman saw her favorite actor in a supporting role at 6 o'clock in the film "The thief".
5. Michael performed the leading role in the film "The president". The leading actor of the film "The boxer" performed the supporting role in the film "The president".
6. Mrs. Leitfeld saw at 3 o'clock the film "The card". The fan of Bruce saw at 6 o'clock the film "The card". The fan of Johnny saw the film "The card" at 9 o'clock. The leading role in the film "The card" performed the favorite actor of Mrs. Titze.
7. Martina saw the film "The sanitarium" at 9 o'clock and the fan of the supporting actor from the film "The office" saw the film "The sanitarium" at 3 o'clock.
8. The fan of Sean saw the film "The gate" at 3 o'clock and Mrs. Sand saw the film "The gate" at 9 o'clock. The leading role in the film "The gate" was the favorite actor of the woman who saw the film "The boxer" at 6 o'clock.
9. Anna saw first, the film that was seen at 6 o'clock by the woman who saw "The office" at 9 o'clock.
10. The woman who saw the film "The president" at 6 o'clock, saw at 3 o'clock in a supporting role the favorite actor of the woman who saw the film "The thief" at 3 o'clock.
11. The fan of the supporting actor from the film "The gate" saw at 9 o'clock in a leading role the supporting actor from the third film of the woman who saw "The arrival" first.
12. Mrs. Drees second film was seen by another woman at 9 o'clock, whose favorite actor performed the leading role in the film in which Kevin performed the supporting role.
13. Sandra saw the favorite actor of the woman, who saw the film "The president" at 3 o'clock. The woman who saw the film "The president" at 3 o'clock (not Sandra), saw at 6 o'clock "The office".
14. The fan of the supporting actor from the film "The library", saw at 3 o'clock the film, that the woman who was a fan of Roberts saw at 6 o'clock.
15. The fan of the leading actor from the film "The thief " saw at 9 o'clock in a leading role the favorite actor of the woman who saw "The invasion" at 6 o'clock.
16. The woman, who saw Dustin in a leading role at 6 o'clock, saw at 9 o'clock in a supporting role the favorite actor of the woman, who saw "The sanitarium" second.
17. The fan of the supporting actor from the film "The boxer" saw as third the first film of the woman, who saw the third film of Mrs. Gerling as second.
18. The woman, who saw the film "The invasion" at 6 o'clock, saw at another time the film, that Mrs. Knoop saw at 6 o'clock.
19. The woman, who saw "The invasion" first, saw at 9 o'clock in a supporting role the favorite actor of the woman, who saw the film "The boxer" as third.
20. Yvonne saw as third the first film of the woman, whose favorite actor performed the supporting role in "The card".
21. Brenda's second film is the third of the woman, whose favorite actor performed the leading role in the second film of the woman, who saw "The invasion" at 9 o'clock.
22. The fan of Will saw as third the second film of the woman, whose favorite actor performed the leading role in the first film of the woman, whose favorite actor performed the leading role in the film "The office".
23. Mrs. Raspes favorite actor performed the supporting role in "The invasion".
24. The fan of the leading actor from the film "The library" saw first the second film of the fan of the supporting actor from the film "The arrival".
25. The leading actor from the film "The sanitarium" performed the supporting role in the first film of the woman, who saw "The arrival" at 9 o'clock.
26. The fan of the supporting actor from the film "The sanitarium" saw "The thief" at 9 o'clock. The favorite actor of Mrs. Bruns performed the leading role in the third film of the woman, whose second film is the first film of the woman, who saw "The thief" at 9 o'clock.
27. The favorite actor of the woman, who saw "The gate" at 6 o'clock, performed the supporting role in the third film of the woman, who saw as first the second film of Irene.
28. Jennifer Morsch and Yvonne have seen the same actor in different films (one or more times).
29. The leading actor from the film "The invasion" performed the supporting role in the film, in which the favorite actor of Mrs. Knoop performed the leading role.
30. The fan of Hugh saw as first the third film of the woman, who saw "The arrival" as second.
31. Mrs. Panows favorite actor performed the leading role in the first film of the woman, whose third film is the second film of the woman, who saw "The library" as first.
32. The woman, who saw the film "The president" at 9 o'clock, saw the film "The library" at 6 o'clock. The woman, who saw "The office" at 3 o'clock, saw the film "The library" at 9 o'clock.
Which actor performed which role in which film? Who (first name and last name) saw which film when? And who is the favorite actor of each woman?
