"The Senshi go Shopping"
Logic Solution

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In Summary

Usagi 1st: Food court: Takiyaki Beef 2nd: Toy Store: Video Game 3rd: Clockery: Wall Clock 4th: Apparel Store: Sunglasses

Ami 1st: Clockery: Alarm Clock 2nd: Food Court: Rice Bowl 3rd: Toy Store: Water Gun 4th: Book Store: Children's Book

Rei 1st: Bookstore: Bookmark 2nd: Clockery: Wrist Watch 3rd: Food Court: Salad 4th: Apparel Store: T-shirt

Makoto 1st: Toy Store: Action Figure 2nd: Bookstore: Magazine 3rd: Clockery: Pocket Watch 4th: Apparel Store: Shoes

Minako 1st: Toy Store: Playing Cards 2nd: Bookstore: Romance Novel 3rd: Food Court: Teriyaki Chicken 4th: Apparel Store: Skirt

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An Explanation

1. Minako and Makoto went to the toy store 1st (c1). Minako, Makoto, Usagi, and Ami went to the toy store (c1), so Rei did not. Makoto went to the clockery 3rd (c1). Rei went to the bookstore 1st (c1) and clockery 2nd (c1). Makoto and Rei bought either the wrist watch or the pocket watch (c1). Either Minako or Makoto bought the magazine (c1).
   
   
2. Minako, Usagi, and Ami bought one of the playing cards, video game, or water gun (c1). Makoto bought the action figure (e1+e2). Minako went to the bookstore 2nd. (c1+c2). Neither Ami nor Minako bought the magazine (c2). Makoto purchased the magazine and visited the bookstore (e1+e2). Makoto (e2), Ami (c2), Minako (c2), and Rei (c1) went to the bookstore, so Usagi did not. Ami went to the clockery 1st (c2). Usagi went to the clockery after the toy store (c2). Usagi (c2), Ami (c2), Rei (c1), and Makoto (c1) went to the clockery, so Minako did not.
   
   
3. Ami and Minako each purchased either the water gun or the playing cards (c3). Usagi bought the video game (e2+e3). Neither Ami nor Minako bought the bookmark (c3), either Ami or Minako bought the children's book (c3), neither Ami nor Minako bought the magazine (e2), so Ami and Minako each bought the children's book or the romance novel.
   
   
4. Ami went to the food court 2nd (c2). Usagi went to the food court 1st (c2). Usagi purchased either takiyaki beef or teriyaki chicken (c2). Rei bought a salad from the food court 3rd (c3), Minako bought teriyaki chicken from the food court 3rd (c3), Usagi purchased takiyaki beef (e4+e4), so Ami purchased a rice bowl from the food court, and Makoto did not go to the food court.
   
   
5. Rei bought a wrist watch (c3). Makoto bought the pocket watch (e1+e5). Ami and Usagi each bought either the alarm clock or the wall clock (e2+e5). Ami went to the clockery before Usagi (c2+c2), and the alarm clock was bought before the wall clock (c1), so Ami bought the alarm clock and Usagi bought the wall clock. Ami purchased an item from the clockery (c2), the toy store (c1), the food court (c2), and the bookstore (c2), and not from the apparel store.
   
   
6. Usagi and Makoto each bought either the shoes or the sunglasses (c4), so Rei and Minako (c5) each purchased either the t-shirt or the skirt. The senshi that purchased the watergun, either Ami or Minako (e3), bought neither the t-shirt nor the skirt (c4), so Minako did not buy it (e6) and Ami did. Minako bought the playing cards (e3+e6). The senshi that bought the t-shirt did not purchase playing cards (c4), so Rei purchased the t-shirt and Minako purchased the skirt (e6+c4). Usagi and Makoto went to the apparel store after the clockery (c3+c4), making it the 4th stop for both of them. Makoto did not go to the food court (e4), and she went to the toy store 1st (c1), the clockery 3rd (e1), and the the apparel store 4th (e6), so she must have visited the bookstore 2nd.
   
   
7. The shoes were not purchased by a blonde (c1), and Usagi is blonde (sailormoon knowledge), so Makoto bought the shoes and Usagi bought the sunglasses (e6+e7). Ami did not buy the romance novel (c5), so she bought the children's book and Minako bought the romance novel (e3+e7). Makoto bought the magazine (e2) and Usagi did not go to the bookstore (e2), so Rei bought the bookmark.
   
   

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