Day 6: Round

We have to figure out the seating arrangement for nine knights around a round table. But let's ignore the logic puzzle for a second: If you just look at the knights' names and the clues about their personalities, you can figure out what it probably says on their place cards:

• The knight who's always sure of himself - Sir Tinn - CERTAIN
• The knight who always wakes up at the same time - Sir Kaydion - CIRCADIAN
• The knight who's kind of preachy - Sir Munn - SERMON
• The knight who hisses - Sir Pent - SERPENT
• The knight who's only interested in women - Sir Orrity - SORORITY
• The knight who wields a scalpel - Sir Jerry - SURGERY
• The knight who outperforms the others - Sir Pass - SURPASS
• The knight who painted a burning telephone on his armor - Sir Eel - SURREAL
• The knight who's a despicable coward - Sir Ender - SURRENDER

The place cards are in alphabetical order (by the words on them), the order above. The letters indicated by asterisks are RCERSUSAD. If you're willing to anagram this yourself or use an anagramming tool, you don't really need to do any logic puzzle to get the answer.

If you do finish the logic puzzle, you'll see that the knights sit in this order, clockwise from Kaydion: Kaydion, Pent, Jerry, Pass, Eel, Ender, Munn, Tinn, Orrity. Arrange the corresponding place cards circularly in that configuration. If you read the asterisked letters in counter-clockwise order, you'll get SREDASURCSREDA... which doesn't spell anything. If you read them clockwise, you'll get DERSCRUSADERSCRUSA... and hopefully see the answer, CRUSADERS.

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