Directive 5: Day of the Week (Hints & Answer)

Hint first (no full spoiler): Check a calendar; any of its seven column headers will satisfy the Committee, embedded anywhere you like.

Directive 5 requires your password to contain the name of a day of the week: monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, or sunday. Case does not matter, and the day may be embedded inside other text. The Committee observes the standard seven-day week and has rejected all petitions for an eighth.

FRIDAY, friday, and frIdAy all count. So does the friday hiding inside unfridayed, should you feel like committing to that.

The full solution

Pick a day and type it in.

• Friday9! (APPROVED)
• sunday22B? (APPROVED)
• Friday9!venus (APPROVED, our running Act I build)

All days pass equally today, but they do not cost equally. This is a purchasing decision, and the price list looks like this:

• friday, monday, sunday: 6 letters each, and each contains exactly one a
• tuesday: 7 letters
• thursday: 8 letters
• saturday: 8 letters, and it contains two of the letter a
• wednesday: 9 letters, the luxury option nobody orders twice

Shorter is better because Directive 6 starts charging you for total length in the very next window, and Act III eventually charges you per letter. Friday is the community favorite: six letters, no repeats, pleasant to type.

One structural fact to file away: every single day name ends in day, so every option commits you to at least one d, one a, and one y. There is no day-free diet. The Committee designed the week this way on purpose, probably.

What breaks later

Directive 5 stays satisfied as long as you never mangle the day’s spelling, which is easier said than done once other rules start rewriting your letters:

• Directive 27 caps how many times certain letters may appear. Since your day donates a guaranteed d, a, and y to the ledger, a low-letter day like friday keeps the budget loose. Saturday’s second a is exactly the kind of extravagance the cap punishes.
• Directive 26 re-cases every letter (vowels up, consonants down). Your friday becomes something like frIdAy. The rule 5 check is case-insensitive, so it still passes, but do not be alarmed when your calm lowercase weekday starts shouting its vowels.
• Directive 19 exiles a digit, and the repair work sometimes tempts players to edit near the day name. Do not break the spelling. A password containing frday is just a password containing a typo, stamped DENIED.

Coming attractions: Directive 7 will demand a planet using the same embedded, case-insensitive logic, so the vocabulary section of your password is about to get crowded.

Stamp: APPROVED. The Committee will see you friday. And every other day, in writing.

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