
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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A confectioner is planning dessert menus for a 7-day week, starting from Sunday. The choices of dessert each day can be cake, pie, ice cream, or pudding, and the same dessert may not be served consecutively. There must be pie on Wednesday and pudding on Saturday. Determine the number of different dessert menus for the week.

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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