The Five Desks: The Orchid Keeper, the Cookie Eater, and the Owner of the Black Mug
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Five desks stand in a row, numbered 1 to 5 from left to right. Each holds exactly one of each attribute, and no attribute repeats. Work out the full arrangement from these clues:
1. The owner of the blue mug is immediately to the right of the orchid keeper.
2. The Kotlin programmer is immediately to the left of the owner of the red mug.
3. The fern keeper is immediately to the right of the owner of the red mug.
4. The basil grower is immediately to the left of the Swift programmer.
5. The cookie eater is immediately to the left of the pretzel eater.
6. The Go programmer is immediately to the left of the TypeScript programmer.
7. The owner of the white mug is immediately to the right of the Go programmer.
8. The owner of the green mug is not the Kotlin programmer.
9. The cactus keeper is not the apple eater.
10. The Kotlin programmer is directly next to the cracker eater.
11. The apple eater is immediately to the right of the Kotlin programmer.
12. The cracker eater is somewhere to the left of the owner of the green mug.
Hints
Hint 1
Hint 2
Hint 3
Solution
Commit an attempt to unseal the proof. Write your answer — right or wrong, thinking it through is the point.
In the final arrangement, which numbered desk (1–5) does “the Swift programmer” end up at? Answer with the number.
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