The Five Shelves: Moreau, Okafor, Vásquez, Lindqvist, and Petrova
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Five authors — Moreau, Okafor, Vásquez, Lindqvist, and Petrova — each have exactly one genre, cover colour, and bookmark, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their genre, cover colour, and bookmark from these clues:
1. Vásquez is not the mystery writer.
2. Petrova is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
3. Vásquez is not the poet.
4. Moreau is not the mystery writer.
5. Lindqvist is not the author with the green cover.
6. Moreau is not the author with the red cover.
7. The author with the green cover is the author whose book holds a pressed leaf.
8. Petrova is not the mystery writer.
9. The poet is the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
10. The cookbook writer is the author with the gold cover.
11. The mystery writer is the author whose book holds a pressed leaf.
12. Moreau is not the poet.
13. The science-fiction writer is the author whose book holds a receipt.
14. The author with the red cover is the author whose book holds a postcard.
15. The author with the black cover is the author whose book holds a receipt.
16. Moreau is not the cookbook writer.
17. Vásquez is not the cookbook writer.
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Solution
Commit an attempt to unseal the proof. Write your answer — right or wrong, thinking it through is the point.
In the final matching, which cover colour goes with “Vásquez”? Answer with just the cover colour.
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