The Five Shelves: Petrova, Moreau, Tanaka, Okafor, and Lindqvist
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Five authors — Petrova, Moreau, Tanaka, Okafor, and Lindqvist — each have exactly one genre, binding, and cover colour, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their genre, binding, and cover colour from these clues:
1. The author with the paperback is the author with the red cover.
2. Petrova is not the author with the spiral-bound edition.
3. Petrova is not the poet.
4. Petrova is not the author with the paperback.
5. Okafor is not the author with the red cover.
6. Petrova is not the author with the boxed set.
7. Moreau is not the author with the blue cover.
8. The poet is the author with the leather-bound edition.
9. Okafor is not the author with the spiral-bound edition.
10. The cookbook writer is the author with the blue cover.
11. The mystery writer is the author with the hardback.
12. The author with the leather-bound edition is the author with the gold cover.
13. Tanaka is not the author with the blue cover.
14. Moreau is not the author with the boxed set.
15. The author with the hardback is the author with the black cover.
16. The historian is the author with the boxed set.
17. Moreau is not the author with the red cover.
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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 binding goes with “Lindqvist”? Answer with just the binding.
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