The Five Shelves: Petrova, Tanaka, Vásquez, Lindqvist, and Moreau
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Five authors — Petrova, Tanaka, Vásquez, Lindqvist, and Moreau — each have exactly one binding, genre, cover colour, and bookmark, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their binding, genre, cover colour, and bookmark from these clues:
1. Tanaka is not the author whose book holds a feather.
2. The cookbook writer is the author with the gold cover.
3. The author with the spiral-bound edition is the author with the red cover.
4. The author with the spiral-bound edition is the poet.
5. Petrova is not the author whose book holds a pressed leaf.
6. Petrova is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
7. Vásquez is not the author whose book holds a postcard.
8. Vásquez is not the author with the spiral-bound edition.
9. The author with the boxed set is the science-fiction writer.
10. Moreau is not the poet.
11. The cookbook writer is the author whose book holds a postcard.
12. The author with the black cover is the author whose book holds a feather.
13. Vásquez is not the science-fiction writer.
14. The author with the blue cover is the author whose book holds a ribbon bookmark.
15. Petrova is not the author with the boxed set.
16. Tanaka is not the author with the red cover.
17. Vásquez is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
18. The author with the cloth-bound edition is the memoirist.
19. The author with the hardback is the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
20. The author with the boxed set is the author with the black 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 bookmark goes with “Tanaka”? Answer with just the bookmark.
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