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