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The Four Shelves: Tanaka, Lindqvist, Okafor, and Moreau

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Four authors — Tanaka, Lindqvist, Okafor, and Moreau — each have exactly one bookmark, genre, and cover colour, and no two share any of them. Match each author to their bookmark, genre, and cover colour from these clues: 1. The author whose book holds a ticket stub is the author with the red cover. 2. The author whose book holds a receipt is the author with the blue cover. 3. Tanaka is not the author with the blue cover. 4. Tanaka is not the author whose book holds a ticket stub. 5. The author whose book holds a postcard is the poet. 6. Lindqvist is not the author whose book holds a feather. 7. Lindqvist is not the author whose book holds a receipt. 8. The historian is the author with the gold cover. 9. Moreau is not the science-fiction writer. 10. The author whose book holds a receipt is the mystery writer. 11. Lindqvist 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 bookmark goes with “Tanaka”? Answer with just the bookmark.

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