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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