The Four Shelves: The Author With the Cloth-bound Edition, the Author Whose Book Holds a Feather, and the Historian
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Four shelves stand in a row, numbered 1 to 4 from left to right. Each holds exactly one of each attribute, and no attribute repeats. Work out the full arrangement from these clues:
1. The author with the blue cover is immediately to the right of the poet.
2. The author with the cloth-bound edition is the author whose book holds a pressed leaf.
3. The author with the red cover is somewhere to the left of the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
4. The author with the spiral-bound edition is the author with the green cover.
5. The historian is directly next to the author with the paperback.
6. The author whose book holds a pressed leaf is directly next to the author with the hardback.
7. The author whose book holds a pressed leaf is the author with the black cover.
8. The author whose book holds a ticket stub is the cookbook writer.
9. The author with the cloth-bound edition is directly next to the author whose book holds a ticket stub.
10. The author with the paperback is not the author with the red cover.
11. The author whose book holds a feather is 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 arrangement, which numbered shelf (1–4) does “the author whose book holds a feather” end up at? Answer with the number.
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