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Solve the reading-room finale

Combine ordering, category matching and a keyed note in one complete solution.

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Your puzzle

Ada, Ben and Cleo arrive at different times—nine, ten or eleven—and bring different objects: key, map or torch. Each object and time is used once. A coded note supplies one clue. Solve the full record, then audit every clue.

  1. Decode CFO NBQ by shifting each letter back one alphabet place. The message gives a person and object.
  2. The map arrived at ten.
  3. Ada arrived before the map.
  4. Cleo did not bring the key.
  5. Each person, object and time is used once.
Finale key and working record
ItemInformation
KeyEncode by shifting forward 1; Z wraps to A.
NoteCFO NBQ
RecordAda / Ben / Cleo: object and arrival time.
Working grid: mark ✓ for a match, × to rule out, or leave blank.
PersonKeyMapTorch
Ada
Ben
Cleo

Write the complete assignment

Audit every clue and uniqueness

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