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The greenhouse desk mixed three caretakers’ seed records with a cancelled delivery. Match each caretaker, decode the seed note and check the planting slots. Collect five named badge digits and use the final sheet. Every clue is on the table; ask the host for one hint at a time.
Rotate player roles · Choose a useful hint · Manage two teams
Start at S and check every letter.
The exact word starts in row 3, column 1. Check its letters against the target.
In that row, copy column 5, the cell immediately after the complete word.
8
Only row 3 has SEED followed immediately by 8. Other rows have changed or reversed letters.
No item can belong to two people. Cross out each forbidden pairing.
Jae cannot have two items, so Jae must have Bean.
Cross Bean off for the other two people. Apply the last NOT rule, then find Luis's item.
2
Ava has Corn; Jae has Bean; Luis has Pea. Luis's item gives 2.
The missing amount is a return into stock. The cancelled delivery never happened.
Start with 8. Apply +3 then -3. Ignore the cancelled +7.
The known entries leave 8. How much must return to reach the closing stock of 13?
5
Known stock: 8 + 3 - 3 = 8. Closing stock 13 minus 8 gives the missing return 5. Cancelled +7 never arrived.
Columns A–D run left to right. Rows 1–3 run top to bottom.
The first coordinate B1 means column B, row 1. Its letter is S.
Begin with S, then read C2, C2, D3 in order. Use the complete word's conversion row.
8
B1, C2, C2, D3 reads SEED. The conversion table gives 8.
Loose units are not parcels. Every parcel has equal weight.
Remove 1 loose units from 7. That leaves 6 for the equal parcels.
Share 6 equally among 3 parcels. Substitute one parcel's weight into the second rule.
2
Remove 1 from 7; share 6 among 3 parcels to get 2. Check 2 x 2 + 3 = 7.
Keep all five named badge results beside this sheet.
Use C1=Seed, C2=Keeper, C3=Delivery, C4=Plot, C5=Weight.
Each wrong record differs in just one column. Cross out all five wrong records, then copy the complete remaining code.
02517
Only Record B matches all five columns. Copy its printed code 02517.
Pause whenever the group needs a break. This is a planning estimate.