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Six shelves have badge-box records. One box was put on the wrong shelf. Compare the prints, match the clerks and repair the moving log; all five pieces of evidence identify its shelf. 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.
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Compare position 1 with position 1, not with a nearby matching shape.
Position 2 is one difference: hexagon in A, square in B. Mark it once.
Compare the remaining numbered pairs one by one. Add one mark for each unequal pair, then count all your marks.
4
Different positions are 2, 5, 7, 8. There are 4 differences.
No item can belong to two people. Cross out each forbidden pairing.
Rob cannot have two items, so Rob must have Note.
Cross Note off for the other two people. Apply the last NOT rule, then find Ivy's item.
9
Ivy has Key; Rob has Note; Ada has Tag. Ivy's item gives 9.
Columns A–D run left to right. Rows 1–3 run top to bottom.
The first coordinate C1 means column C, row 1. Its letter is C.
Begin with C, then read D2, A1, B2 in order. Use the complete word's conversion row.
3
C1, D2, A1, B2 reads CASE. The conversion table gives 3.
The missing amount is a return into stock. The cancelled delivery never happened.
Start with 12. Apply +4 then -1. Ignore the cancelled +7.
The known entries leave 15. How much must return to reach the closing stock of 21?
6
Known stock: 12 + 4 - 1 = 15. Closing stock 21 minus 15 gives the missing return 6. Cancelled +7 never arrived.
Loose units are not parcels. Every parcel has equal weight.
Remove 1 loose units from 37. That leaves 36 for the equal parcels.
Share 36 equally among 4 parcels. Substitute one parcel's weight into the second rule.
9
Remove 1 from 37; share 36 among 4 parcels to get 9. Check 2 x 9 + 3 = 21.
Keep all five named badge results beside this sheet.
Use C1=Print, C2=Clerk, C3=Address, C4=Moving, C5=Weight.
Each wrong record differs in just one column. Cross out all five wrong records, then copy the complete remaining code.
01427
Only Shelf C matches all five columns. Copy its printed code 01427.
Pause whenever the group needs a break. This is a planning estimate.