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Host Garden Mail Mystery

The garden post desk has mixed up its delivery record. Read the labels, check the route and rebuild the slot order before the flower fair opens. 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.

Before you start

Clue check & hints

1. Address

Hint 1

No item can belong to two people. Cross out each forbidden pairing.

Hint 2

Bee cannot have two items, so Bee must have Seed.

Hint 3

Cross Seed off for the other two people. Apply the last NOT rule, then find Snail's item.

Reveal host answer

6

Robin has Leaf; Bee has Seed; Snail has Petal. Snail's item gives 6.

2. Seal

Hint 1

Compare position 1 with position 1, not with a nearby matching shape.

Hint 2

Position 1 is one difference: circle in A, diamond in B. Mark it once.

Hint 3

Compare the remaining numbered pairs one by one. Add one mark for each unequal pair, then count all your marks.

Reveal host answer

4

Different positions are 1, 3, 4, 6. There are 4 differences.

3. Route

Hint 1

Move one square for each arrow. A revisit still counts as a move.

Hint 2

After the first 3 arrows, you are at row 2, column 3. Continue from there.

Hint 3

From that checkpoint follow down, left, up, right. Copy the last cell.

Reveal host answer

1

The route ends at row 2, column 3. That cell gives 1.

4. Post

Hint 1

The missing amount is a return into stock. The cancelled delivery never happened.

Hint 2

Start with 10. Apply +4 then -1. Ignore the cancelled +7.

Hint 3

The known entries leave 13. How much must return to reach the closing stock of 16?

Reveal host answer

3

Known stock: 10 + 4 - 1 = 13. Closing stock 16 minus 13 gives the missing return 3. Cancelled +7 never arrived.

5. Slots

Hint 1

Use the letter under each named shape.

Hint 2

The first two shapes give M then A. Decode the remaining shapes the same way.

Hint 3

Write MA first, then one letter per remaining shape. Choose the table row matching the whole message.

Reveal host answer

6

The decoded word is MAIL; its row gives 6.

6. Final

Hint 1

Keep all five named badge results beside this sheet.

Hint 2

E3 is read first; it holds Slots.

Hint 3

Read slots E3, B3, C3, A3, D3. Copy every stored digit in that order, including zero.

Reveal host answer

64163

E3 > B3 > C3 > A3 > D3

Suggested timeline

Pause whenever the group needs a break. This is a planning estimate.