READING NOOKS BY GEORGENA S.

SIL

The thriving Bridgewater Bookstore converted four alcoves into cozy reading nooks, where patrons may
browse through books before buying. Each nook is furnished with a different style of chair, as well as with
a small table made from a different wood (one is pine). A hand-crafted rug with a different design delin-
eates the boundaries of each nook, and a different style of lamp (including a torchiere) illuminates each
area. From the following clues, can you determine each nook’s chair, table, rug, and lamp?

1. Neither the banker’s lamp nor the candlestick

Candlestick
Mahogany
lamp illuminates the nook with the Louis XV

Hurricane
Torchiere
Banker’s
chair.

Oriental
Walnut
Cherry

Trellis
Floral
Aztec
Pine
2. The nook with the candlestick lamp doesn’t
have the Aztec or trellis rug.
3. The wing chair, the cherry table, the hurricane Club
lamp, and the f loral rug are in four different
nooks. Louis XV
Swivel
4. The walnut table, which isn’t paired with the
Oriental rug, isn’t with the swivel rocker. Wing
5. The Aztec rug and the Louis XV chair are in dif- Banker’s
ferent nooks. Candlestick
6. The hurricane lamp, which is in a different Hurricane
nook from the mahogany table, doesn’t illumi- Torchiere
nate the club chair or the Louis XV chair.
Aztec
7. The wing chair, which isn’t lit by the candle- Floral
stick lamp, doesn’t stand on the trellis rug or
the Aztec rug. Oriental
Solution is on the next page. Trellis

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The hurricane lamp isn’t paired with the wing
(clue 3), club, or Louis XV chair (clue 6), so it’s
paired with the swivel rocker. The table in this
nook isn’t cherry (clue 3), walnut (clue 4), or
mahogany (clue 6), so it’s pine. The lamp that
illuminates the nook with the Louis XV chair
isn’t a banker’s lamp or a candlestick lamp (clue
1), so it’s a torchiere. The wing chair isn’t paired
with the candlestick lamp (clue 7), so the club
chair is, and, by elimination, the wing chair is
paired with the banker’s lamp. The wing chair
doesn’t share a nook with the f loral (clue 3), trel-
lis, or Aztec rug (clue 7), so it shares with the
Oriental rug. The club chair doesn’t come with
the Aztec or trellis rug (clue 2), so it has the f lo-
ral rug. The Louis XV chair isn’t paired with the
Aztec rug (clue 5), so the swivel rocker is, and, by
elimination, the Louis XV chair comes with the
trellis rug. The table accompanying the wing
chair isn’t cherry (clue 3) or walnut (clue 4), so
it’s mahogany. The f loral rug isn’t paired with
the cherry table (clue 3), so the trellis rug is, and,
by elimination, the f loral rug is paired with the
walnut table. In summary:
Club chair, walnut table, f loral rug,
candlestick lamp
Louis XV chair, cherry table, trellis rug,
torchiere
Swivel rocker, pine table, Aztec rug,
hurricane lamp
Wing chair, mahogany table, Oriental rug,
banker’s lamp

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