Colors on the Wall

Very Easy — logic-grid deduction puzzle

Four volunteers painted the community mural, one panel and one color each, but nobody wrote down who did what.

The long gray community wall finally got its mural this weekend. The wall was split into panels, each named after a plant, and from left to right they ran willow, fern, reed and moss. Someone had chalked a number in the corner of each one, counting from 1 on the left up to 4 on the right. Iris, Caleb, Zoe and Marcus turned up with brushes and buckets. Each of them took a panel and painted it in a single color, and no two of them picked the same color. By sunset the wall was bright from one end to the other. The only trouble was the sign-up sheet. It listed the names and nothing else, so nobody could say who painted where, or in which color.

Clues

1. Of Iris and Caleb, one painted the willow panel and the other painted the fern panel.
2. Iris worked somewhere to the left of Caleb.
3. The navy paint went on the panel just to the right of the one painted coral.
4. The chalked number on Zoe's panel and the one on the panel painted mint added up to seven.
5. The moss panel was not painted mint.

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