Pressed into Paper

Medium — logic-grid deduction puzzle

At a paper stall during heritage week, two first-timers and two old hands made sheets, pressed something from a basket into them and turned them into keepsakes.

Heritage week in the port city ended with an open day of hand-made paper stalls on the harbour square. At one stall, an old craftswoman let visitors dip a bamboo screen into a vat of pulp and lift out wet sheets. Minji and Hayun had never tried it before, and they splashed water all over their shoes. Jiho and Seojun grew up helping in paper workshops, and their screens barely dripped. Two baskets stood by the vat. One held maple and ginkgo from the temple garden. The other held rose and daisy from the harbour market. Each of them took something different to press into the wet paper. When the sheets were dry, each one turned their stack into something to take home. No two of them made the same number of sheets.

Clues

1. Neither of the first-timers, Minji and Hayun, made 40 sheets.
2. The 40 sheets became kites.
3. The 13 sheets had no rose pressed into them.
4. Jiho pressed either the maple or the ginkgo.
5. Take whoever made the lanterns and whoever made the cards: one of them made 13 sheets, and the other pressed maple.
6. Minji made fewer sheets than whoever pressed ginkgo, who in turn made fewer than whoever pressed daisy.
7. Only one of these was true: whoever pressed rose made 6 sheets; Jiho made the cards; the 33 sheets had ginkgo pressed into them.
8. Lined up from the smallest stack to the biggest, the stack that became fans and the stack that became lanterns sat side by side.

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