Icing on the Seating Card

Very Easy — logic-grid deduction puzzle

Cake icing has smeared the seating card, so it's up to you to work out where Felicity, Godfrey, Harriet and Isidore sat and which piece each one took home.

The little homewares shop was turning one, so it set up a long party table beside its new shelf of pottery, with the birthday cake at one end. Felicity, Godfrey, Harriet and Isidore each took a seat along the table. The seats were counted from the cake end, so the first seat was closest to the cake and the fourth was furthest away. Each guest also picked one piece from the shelf to take home: a bowl, a mug, a plate or a vase. Then someone put the cake down right on the seating card, and icing smeared most of it. Use what can still be read to work out who sat where and who took which piece.

Clues

1. Felicity sat in the first or the second seat.
2. Godfrey had the first or the second seat.
3. Felicity was not in the second seat.
4. Harriet's seat came right before Isidore's.
5. Whoever took the mug sat right after whoever took the bowl.
6. The plate was picked by the guest sitting one seat before the one who picked the vase.
7. The plate was not Felicity's choice.

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