The little village in which our Clue suspects live love to celebrate and any Holiday is an occasion, especially St. Patrick’s Day. The football team of each of the two local middle schools play their annual St. Patrick’s Day football game. One team’s colors are light green and black and the other is dark green and gold. When Miss Scarlet and four other Clue suspeects went shopping earlier that afternoon for ball caps they found that all the green & black striped caps and the green & gold striped caps were sold out, so each bought a striped cap of green and one other color - blue, red, tan, white, or yellow. Each also bought a green T-shirt with a different St. Patrick’s Day related motif - horseshoe, leprechaun, mug of foaming bear, pot of gold, or shamrock.

Arriving at the game, the five found seats together, designated A through E, and “left” and “right” are left and right as they sit next to one another looking out onto the field. They waved frantically to their friend, Mr. Green, who was one of the game’s referees this year. As it ended up, at the end of the game the score was tied and after 30 minutes of overtime, the officials called it a tie!

From the clues, determine the seat in which each individual sat, the color of stripes of each person’s cap, and the motif on each person’s t-shirt.

1. Prof. Plum was seated somewhere to the right of the person who wore the t-shirt with the shamrock motif, who was seated somewhere to the right of the person who wore the green & white stripped cap

2. The person who wore the t-shirt with the pot of gold motif didn’t not sit to the immediate left or the immediate right of the person who wore the green & blue stripped cap.

3. The person who wore the t-shirt with the leprechaun motif sat somewhere to the left of Col. Mustard and somewhere to the right of the person who wore the green & red striped cap.

4. The individual who wore the t-shirt with the horseshoe motif isn’t the one whose cap was green & white striped or the cap that was green & tan striped..

5. Mrs. Peacock sat somewhere to the right of the person who wore the green & yellow cap.

6. Col. Mustard sat to the immediate left of the person who wore the t-shirt with the shamrock motif and somewhere to the right of the Mrs. White (who didn’t wear the green & white cap). .

7. Mrs. Peacock sat somewhere between the person who wore the green & tan cap and the person who wore the green & red cap

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