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Puzzle #127: Can you help a piano judge (after a night on the town)?

By Barry Clarke

18 August 2021

#127 Brahms and Liszt

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At the International Pianist Competition, the judge has made a list of the top five contestants together with the composers they played. However, still recovering from a heavy night on the town, he has made a howling error.

Although each item is in the correct column, he has only managed to get one item correctly positioned in each column. The following facts are true about the correct order:

1) Edgar is one place after Iddyhat.

2) Jabber is one place before Prokofiev.

3) Khachaturian is one place before Hobble who is two places after Claudio.

4)…

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