The cases for 2026-09-14

The cage counted true at midnight and false by close. Between those two tallies, every player kept to a private room along the row. Trace the row and find whose luck was manufactured. The file names 4 players; Countess Mira Dolin's statement sits on top of the pile.

1. 1. Dashiell Crane and whoever stacked the silver chips are the same person.
2. 2. Countess Mira Dolin was in the room right before the gin rummy player.
3. 3. Countess Mira Dolin was in the room right before whoever stacked the pearl chips.
4. 4. The keno player was right next to whoever stacked the pearl chips.
5. 5. Romy Castellan and the gin rummy player had exactly 1 room between them.
6. 6. Dashiell Crane was right next to whoever stacked the pearl chips.
7. 7. Émile Tournier was in the room right before whoever stacked the silver chips.
8. 8. The gin rummy player was in the room right before whoever stacked the silver chips.
9. 9. Dashiell Crane was right next to whoever stacked the bronze chips.
10. 10. Countess Mira Dolin was in a lower-numbered room than the keno player.
11. 11. Dashiell Crane was in the room right before the blackjack player.

Backstage at the Lyceum, the corridor of dressing rooms holds the whole company — and one very good liar. The hair-clip vanished before the final blackout. Assign every performer to a room before the reviews land. Statements were taken from all 5 performers; Emil Sandoval's is the first page.

1. 1. Bianca Orsini was right next to the performer holding the glass vial.
2. 2. The performer in the gold breastplate was in the dressing room right before the performer holding the prop goblet.
3. 3. The performer in the crimson gown was in a lower-numbered dressing room than the performer in the feathered mask.
4. 4. The performer in the crimson gown was somewhere after the performer in the mourning veil but before the performer in the feathered mask.
5. 5. The performer in the crimson gown was somewhere after the performer in the gold breastplate but before the performer in the plumed helmet.
6. 6. The performer in the feathered mask was somewhere after the performer in the mourning veil but before the performer in the plumed helmet.
7. 7. The performer in the gold breastplate was in a lower-numbered dressing room than the performer holding the laurel wreath.
8. 8. The performer holding the wooden dagger was in the dressing room right before the performer holding the prop goblet.
9. 9. The performer in the mourning veil was in the dressing room right before the performer holding the wooden dagger.
10. 10. Augustin Reyes and the performer holding the laurel wreath are the same person.
11. 11. The performer in the mourning veil and the performer holding the glass vial are the same person.
12. 12. The performer in the crimson gown was in a lower-numbered dressing room than the performer holding the ivory comb.
13. 13. Della Fontaine and the performer in the mourning veil had exactly 3 dressing rooms between them.
14. 14. Bianca Orsini was somewhere after Lucien Beaumont but before Emil Sandoval.

Every dome on the ridge logged the eclipse; only one logged a theft. The star map was there at totality and gone by dawn. Place each astronomer under the right dome. Statements were taken from all 5 astronomers; Ottoline Grey's is the first page.

1. 1. Cyrus Penn was in the dome right before the astronomer using the pendulum clock.
2. 2. The astronomer using the spectroscope was in the dome right before the astronomer tracking the nebula.
3. 3. Lena Ostrov was somewhere after Dr. Halley Vance but before Ottoline Grey.
4. 4. Ottoline Grey and whoever was drinking the peppermint tea are the same person.
5. 5. Ottoline Grey was right next to the astronomer using the pendulum clock.
6. 6. The astronomer tracking the ringed planet and whoever was drinking the warm milk had exactly 1 dome between them.
7. 7. The astronomer tracking the comet was in a lower-numbered dome than the astronomer tracking the star cluster.
8. 8. Nadia Ellison was in a lower-numbered dome than whoever was drinking the peppermint tea.
9. 9. The astronomer tracking the star cluster and whoever was drinking the warm milk are the same person.
10. 10. Nadia Ellison was right next to the astronomer tracking the ringed planet.
11. 11. Lena Ostrov was right next to the astronomer using the brass telescope.
12. 12. The astronomer tracking the comet and whoever was drinking the peppermint tea had exactly 2 domes between them.
13. 13. The astronomer using the photometer and whoever was drinking the ginger tea had exactly 2 domes between them.
14. 14. The astronomer using the spectroscope and whoever was drinking the spiced cider had exactly 1 dome between them.
15. 15. Dr. Halley Vance was in the dome right before Lena Ostrov.