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Sweet & very intelligent katty has 8 puppets(Jane Bird Barbie Angel Colleen Nora Lass Missy).
All puppets are of different size. She arrange all puppets to face towards the guest and tell the guess the following clues :

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* Bird has two puppets smaller on its left side
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Also some puppets are inside the bigger puppets.

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