Profile Perfect Level 40 Answer & Walkthrough

The "A Mix-Up at the Tea Garden" board, solved. Hint-first, then a walkthrough of the deduction, then the finished answer grid.

Answer grid

The solved board — five subjects, five attributes, no blanks.

Subject	Material	Origin	Keeper	Era	Worth
Teapot	Porcelain	Jingdezhen	The Host	1720s	$
Silk Fan	Silk	Kyoto	The Poet	1850s	$$
Lacquer Box	Lacquer	Fuzhou	The Merchant	1780s	$$$
Wind Chime	Copper	Suzhou	The Gardener	1900s	$$$$
Jade Ring	Nephrite	Hetian	The Guest	1600s	$$$$$

Work down the list; stop as soon as the case clicks.

Hint 1

The clue about the host points at the teapot: porcelain, the oldest-ish centerpiece of the table, and the lowest value tag of the five.

Hint 2

Two items are made of soft materials (silk and lacquer). The fan traveled farther than the box — it is the only one from abroad.

Hint 3

The ring is the only item older than the teapot, and the chime is the only one newer than the box. Both ends of the timeline anchor quickly.

A repeatable order of attack for this board.

Set the board

Write the five subjects down as rows: Teapot, Silk Fan, Lacquer Box, Wind Chime, Jade Ring. Columns are Material, Origin, Keeper, Era, Worth. Nothing is solved yet — you are only translating the clue board into an empty grid.
Anchor the extremes

The Jade Ring sits at the top of the worth column ($$$$$); the Teapot is the floor ($). Lock both extremes early and their keepers — The Guest and The Host — fall out with them.
Order age before price

Now compare eras across the middle rows (1720s, 1850s, 1780s, 1900s, 1600s). Worth and age are two different orders on this board — sort one column fully before touching the other, or you will chase a pattern that is not there.
Simulate, then submit

Read the grid back clue by clue. Every one of the five rows must satisfy every clue with nothing left over — and only then spend an attempt. If one cell contradicts a clue, change that cell, not the whole layout.

The two places solvers most often lose an attempt.

A clue says the ring predates the teapot. Players who read it backwards place the ring in the 1720s slot and everything after cascades wrong.

The wind chime is the gardener's item precisely because it hangs outside — the lacquer box's indoor clue already excluded him.

Timeline clues do the heavy lifting here. Sketch the five eras in order first, then hang each item on the line. Happy puzzling!