Put these things in order

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• Amir sorts the items by colour. From his point of view, left-to-right, they are ordered as follows: angel (white-blue), sextant (yellow), four-leaf clover (blue), tree (green), fifty kroner (green), and then tomato (red). He describes the order as “complemented”. He accidentally gets the angel and the fifty kroner in the correct places, and earns joint third place.
• Solveig attempts to put the items in alphabetical order. From her point of view, left-to-right, they are ordered as follows: angel (‘engel’), fifty kroner (‘femtilapp’), four-leaf clover (‘firkløver’), tomato (‘tomat’), tree (‘tre’), and then… sextant (which she misidentifies as a microscope (‘mikroskop’). Obviously, she also manages to put the sextant in the wrong place, alphabetically, regardless of what she thinks it is. Before she can correct this, her time runs out. However, thanks to that mistake, she manages to place the angel and the sextant in the correct positions, and earns joint third place.
• Einar initially places the items in alphabetical order. From his point of view, left-to-right, they are ordered as follows: angel (‘engel’), fifty kroner (‘femtilapp’), four-leaf clover (‘firkløver’), sextant (‘sekstant’), tomato (‘tomat’), and then tree (‘tre’). After placing them, he remains in the room and thinks for a little while longer, before identifying the correct solution of putting them in numerical order: angel (‘engel’, with ‘en’ meaning ‘one’ in Norwegian), tomato (‘tomat’, with ‘to’ meaning ‘two’), tree (‘tre’ meaning both ‘tree’ and ‘three’), four-leaf clover (‘firkløver’, with ‘fir’ meaning ‘four’), fifty kroner (‘femtilapp’, with ‘fem’ meaning ‘five’), and then sextant (‘sekstant’, with ‘seks’ meaning ‘six’). He earns second place.
• Ida identifies the correct solution fairly quickly, putting them in numerical order (from her point of view, left to right): angel (‘engel’, with ‘en’ meaning ‘one’ in Norwegian), tomato (‘tomat’, with ‘to’ meaning ‘two’), tree (‘tre’ meaning both ‘tree’ and ‘three’), four-leaf clover (‘firkløver’, with ‘fir’ meaning ‘four’), fifty kroner (‘femtilapp’, with ‘fem’ meaning ‘five’), and then sextant (‘sekstant’, with ‘seks’ meaning ‘six’). She earns first place, having solved the task faster than Einar. After she finds out that she beat Einar, she punches his arm.
• Steinar initially expresses that there are lots of ways they could be ordered, such as by height, weight, width, or when they were invented. He attempts the most ideas out of everyone, initially trying to compare their weights, which he gives up on fairly quickly. Then he tries to come up with a story where the angel looks through the sextant to the tree, and also there’s a tomato. He then considers alphabetical order. While considering this, he counts that there are six items, and announces that he has figured it out, declaring that the items represent his name, which he begins to order: fifty kroner (‘S’ for ‘spenn’ – a slang term for Norwegian currency), tree (‘T’ for ‘tre’), angel (‘E’ for ‘engel’), sextant (‘I’ for ‘instrument’). He then gets stuck when he realises he still has the three letters ‘NAR’ left, and only two items. His final solution is by height: angel, tree, tomato, sextant, four-leaf clover, fifty kroner. He ends up with only the angel in the right position, and comes in last place.