Saturday. The neighbours only talk about each other now.
5 neighbours live in a row of houses numbered 1 to 5 from left to right. Each house has exactly one of each of these:
Lantern Lane is a free daily logic puzzle in the style of Einstein’s riddle, also known as the zebra puzzle. Every day there is a new street of neighbours. Use the clues to work out who lives in which house, behind which door, with which pet, drink, job and hobby.
New to these puzzles? Start with how to solve logic grid puzzles, or try the original Einstein’s riddle with a full worked solution.
Einstein’s riddle, also called the zebra puzzle, is a logic puzzle about a row of houses. Each house has one person, one colour, one pet and so on, and a list of clues lets you work out who lives where. It is often credited to Albert Einstein, but there is no evidence he wrote it; the best-known version appeared in Life International in 1962.
Yes. The daily puzzle and the archive of past daily puzzles are free to play, with no ads and no sign-up. Optional puzzle packs with extra puzzles will be available to buy.
Every day at midnight UTC. Puzzles start gentle on Monday and get harder through the week, ending with a six-house puzzle on Sunday.
No. Every puzzle has exactly one answer and can be solved by deduction alone. A move the clues do not support is counted as a mistake rather than allowed.
Press Hint in the game for a one-step explanation, or open the puzzle’s hint page for step-by-step nudges that stop well short of the full answer.