6x5 logic grid puzzles

Six houses and five categories: thirty facts, and a street one house longer than Einstein’s riddle. The extra house matters more than it sounds, because “next door to” and “left of” clues now leave many more possibilities open.

These are the largest puzzles on Lantern Lane and the same size as the Sunday daily puzzle. Each takes most solvers well over half an hour.

The puzzles

Play any of them in your browser. Your progress is saved on this device, and every puzzle has the answer at the bottom of its page.

A taste of puzzle 1

6 neighbours live in houses 1 to 6. Here are its clues:

1. The rabbit owner 🐇 is not the coffee drinker ☕.
2. Finn is not the rabbit owner 🐇.
3. The pilot ✈️ lives behind the blue door.
4. The dog owner 🐕 lives directly to the left of Ada.
5. The neighbour with the violet door lives directly to the left of Dev.
6. The neighbour with the blue door lives next door to the neighbour with the violet door.
7. The tea drinker 🍵 lives directly to the left of the baker 🥖.
8. The pilot ✈️ lives directly to the left of Ada.
9. The goldfish owner 🐟 lives next door to the tea drinker 🍵.
10. The water drinker 💧 lives next door to the cocoa drinker 🍫.
11. The neighbour with the red door lives somewhere to the left of Esme.
12. The neighbour with the white door lives next door to the doctor 🩺.
13. Finn lives next door to the neighbour with the yellow door.
14. The cocoa drinker 🍫 lives next door to the chemist ⚗️.
15. Dev lives somewhere to the left of Esme.
16. The dog owner 🐕 lives next door to the goldfish owner 🐟.
17. The neighbour with the blue door lives directly to the left of the cocoa drinker 🍫.
18. The milk drinker 🥛 lives somewhere to the left of the juice drinker 🧃.
19. Dev lives directly to the left of the goldfish owner 🐟.
20. The cat owner 🐈 lives somewhere to the left of Bram.
21. The juice drinker 🧃 lives next door to the teacher 📚.
22. Dev lives next door to the milk drinker 🥛.
23. The tortoise owner 🐢 lives next door to the chemist ⚗️.
24. Esme lives next door to the coffee drinker ☕.
25. The neighbour with the blue door lives next door to the neighbour with the yellow door.
26. The cat owner 🐈 lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the yellow door.

How to approach a six-house grid

Spend the first few minutes only on position clues. Write down every edge effect, then look for two clues about the same item; their overlap is usually small.

“Is not” clues are worth more here than in smaller grids. With six options in a row, every one you remove is a step closer to a forced placement.

Or play today’s daily puzzle, a new street every day from a gentle Monday to a fiendish Sunday.