6x5 logic grid puzzle 1 · 6 houses, 5 categories

6x5 logic grid puzzle 1Fiendish6 houses

A quiet street, a few neighbours, and a postman with the wrong list.

6 neighbours live in a row of houses numbered 1 to 6 from left to right. Each house has exactly one of each of these:

Neighbour: Ada, Bram, Cleo, Dev, Esme, Finn
Door: red, blue, green, yellow, white, violet
Pet: cat, dog, parrot, goldfish, rabbit, tortoise
Drink: coffee, tea, milk, juice, water, cocoa
Job: baker, pilot, doctor, painter, teacher, chemist

What the neighbours say

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

About this puzzle

6x5 logic grid puzzle 1 is one of 6 6x5 logic grid puzzles on Lantern Lane. It has 6 houses, 5 categories and 26 clues, and like every puzzle here it has exactly one answer that you can reach by logic alone.

Show the answer

House	Neighbour	Door	Pet	Drink	Job
1	Cleo	Violet	🐈 cat	🥛 milk	🎨 painter
2	Dev	Blue	🐕 dog	🍵 tea	✈️ pilot
3	Ada	Yellow	🐟 goldfish	🍫 cocoa	🥖 baker
4	Finn	Red	🦜 parrot	💧 water	⚗️ chemist
5	Bram	White	🐢 tortoise	☕ coffee	📚 teacher
6	Esme	Green	🐇 rabbit	🧃 juice	🩺 doctor