Hard Einstein riddle 1 · 5 houses, 5 categories

Hard Einstein riddle 1Hard5 houses

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

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:

Neighbour: Ada, Bram, Cleo, Dev, Esme
Job: baker, pilot, doctor, teacher, chemist
Door: red, green, yellow, white, violet
Drink: coffee, milk, juice, water, cocoa
Hobby: chess, gardening, jazz, cycling, poetry

What the neighbours say

1The pilot ✈️ lives somewhere to the left of Cleo.
2Dev lives somewhere to the left of the baker 🥖.
3The poet 🖋️ does not live behind the violet door.
4The neighbour with the yellow door lives next door to the gardener 🌱.
5The neighbour with the violet door lives somewhere to the left of the cocoa drinker 🍫.
6The neighbour with the violet door lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the white door.
7Bram lives directly to the left of the chess player ♟️.
8The juice drinker 🧃 is also the gardener 🌱.
9The baker 🥖 lives next door to the doctor 🩺.
10The juice drinker 🧃 lives next door to the water drinker 💧.
11Esme lives next door to the neighbour with the yellow door.
12The cyclist 🚲 lives behind the green door.
13The neighbour with the red door lives directly to the left of the neighbour with the yellow door.
14The pilot ✈️ is not the water drinker 💧.
15Cleo lives next door to the baker 🥖.
16The chemist ⚗️ lives directly to the left of the neighbour with the yellow door.
17The chess player ♟️ lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the green door.
18The neighbour with the red door lives somewhere to the left of the juice drinker 🧃.
19The neighbour with the yellow door lives somewhere to the left of the jazz fan 🎷.
20The doctor 🩺 lives next door to the neighbour with the yellow door.
21The baker 🥖 lives next door to the neighbour with the white door.
22The coffee drinker ☕ is also the poet 🖋️.

About this puzzle

Hard Einstein riddle 1 is one of 8 hard Einstein riddles on Lantern Lane. It has 5 houses, 5 categories and 22 clues, and like every puzzle here it has exactly one answer that you can reach by logic alone.

Show the answer

House	Neighbour	Job	Door	Drink	Hobby
1	Bram	⚗️ chemist	Red	☕ coffee	🖋️ poetry
2	Dev	✈️ pilot	Yellow	🥛 milk	♟️ chess
3	Esme	🩺 doctor	Violet	🧃 juice	🌱 gardening
4	Ada	🥖 baker	Green	💧 water	🚲 cycling
5	Cleo	📚 teacher	White	🍫 cocoa	🎷 jazz