Hard Einstein riddle 2 · 5 houses, 5 categories

Hard Einstein riddle 2Hard5 houses

The new neighbours want to know who lives where. The old ones only speak in clues.

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
Hobby: chess, jazz, knitting, cycling, poetry
Job: pilot, doctor, painter, teacher, chemist
Door: red, blue, green, yellow, white
Pet: dog, parrot, goldfish, rabbit, tortoise

What the neighbours say

1The neighbour with the green door lives next door to the tortoise owner 🐢.
2The tortoise owner 🐢 lives directly to the left of the dog owner 🐕.
3Ada lives next door to Cleo.
4The tortoise owner 🐢 lives somewhere to the left of the parrot owner 🦜.
5The jazz fan 🎷 lives next door to the poet 🖋️.
6Cleo lives next door to the neighbour with the red door.
7The poet 🖋️ lives behind the blue door.
8Esme is not the parrot owner 🦜.
9The doctor 🩺 is not the rabbit owner 🐇.
10The rabbit owner 🐇 does not live behind the white door.
11The neighbour with the yellow door lives next door to the dog owner 🐕.
12Cleo lives next door to the tortoise owner 🐢.
13Bram lives next door to the cyclist 🚲.
14The jazz fan 🎷 lives next door to the teacher 📚.
15Esme is not the knitter 🧶.
16The chess player ♟️ lives behind the yellow door.
17The painter 🎨 lives directly to the left of the rabbit owner 🐇.
18The goldfish owner 🐟 lives directly to the left of the tortoise owner 🐢.
19The chemist ⚗️ lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the yellow door.
20Cleo lives somewhere to the left of the dog owner 🐕.
21The goldfish owner 🐟 does not live behind the green door.

About this puzzle

Hard Einstein riddle 2 is one of 8 hard Einstein riddles on Lantern Lane. It has 5 houses, 5 categories and 21 clues, and like every puzzle here it has exactly one answer that you can reach by logic alone.

Show the answer

House	Neighbour	Hobby	Job	Door	Pet
1	Cleo	🖋️ poetry	📚 teacher	Blue	🐟 goldfish
2	Ada	🎷 jazz	⚗️ chemist	Red	🐢 tortoise
3	Esme	🚲 cycling	🎨 painter	Green	🐕 dog
4	Bram	♟️ chess	✈️ pilot	Yellow	🐇 rabbit
5	Dev	🧶 knitting	🩺 doctor	White	🦜 parrot