Hard Einstein riddle 4 · 5 houses, 6 categories

Hard Einstein riddle 4Devious5 houses

A street party is planned, and the invitations need the right doors.

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, Finn
Hobby: chess, gardening, jazz, knitting, poetry
Drink: coffee, tea, milk, water, cocoa
Pet: cat, dog, goldfish, rabbit, tortoise
Door: red, blue, green, yellow, violet
Job: baker, pilot, painter, teacher, chemist

What the neighbours say

1The coffee drinker ☕ lives directly to the left of Cleo.
2The dog owner 🐕 lives directly to the left of the neighbour with the yellow door.
3Ada lives next door to the dog owner 🐕.
4The poet 🖋️ lives somewhere to the left of the cocoa drinker 🍫.
5The jazz fan 🎷 lives next door to the teacher 📚.
6Bram lives next door to the pilot ✈️.
7The teacher 📚 lives somewhere to the left of the water drinker 💧.
8The gardener 🌱 lives somewhere to the left of the cat owner 🐈.
9The baker 🥖 lives somewhere to the left of the cat owner 🐈.
10The milk drinker 🥛 lives somewhere to the left of Bram.
11Dev lives next door to the goldfish owner 🐟.
12Finn lives directly to the left of Cleo.
13Finn does not live behind the red door.
14The dog owner 🐕 lives next door to the painter 🎨.
15The neighbour with the violet door lives somewhere to the left of the tortoise owner 🐢.
16The poet 🖋️ lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the red door.
17The chess player ♟️ lives next door to the water drinker 💧.
18The poet 🖋️ lives somewhere to the left of the teacher 📚.
19The dog owner 🐕 lives directly to the left of the tea drinker 🍵.
20The coffee drinker ☕ lives next door to the neighbour with the blue door.
21The tortoise owner 🐢 lives directly to the left of Cleo.
22Ada is not the milk drinker 🥛.
23The goldfish owner 🐟 lives next door to the neighbour with the red door.

About this puzzle

Hard Einstein riddle 4 is one of 8 hard Einstein riddles on Lantern Lane. It has 5 houses, 6 categories and 23 clues, and like every puzzle here it has exactly one answer that you can reach by logic alone.

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House	Neighbour	Hobby	Drink	Pet	Door	Job
1	Dev	🖋️ poetry	🥛 milk	🐕 dog	Violet	🥖 baker
2	Ada	🎷 jazz	🍵 tea	🐟 goldfish	Yellow	🎨 painter
3	Bram	🌱 gardening	🍫 cocoa	🐇 rabbit	Red	📚 teacher
4	Finn	♟️ chess	☕ coffee	🐢 tortoise	Green	✈️ pilot
5	Cleo	🧶 knitting	💧 water	🐈 cat	Blue	⚗️ chemist