Hard Einstein riddle 5 · 5 houses, 6 categories

Hard Einstein riddle 5Devious5 houses

The neighbours have swapped stories over the fence all week. Time to sort them out.

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: Bram, Cleo, Dev, Esme, Finn
Pet: cat, dog, parrot, goldfish, tortoise
Hobby: chess, gardening, jazz, knitting, poetry
Door: red, blue, green, yellow, violet
Job: baker, pilot, doctor, teacher, chemist
Drink: tea, milk, juice, water, cocoa

What the neighbours say

1The pilot ✈️ lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the blue door.
2The cat owner 🐈 is not the water drinker 💧.
3Finn lives next door to the milk drinker 🥛.
4The cat owner 🐈 lives next door to the dog owner 🐕.
5The pilot ✈️ lives somewhere to the left of the tea drinker 🍵.
6The neighbour with the violet door lives directly to the left of the juice drinker 🧃.
7The chess player ♟️ lives next door to the gardener 🌱.
8The neighbour with the yellow door lives next door to the cocoa drinker 🍫.
9Esme lives somewhere to the left of the poet 🖋️.
10The neighbour with the yellow door lives next door to the chemist ⚗️.
11Finn is not the pilot ✈️.
12Finn lives directly to the left of the dog owner 🐕.
13The teacher 📚 lives directly to the left of Bram.
14Finn lives next door to the neighbour with the blue door.
15The parrot owner 🦜 lives directly to the left of Finn.
16Finn lives next door to the neighbour with the red door.
17Finn lives next door to the gardener 🌱.
18The gardener 🌱 lives somewhere to the left of the dog owner 🐕.
19Dev lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the violet door.
20The tortoise owner 🐢 lives next door to the knitter 🧶.
21The neighbour with the green door lives somewhere to the left of the doctor 🩺.
22The knitter 🧶 is not the teacher 📚.
23The tea drinker 🍵 lives next door to the water drinker 💧.
24The dog owner 🐕 lives next door to the water drinker 💧.
25Esme is the dog owner 🐕.

About this puzzle

Hard Einstein riddle 5 is one of 8 hard Einstein riddles on Lantern Lane. It has 5 houses, 6 categories and 25 clues, and like every puzzle here it has exactly one answer that you can reach by logic alone.

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House	Neighbour	Pet	Hobby	Door	Job	Drink
1	Dev	🦜 parrot	🌱 gardening	Red	✈️ pilot	🥛 milk
2	Finn	🐟 goldfish	♟️ chess	Green	🥖 baker	💧 water
3	Esme	🐕 dog	🎷 jazz	Blue	📚 teacher	🍵 tea
4	Bram	🐈 cat	🧶 knitting	Violet	⚗️ chemist	🍫 cocoa
5	Cleo	🐢 tortoise	🖋️ poetry	Yellow	🩺 doctor	🧃 juice