Hard Einstein riddle 6 · 5 houses, 6 categories

Hard Einstein riddle 6Devious5 houses

Somebody left a parcel at the wrong house. The clues will set it right.

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

What the neighbours say

1The rabbit owner 🐇 lives somewhere to the left of the coffee drinker ☕.
2The tortoise owner 🐢 lives next door to the milk drinker 🥛.
3The parrot owner 🦜 does not live behind the violet door.
4The parrot owner 🦜 lives somewhere to the left of the goldfish owner 🐟.
5The painter 🎨 lives directly to the left of the jazz fan 🎷.
6The juice drinker 🧃 lives directly to the left of the dog owner 🐕.
7The neighbour with the yellow door lives somewhere to the left of the poet 🖋️.
8The neighbour with the red door lives somewhere to the left of Dev.
9House 1 has the green door.
10The rabbit owner 🐇 does not live behind the green door.
11The rabbit owner 🐇 is not the doctor 🩺.
12The coffee drinker ☕ lives next door to the juice drinker 🧃.
13The poet 🖋️ does not live behind the violet door.
14The knitter 🧶 does not live behind the yellow door.
15Esme is not the gardener 🌱.
16The cocoa drinker 🍫 lives next door to the jazz fan 🎷.
17The parrot owner 🦜 lives directly to the left of the dog owner 🐕.
18Dev lives next door to the painter 🎨.
19Ada is not the gardener 🌱.
20The neighbour with the green door lives somewhere to the left of Ada.
21The chemist ⚗️ lives next door to the jazz fan 🎷.
22The neighbour with the red door lives next door to the knitter 🧶.
23The rabbit owner 🐇 lives next door to the chess player ♟️.
24The baker 🥖 does not live behind the yellow door.
25The neighbour with the yellow door lives somewhere to the left of Finn.
26The baker 🥖 lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the violet door.
27The rabbit owner 🐇 lives somewhere to the left of the pilot ✈️.

About this puzzle

Hard Einstein riddle 6 is one of 8 hard Einstein riddles on Lantern Lane. It has 5 houses, 6 categories and 27 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	Door	Drink	Job	Hobby
1	Esme	🐢 tortoise	Green	💧 water	🩺 doctor	🧶 knitting
2	Bram	🐇 rabbit	Red	🥛 milk	🥖 baker	🌱 gardening
3	Ada	🦜 parrot	Yellow	🧃 juice	🎨 painter	♟️ chess
4	Dev	🐕 dog	Violet	☕ coffee	✈️ pilot	🎷 jazz
5	Finn	🐟 goldfish	Blue	🍫 cocoa	⚗️ chemist	🖋️ poetry