Hard Einstein riddle 7 · 6 houses, 5 categories

Hard Einstein riddle 7Fiendish6 houses

A new street map is being drawn, and the neighbours have offered to help. Sort of.

6 neighbours live in a row of houses numbered 1 to 6 from left to right. Each house has exactly one of each of these:

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

What the neighbours say

1The neighbour with the green door lives next door to the milk drinker 🥛.
2Dev lives somewhere to the left of the teacher 📚.
3The neighbour with the green door lives directly to the left of Dev.
4The chess player ♟️ lives next door to the poet 🖋️.
5Bram lives next door to the poet 🖋️.
6The gardener 🌱 does not live behind the red door.
7The cyclist 🚲 lives behind the green door.
8The baker 🥖 lives somewhere to the left of the jazz fan 🎷.
9The pilot ✈️ lives next door to the neighbour with the green door.
10The chemist ⚗️ lives next door to the cocoa drinker 🍫.
11Cleo lives somewhere to the left of the painter 🎨.
12The chemist ⚗️ lives next door to the juice drinker 🧃.
13The cyclist 🚲 does not live in house 3.
14The chemist ⚗️ lives directly to the left of the teacher 📚.
15The neighbour with the red door lives next door to the water drinker 💧.
16The coffee drinker ☕ lives next door to the jazz fan 🎷.
17The pilot ✈️ lives directly to the left of the doctor 🩺.
18Ada lives directly to the left of the painter 🎨.
19Ada lives directly to the left of the neighbour with the blue door.
20The neighbour with the green door lives somewhere to the left of Cleo.
21The neighbour with the white door lives next door to the cyclist 🚲.
22The water drinker 💧 lives next door to the gardener 🌱.
23The juice drinker 🧃 lives next door to the cyclist 🚲.
24Esme is the coffee drinker ☕.
25The chemist ⚗️ lives next door to the neighbour with the violet door.

About this puzzle

Hard Einstein riddle 7 is one of 8 hard Einstein riddles on Lantern Lane. It has 6 houses, 5 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	Job	Door	Drink	Hobby
1	Finn	✈️ pilot	White	🥛 milk	🌱 gardening
2	Bram	🩺 doctor	Green	💧 water	🚲 cycling
3	Dev	🥖 baker	Red	🧃 juice	🖋️ poetry
4	Cleo	⚗️ chemist	Yellow	🍵 tea	♟️ chess
5	Ada	📚 teacher	Violet	🍫 cocoa	🎷 jazz
6	Esme	🎨 painter	Blue	☕ coffee	🧶 knitting