Hard Einstein riddle 8 · 6 houses, 5 categories

Hard Einstein riddle 8Fiendish6 houses

Evening on the lane. The windows light up one by one as the facts fall into place.

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

What the neighbours say

1The chemist ⚗️ lives somewhere to the left of Cleo.
2The poet 🖋️ does not live in house 4.
3The knitter 🧶 lives next door to the poet 🖋️.
4The goldfish owner 🐟 lives next door to the neighbour with the yellow door.
5The neighbour with the blue door lives directly to the left of the knitter 🧶.
6The neighbour with the green door lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the yellow door.
7The cyclist 🚲 lives somewhere to the left of the tortoise owner 🐢.
8Dev lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the red door.
9Bram lives directly to the left of Dev.
10The chess player ♟️ lives next door to the neighbour with the red door.
11The neighbour with the white door lives somewhere to the left of Ada.
12The baker 🥖 lives somewhere to the left of the painter 🎨.
13Bram is not the parrot owner 🦜.
14Finn lives directly to the left of the jazz fan 🎷.
15Esme lives somewhere to the left of the chess player ♟️.
16The gardener 🌱 lives next door to the pilot ✈️.
17Finn lives directly to the left of the cat owner 🐈.
18Esme lives next door to the gardener 🌱.
19The knitter 🧶 lives somewhere to the left of the teacher 📚.
20The doctor 🩺 does not live behind the violet door.
21The cat owner 🐈 lives directly to the left of the baker 🥖.
22The doctor 🩺 lives directly to the left of the dog owner 🐕.
23The tortoise owner 🐢 does not live in house 6.
24The neighbour with the red door lives next door to the neighbour with the green door.
25The gardener 🌱 is also the painter 🎨.
26Ada is not the gardener 🌱.
27The cyclist 🚲 lives somewhere to the left of the rabbit owner 🐇.

About this puzzle

Hard Einstein riddle 8 is one of 8 hard Einstein riddles on Lantern Lane. It has 6 houses, 5 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	Hobby	Job	Pet	Door
1	Finn	🚲 cycling	⚗️ chemist	🦜 parrot	Violet
2	Bram	🎷 jazz	🩺 doctor	🐈 cat	White
3	Dev	🖋️ poetry	🥖 baker	🐕 dog	Blue
4	Esme	🧶 knitting	✈️ pilot	🐢 tortoise	Green
5	Cleo	🌱 gardening	🎨 painter	🐟 goldfish	Red
6	Ada	♟️ chess	📚 teacher	🐇 rabbit	Yellow