Medium logic puzzle 8 · 5 houses, 4 categories

Medium logic puzzle 8Tricky5 houses

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

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, Cleo, Dev, Esme, Finn
Hobby: chess, gardening, jazz, cycling, poetry
Door: red, green, yellow, white, violet
Pet: cat, dog, parrot, goldfish, tortoise

What the neighbours say

1The dog owner 🐕 does not live behind the yellow door.
2The poet 🖋️ lives somewhere to the left of Finn.
3The tortoise owner 🐢 does not live behind the yellow door.
4Cleo lives somewhere to the left of the gardener 🌱.
5The goldfish owner 🐟 does not live behind the yellow door.
6The neighbour with the white door lives next door to the tortoise owner 🐢.
7Cleo is not the chess player ♟️.
8Esme lives next door to the tortoise owner 🐢.
9The chess player ♟️ lives next door to the jazz fan 🎷.
10The dog owner 🐕 does not live behind the red door.
11Dev lives next door to the parrot owner 🦜.
12Ada lives directly to the left of Esme.
13The goldfish owner 🐟 lives somewhere to the left of the neighbour with the white door.
14The cyclist 🚲 lives somewhere to the left of Dev.
15The cyclist 🚲 is also the goldfish owner 🐟.
16Cleo lives next door to Dev.
17The neighbour with the red door lives directly to the left of the cyclist 🚲.
18Cleo lives next door to the neighbour with the violet door.

About this puzzle

Medium logic puzzle 8 is one of 8 medium logic puzzles on Lantern Lane. It has 5 houses, 4 categories and 18 clues, and like every puzzle here it has exactly one answer that you can reach by logic alone.

Show the answer

House	Neighbour	Hobby	Door	Pet
1	Ada	🖋️ poetry	Red	🐈 cat
2	Esme	🚲 cycling	Violet	🐟 goldfish
3	Cleo	🎷 jazz	Green	🐢 tortoise
4	Dev	♟️ chess	White	🐕 dog
5	Finn	🌱 gardening	Yellow	🦜 parrot