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Einstein Riddle Worksheet

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Clue Order

Step 1: Use clue 8 (You will solve 1 square).

Step 2: Use clue 9 (You will solve 1 square in this step, 2 squares in total).

Step 3: Use clue 14 (You will solve 1 square in this step, 3 in total).

Step 4: Use clues 4, 5 (You will solve 3 squares in this step, 6 in total).

Step 5: Use clue 1 (You will solve 3 squares in this step, 9 in total).

Step 6: Use clue 7 (You will solve 1 square in this step, 10 in total).

Step 7: Use clue 11 (You will solve 1 square in this step, 11 in total).

Step 8: Use clues 2, 3, 12, 13 (You will solve 9 squares in this step, 20 in total).

Step 9: Use clue 15 (You will solve 2 squares in this step, 22 in total).

Step 10: Use clue 6 (You will solve 1 square in this step, 23 in total).

Step 11: Use clue 10 (You will finish the puzzle!).

Clues

  1. The designer lives in the red house.
  2. The policeman has 2 pet dogs.
  3. The farmer likes eating pizza.
  4. The green house is to the left of the white house.
  5. The person who lives in the green house likes eating natto.
  6. The person who enjoys skateboarding has a pet turtle.
  7. The person who lives in the yellow house goes hiking on the weekends.
  8. The person who lives in the center house loves chocolate.
  9. The doctor lives in the first house.
  10. The person who likes singing karaoke lives next door to the man with a cat.
  11. The man who has horses lives next to the man who likes hiking.
  12. One person likes eating strawberries and drawing comics in his free time.
  13. The DJ often goes horseback riding.
  14. The doctor’s neighbor lives in the blue house.
  15. The karaoke singing person’s neighbor likes ramen.

Solution

Step 1: C8. House 3=chocolate (1 solved)

Step 2: C9. House 1=Dr (+1 2 solved)

Step 3: C14. The doctor’s neighbor lives in the blue house. Dr has only one neighbor, so House 2=blue (+1 3 solved)

Step 4: C4,5. The green house is to the left of the white house, green=natto. Since H2 is blue, the green house is either H3 or H4. H3 resident likes chocolate, not natto, so House 4=green, natto and House 5=white (+3 6 solved)

Step 5: C1. Designer=red. Only H1 and H3 have unassigned colors, and H1 is the dr, so House

3=designer, red. By process of elimination, House 1=yellow (+3 9 solved)

Step 6: C7. yellow=hiking=House 1 (+1 10 solved)

Step 7: C11. Horses are next door to hiking. Hiking=H1 and has only 1 neighbor, so House

2=horses (+1 11 solved)

Step 8: C2, 3, 12, 13. Farmer=pizza(3), can only be H2 or H5. Strawberries=drawing (12), can only be H2 or H5. Strawberries, comics cannot be farmer, doctor, designer, or DJ (13, he likes horseback riding). So, strawberries=comics=policeman=dogs (2). All houses except H5 have another category accounted for, so House 5=strawberries, comics, policeman, dogs. Farmer=pizza, and must now be House 2. House 2=farmer, pizza. Through elimination, House 4=DJ (and horseback riding). Again, through elimination, House 1=ramen. (+9 20 solved)

Step 9: C15 Ramen is H1 and has only 1 neighbor, so House 2=karaoke. Through elimination, House 3=skateboarding. (+2 22 solved)

Step 10: C6. Skateboarding=turtle=House 3 (+1 23 solved)

Step 11: C10. karaoke is next door to cats, House 1=cats. Through elimination, House 4=fish (+2 FINISH)

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