Featured Puzzle: Einstein Logic #1 – Tricky Treating
It’s nearly time for trick-or-treating! To get you in the mood, today is an Einstein-style logic puzzle. This block has four houses. Four children, each in different costumes, visit different ones. Of course, they are each giving away different treats. Can you deduce what costume each child wore, which house they visited, and what they received?
(Important: Read the grid from left to right for any clues referring to “before” and “after.”)
- You pass the white house sometime before the blue house.
- The red house is between the one visited by the girl with black hair and the one giving away chocolate bars.
- The pigtails made the vampire costume look more adorable than scary
- The blonde either dressed up as a devil or visited the white house, but not both.
- You have to pass up the hard peppermint candies before visiting the white house.
- The devil received peppermints at the red house.
- The pigtailed girl either visited the scary house or received chocolate, but not both.
- The house giving away glow sticks was further along the block than where the ghost stopped.
Einstein logic puzzles are distinct from the more common Zebra-style logic puzzles in not only the grid design, but that adjacency and the order from left to right matters. Be on the lookout for a future Solving Guide.
Did you figure them all out?
- The black-haired girl dressed as a ghost, and received spooky spider stickers at the scary house.
- The red house with zombie decorations saw a blonde devil child and gave him peppermints.
- “Full-size chocolate bars? Score!” exclaimed the pigtailed girl in front of the white house, as she adjusted her vampire fangs.
- The black child at the blue house wore the most creative costume – a jack o’ lantern witch – and was rewarded with glow sticks.
