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Zebra Puzzles

Daily Zebra Puzzles #47 Saturday, November 14, 2026 hard

Five neighbors live side by side on Harbor Lane. Each one owns a different pet, prefers a different drink, and has a different house color. Use the clues below to match every detail to the correct resident.

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PeoplePetsDrinksHouse Colors
HousesAliceBenClaraDavidEmmaDogCatBirdFishHamsterTeaCoffeeMilkJuiceWaterRedBlueGreenYellowWhite
House 1
House 2
House 3
House 4
House 5

Tap once for ✓, twice for ✕. Swipe the grid sideways to see every category.

  1. The resident of House 3 drinks Milk.
  2. The resident of House 4 is not Ben.
  3. Ben lives immediately to the left of the Bird owner.
  4. The Milk drinker lives next to the person in the Red house.
  5. The Cat owner lives immediately to the left of the Coffee drinker.
  6. The Milk drinker lives next to the person in the Blue house.
  7. The Tea drinker lives somewhere to the left of the person in the Blue house.
  8. The Fish owner lives somewhere to the left of the person in the Blue house.
  9. The resident of House 5 is not Emma.
  10. The Milk drinker lives somewhere to the left of the person in the Yellow house.
  11. Clara lives next to the person in the Blue house.
  12. Alice lives immediately to the left of the Hamster owner.
  13. Clara lives somewhere to the left of the Water drinker.
  14. The Hamster owner lives in the White house.
  15. Alice drinks Tea.

Zebra puzzles are the classic "who lives where" logic challenge: several houses stand in a row, each holding a different resident, pet, drink and hobby, and a list of clues tells you who is next to whom, who lives where, and who owns what. Your job is to match every detail to the right house using deduction alone, the same format as Einstein’s famous five-house riddle.

This is today’s daily zebra puzzle, identical for every player and reset at midnight UTC. Each puzzle is generated with exactly one deducible solution, so it can always be finished with pure logic. Past puzzles live in the archive, and unlimited mode generates fresh ones whenever you want more.

How to Play Zebra Puzzles

New to the format? The full rules take two minutes to learn: read the step-by-step guide with a worked example on the how to play zebra puzzles page, then come back for today’s puzzle.

Zebra Puzzles Tips

  • Translate every clue into grid marks immediately. "The Coffee drinker lives next to the Cat owner" rules out positions at the far ends for that pair before you know either party.
  • Hunt for fixed positions first. A person pinned to a specific house ("Ben lives in House 2") anchors several other deductions around it.
  • Use "somewhere to the left of" aggressively. Even without exact positions, left-of relations can cut a candidate’s possible houses roughly in half.
  • When a house has only one candidate left for a category, fill it in and cross out that value everywhere else, then re-check every adjacency clue touching it.
  • Watch for the chain reaction. In a five-house zebra puzzle, placing the fourth house’s pet often forces the fifth by elimination.

Zebra Puzzles Difficulty Levels

Daily zebra puzzles scale through the week: Monday and Tuesday feature three houses with two attribute categories for a gentle start, Wednesday to Friday add a fourth category, and the weekend delivers the full five-house, five-category riddle in the spirit of Einstein’s original.

Unlimited mode lets you pick the size yourself, from quick three-house warm-ups to five-category marathons. Every generated puzzle is verified to be solvable without guessing.

Printable Zebra Puzzles

Every zebra puzzle can be printed with the story, the full clue list and an empty solving grid, perfect for solving away from a screen. The answer table is printed at the bottom of the sheet, so you can check yourself without a device.

Print today’s zebra puzzles or pick any date from the archive to print an older puzzle.

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