House Puzzles (Puzzleship)
Rate itA row of houses, four attributes, and clues that allow one arrangement.
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House Puzzles are the Zebra Puzzle in its oldest shape: a row of houses, each with a colour and three other attributes, and clues that describe the arrangement without stating it. Puzzleship keeps four attributes throughout and stretches the row up to eight houses.
About House Puzzles (Puzzleship)
House Puzzles line up houses side by side. Each has a colour and three other attributes that change from puzzle to puzzle, such as pets, instruments, drinks or cars, and nothing repeats, so every assignment removes that item from the other houses. Clues either name a house or describe who lives next to whom.
Where most Zebra Puzzles grow by adding attributes, these grow by adding houses: four at the easy end, rising one at a time to eight at the hardest. You mark cells in a grid, crossing out and assigning, and cells that become impossible are crossed out for you.
Puzzleship publishes six puzzles of House Puzzles a day, graded from very easy to ultra hard. Each day's puzzles are numbered and dated, the same for every player, and a new set goes up at 13:00 UTC, although the page says midnight your time; earlier days stay playable in the archive. The site is free with ads, and a premium plan removes them.
How to play House Puzzles (Puzzleship)
- Open House Puzzles and pick one of the day's six puzzles.
- Sort the clues: apply those naming a specific house first.
- Tap a cell once to cross it out, twice to assign it, a third time to clear it.
- Use relational clues to cross out more cells as the row fills.
- Finish when every house has one item from each attribute.
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Tips
- Cross out early; most clues rule something out even when they place nothing.
- Somewhere to the left removes one item from the last house and the other from the first.
- Treat two items linked by a clue as one unit.
- Being next to an end house leaves only one neighbour.
Questions
How many House Puzzles puzzles are there each day?
Six, graded from very easy to ultra hard.
When do new House Puzzles puzzles appear?
At 13:00 UTC each day. The page says the next set comes at 00:00 your time, but each day's set is scheduled for 13:00 UTC, so in the Americas it arrives the evening before or in the morning, and in Europe in the afternoon.
Can I play earlier days?
Yes. Puzzleship keeps past puzzles in an archive.
Is it free?
Yes, with ads. A Puzzleship premium plan removes them.
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