Five houses stand in a row numbered 1 to 5 from left to right. House 1 is Red, and House 5 is Green. The White house is immediately to the left of the Green house. The Blue house is somewhere between the Red house and the Yellow house. What color is House 3?
Yellow.
House 1 is Red and House 5 is Green. White is immediately left of Green, so House 4 is White. This leaves positions 2 and 3 for Blue and Yellow. For Blue to be between Red (1) and Yellow, Yellow must be to the right of Blue. Thus, House 2 is Blue and House 3 is Yellow.
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Logic riddles give you a few facts and ask what must be true. List what you know, cross out what cannot be, and see what is left.
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