Bonnie bought a bag of birdseed. She left it in her apartment (#5) before she went to work, intending to fill the feeder that afternoon. But when she got back, the bag of birdseed was gone!

  There were four other people living in the same apartment building as her, all of whom were avid birdwatchers like Bonnie. One of them must have done it. Look at the clues below. If you know everybody's name, apartment number (#1 through #4), and favourite bird, you will know who is guilty.

1. The guilty person's apartment number is not numbered one higher or one lower than Hal's.
2. Joe's favourite bird is the crow; his apartment number is one lower than that of Ike (who doesn't like robins).
3. The guilty person's apartment is not #3 (the number of the finch-lover's).
4. Gil is neither at apartment #1 nor the wren-lover.

Whodunit?

I agree that Joe and his (now fat) crow are reponsible, although why he broke into an apartment 4 floors up, on the off chance of finding bird seed is beyond me. 

My entire solution is based, however, on the premise that if the guilty person is not 1 above or below Hal then, another innocent person is.  Is that playing within the 'rules' of this puzzle. 

Posted by kenneth Black on 2004-12-13 21:00:22