Question

Six persons, A, B, C, D, E and F, live in six bungalows, three of which face North and three face South. The bungalows are named after six different flowers: Yarrow, Periwinkle, Rose, Orchid, Blue Star and White Primrose, not necessarily in that order. The following facts are known:
1. C lives in the Yarrow bungalow and faces South.
2. There is no bungalow to the left of White Primrose.
3. The bungalow of D is to the right of the bungalow opposite that of B.
4. The bungalow opposite C is Periwinkle.
5. The bungalow opposite B faces North and it is not Rose.
6. The Blue Star bungalow is to the immediate left of Rose, and it faces North.
7. E lives in a bungalow that is to the right of F.

Who lives in the Orchid bungalow?

• A. A
• B. B
• C. E
• D. D

Hint:

Work out which three flowers sit on the North side first, using the clue about the bungalow opposite C.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

A quicker route here is to build the whole picture as a small grid first, then simply read off the answer instead of chasing each clue one at a time.

1. Fix the two rows: three bungalows face North, call them left to right N1, N2, N3, and three face South, call them S1, S2, S3, with each Ni sitting directly across from Si.
2. Lock the North row: the bungalow opposite C is Periwinkle, so Periwinkle is on the North side since C faces South. Blue Star sits right next to Rose on its left, and it also faces North. That uses up all three North slots between Periwinkle, Blue Star and Rose. Since White Primrose (on the South side) must have nothing to its left, the only workable placement is Periwinkle at N1, Blue Star at N2 and Rose at N3.
3. Lock the South row: C sits opposite Periwinkle, so C sits at S1 in the Yarrow bungalow. Because the South row faces the opposite direction, its own leftmost spot is the one farthest from N1, which is S3. White Primrose goes there, leaving Orchid at S2.
4. Place B: the bungalow opposite B faces North and is not Rose. Rose sits at N3, so B is not at S3. S1 already belongs to C, so B must sit at S2, the Orchid bungalow.

Running back through all seven original conditions against this layout shows none of them are broken, which confirms the deduction is correct rather than just one possible guess.

Let's summarize:

• North row, left to right: Periwinkle, Blue Star, Rose.
• South row, in its own left to right sense: White Primrose, Orchid, Yarrow.
• B occupies the Orchid bungalow.

So the person living in the Orchid bungalow is B, option (b).