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.

What is the name of E's bungalow?

• A. White Primrose
• B. Rose
• C. Blue Star
• D. Periwinkle

Hint:

Once you know the North row order is Periwinkle, Blue Star, Rose from left to right, use the clue about E sitting to the right of F to place E.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Instead of chasing clues one by one, it helps to fill in a small table of who lives where, working outward from the flower positions to the actual people.

1. Flowers first: Periwinkle sits opposite C (a South facing bungalow), so Periwinkle is North side. Blue Star sits right before Rose and faces North too, so all three, Periwinkle, Blue Star and Rose, occupy the whole North row. That leaves Yarrow, Orchid and White Primrose for the South row.
2. Order within each row: White Primrose (South) must sit with nothing to its left, which only fits together with Blue Star sitting right before Rose if Periwinkle is the very first North bungalow. So North reads Periwinkle, Blue Star, Rose from left to right. C sits opposite Periwinkle, giving Yarrow at the South row's first slot from the North row's viewpoint. Because the South row faces the other way, its own left to right reading is reversed, so its own leftmost bungalow, reserved for White Primrose, is actually the one across from Rose. That leaves Orchid in the middle South slot.
3. People next, starting with B: the bungalow across from B is not Rose, so B cannot sit across from Rose. The only other open South slot is the middle one, Orchid, so B lives there.
4. Then D: D sits to the right of the bungalow across from B, which is the middle North bungalow, Blue Star. The only North bungalow further right is Rose, so D lives there.
5. Finally A, E and F: only the first two North bungalows and the last South bungalow remain, for A, E and F. Since E must sit to the right of F, and the two North bungalows run left to right in the normal sense, F takes the first North bungalow and E takes the second. A is left with the remaining South bungalow.

The second North bungalow is Blue Star, so E's home is the Blue Star bungalow.

Let's summarize:

• North row: F in Periwinkle, E in Blue Star, D in Rose.
• South row: C in Yarrow, B in Orchid, A in White Primrose.

Therefore, E lives in the Blue Star bungalow, option (c).