The Laundry Daily find-the-liar puzzle #49 · Nov 6, 2026
Who shrank the teddy's sweater in the wash?
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Play Daily #49About this case
Daily #49 opens the door on the laundry, 24 squares of floor on a 5 × 5 board with three short walls inside. On spin day the whole room rattles like a drum kit. The family has been here for four earlier dailys. Dad, the Kid, Grandma and Rex were all there, and one of them is fibbing. The case file asks: Who shrank the teddy's sweater in the wash? What they saw, or didn’t, is about the plant, the ball and the teddy, and each other. Move them around the laundry until every story fits but one.
- Date
- Friday, November 6, 2026
- Board
- 5 × 5 squares
- Walls inside
- 3
- Witnesses
- 4
In the room
- Plant tall
- Cabinet tall
- Washing machine tall
- Laundry basket low
- Counter low
- Ball flat
- Teddy flat
Tall here: the plant, the cabinet and the washing machine. Tall things block every view, though not Rex’s nose. Low: the laundry basket and the counter. Only the Kid’s view stops at a low thing; the grown-ups see right over. Underfoot: the ball and the teddy, flat, in nobody’s way. The room isn’t a plain rectangle: one of the board’s 25 squares are cut away.
How they see in here
Dad looks straight along his row and column; on this board that’s 5 squares across and 5 down, unless a wall or something tall stops him.
The Kid looks along his row and column like Dad, but the room’s low things block him too.
Grandma is nearsighted: two squares along each of her eight directions and no further, anywhere in the laundry.
Rex the dog goes by his nose. He smells the eight squares next to him, and nothing in the laundry blocks a smell.
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A tip for this room
Mind the cut-away squares: some rows and columns in the laundry are shorter than the board’s 5 × 5 suggests.
How everyone did
93 detectives have finished Daily #49 so far.
- Caught the liar first try
- 73%
- Solved it
- 90%
- Middle time
- 2:02
Counted from everyone’s first try, once 20 have finished; never a name or anyone’s own time.
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