The Conservatory Daily find-the-liar puzzle #50 · Nov 7, 2026

About this case

Daily #50 opens the door on the conservatory, 29 squares of floor on a 6 × 5 board. With glass on three sides, the conservatory is always the brightest room in the house. It’s the family’s first daily in the conservatory. Dad, the Kid, Grandma and Rex were all there, and one of them is fibbing. The case file asks: Who watered the tulips with Dad's cold tea? What they saw, or didn’t, is about the plant, the wicker chair and the ball, and each other. Move them around the conservatory until every story fits but one.

Date

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Board

6 × 5 squares

Walls inside

0

Witnesses

4

In the room

• Plant tall
• Newspaper flat
• Palm tall
• Potting bench low
• Table low
• Wicker chair low
• Ball flat
• Rug flat

The tall things in the conservatory: the plant and the palm. Every pair of eyes stops there. Down at the Kid’s height there are the potting bench, the table and the wicker chair, low enough for Dad and Grandma to see over. The newspaper, the ball and the rug lie flat: everyone sees straight past. The room isn’t a plain rectangle: one of the board’s 30 squares are cut away.

How they see in here

• Dad sees his whole row and column, 6 squares across and 5 down, until something tall gets in the way.

• The Kid sees his row and column too, but he’s short, so the low things in here stop him as well as the tall ones.

• Grandma sees only two squares each way, eight ways round, diagonals included; tall things block her.

• Rex can’t see at all: he smells the eight squares around him, straight through furniture.

Every rule, with pictures, is in How to play.

A tip for this room

Rex’s nose is the shortest reach in the house: anything he smelled was right next to him. That leaves few squares to try.

How everyone did

58 detectives have finished Daily #50 so far.

Caught the liar first try

74%

Solved it

90%

Middle time

1:18

Counted from everyone’s first try, once 20 have finished; never a name or anyone’s own time.

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