The Living Room Daily find-the-liar puzzle #51 · Nov 8, 2026

About this case

Daily #51 is set in the living room: a 6 × 5 board, 26 squares of floor with three short walls inside. The living room is the family’s favorite place to sprawl. This is the fifth daily case in the living room. Four of the Fibbersons were there: Dad, the Kid, Grandma and Rex. One of them is fibbing. On the case file: Who moved the plant in front of the TV? What they say is about the clock, the plant, the vase and the ball, and about each other. Try them in different squares of the living room until only one story can’t be made to fit.

Date

Sunday, November 8, 2026

Board

6 × 5 squares

Walls inside

3

Witnesses

4

In the room

• Bookshelf tall
• Clock tall
• Plant tall
• Rug flat
• Vase low
• Ball flat
• Sofa low

The bookshelf, the clock and the plant are tall, so nobody sees past them, but Rex smells straight through. Low: the vase and the sofa. Only the Kid’s view stops at a low thing; the grown-ups see right over. Underfoot: the rug and the ball, flat, in nobody’s way. The room isn’t a plain rectangle: four of the board’s 30 squares are cut away.

How they see in here

• In the living room, Dad looks along a row of six squares and a column of five, and a wall or something tall cuts either one short.

• 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; walls and tall things block her.

• Rex sniffs rather than looks, and only the eight squares touching his own; not even a wall stops his nose.

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

A tip for this room

Low things are where the Kid and Dad part ways: the Kid’s view stops at them and Dad’s doesn’t. A square that works for one may not work for the other.

How everyone did

76 detectives have finished Daily #51 so far.

Caught the liar first try

43%

Solved it

80%

Middle time

2:45

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

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