The Six O'Clock Rush — Daily puzzle for 2026-10-31

Hard — logic-grid deduction puzzle

Use what the operators remember to work out who watched each shaft, with which snack and which badge.

At six o'clock, the whole tower wanted to go home at once. Down in the control room, the call buttons blinked faster than anyone could count, and the lifts raced up and down without a break. The four shafts ran side by side in a row, each with its number painted on the door: the first shaft was number one, the second was number two, the third was number three and the fourth was number four. Lorna, Emile, Sanjay and Freya each watched one of them, with a coloured badge clipped on and a snack close at hand. By the time the rush died down, nobody could remember who had sat where. Now Freya has the night log to fill in and needs your help to get it right.

Clues

1. The numbers on the doors of the shafts that Lorna and Emile watched added up to three.
2. Sanjay's shaft number and the shaft number of whoever had the apple came to four together, with that one number counted twice if Sanjay had the apple.
3. Whoever had the crackers and whoever wore the yellow badge sat at shafts whose numbers made six between them, a shaft counting twice if one operator had both.
4. The blue badge and the green badge were worn at two shafts whose door numbers totalled four.
5. No two of these were the same operator: Lorna, the one who had the crackers, and the one who wore the green badge.
6. Only one of these was true: Emile sat at the shaft right next to the one where the red badge was worn, or Freya sat at the shaft right next to that of whoever had the yogurt.
7. Freya, whoever had the crackers and whoever wore the green badge were three different operators.

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