Animal Shelter

A 3×3 grid of houses contains families of animals (each “family” comprising one or more of the same type of animal). “Adjacent” or “neighbor” means directly north, south, east, or west (not diagonal). All animals are truthful.

Ant

• My northern neighbors have 1 more resident than I do.
• The number of floors in my house is equal to the number of squirrels.
• The number of residents in my house is half the number of floors.

Badger

• My house has half the number of floors of the southwest house.
• My house has two fewer residents than floors.
• My two neighboring houses contain animals with strictly more legs than me.

Beaver

• I live in the center house.
• My family is the same size as the northwest house’s.
• My house has the same number of floors as the northwest house.

Chicken

• My family is 3 smaller than my eastern neighbors’.
• The honeybees live in my column.
• The number of floors in my house is 4 times the number of residents.

Eagle

• Both of my neighbors’ houses have queens.
• My family is the same size as the beavers’.
• My house has 5 floors and is tied with one other house for second tallest.

Honeybee

• My family is strictly larger than the other families in my row and my column.
• My family is the same size as the squirrels’.
• My house has the same number of floors as the ants’.

Rabbit

• I live in the southernmost row.
• My family has 6 members.
• My house has strictly more floors than any other.

Spider

• All of my neighbors’ names either start with the same letter as mine or end with the same letter as mine.
• My family size is less than my number of floors, and is even.
• My house has the same number of floors as the house north of mine.

Squirrel

• I live in the southeast house.
• My family is twice as large as the spiders’.
• My house is one of 3 that have the same number of floors as residents.