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Neighbours in a line
Read direction and adjacency from a simple picture.
Clue type: Linear adjacency
GUIDED WALKTHROUGHStep 1 of 3
Neighbours in a line
Each person has a different place. Use the labelled picture to read the position clues.
| Places | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locker 1 | Locker 2 | Locker 3 | Locker 4 | ||
| People | Ada | ||||
| Ben | |||||
| Cy | |||||
| Dee | |||||
Look here This step✓ Match× Not a match
The clues
- Ada's locker is immediately to the left of Ben's.
- Ben has locker 3.
STEP 1
Use the picture's direction
Clue type: Linear adjacency
Lockers are numbered left to right. Immediately left means the lockers touch, with Ada on the left. Ada cannot have locker 4, and Ben cannot have locker 1.
A common mistake
Left of by itself does not mean immediately left of. Here the clue explicitly says immediately.