Harvard Puzzle: "House"

Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas '52

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UPDATE: the puzzle was updated on June 22 after a solve alerted us the error. If you downloaded before then, you might have better luck with the latest version!

"House" solvers
(The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically)

1.     Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
2.     Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
3.     Chris McManus – Silver Spring, MD
4.     Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
5.     Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
6.     Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
7.     Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
8.     Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
9.     Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
10.  Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Peggy Bedell – Northampton, MA
Jeff Courtright – Normal, IL
Stan Francuz – Forster NSW, Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Ralph Jones  – Aurora, CO
Robert Leavitt – Fredericton, NB, Canada
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Dexter Senft  – Bedford, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Margaret Webster  – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

You can find all 35 puzzles published in Harvard Magazine between 1986 and 1998 at John de Cuevas’s website—puzzlecrypt.com—under Harvard Puzzles. You will also find additional puzzles and contact information there and can subscribe to his mailing list.

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