My IRL cake day is coming up soon, so I decided to do GAs that end on that day. Levels are 2-5.
I'm tired of quizes, ciphers and all that crap so I decided to steal idea of some old puzzle.
There was the guy named Epstein or something like that. He invented time, space, quantum physics and the zebra puzzle. Only top 98% could solve it.

Anyway. There are 5 guys who live next to each other on the same street. They all have first name, middle name, last name, distinctive feature, pet and favorite hobby.

  1. The guy with a middle name Hunter is next to the guy with a first name David.
  2. The owner of the tiny octopus is exactly to the right of the tall stature guy.
  3. The guy obsessed with the Large Hadron Collider has a last name Vale.
  4. The guy doing oversized clothing on a spare time has a middle name Warren.
  5. The guy with a last name Smith is next to the owner of the massive rhino.
  6. Warren (still middle name) is exactly to the right of the guy with a long nose.
  7. The tall guy is somewhere between the guy who collects miniatures and Hunter, in that order.
  8. The guy with a middle name Quinton is next to the guy with a last name Petrenko.
  9. Vaugh (middle name) is at one of the ends.
  10. The guy with a first name Harvey assembles miniatures.
  11. The guy with a last name Naiman is exactly to left of the guy interested in microbiology.
  12. The guy with a patronim Dmitrievich (we will use it as a middle name) is exactly to the left of Hunter (middle name too).
  13. The owner of the small mouse is next to the guy who learn macroeconomics for fun.
  14. The LHC guy is next to the guy with a last name Smith.
  15. The owner of the great dane is exactly to the left of the fan of the Large Hadron Collider.
  16. Alex (first name) is next to the dog owner from the previous sentence.
  17. Hunter is the weirdo who loves macroeconomics news.
  18. The guy with a humongous ego is exactly to the left of Vale (last name).
  19. The guy with big belly is somewhere to the right of Alex (first name).
  20. In the second house is the guy with a first name Ivan.
  21. Smith is exactly to the right of the macroeconomics fan.
  22. The guy with short hairs is somewhere to the left from the guy with a last name Miller.
  23. Someone owns the big horse, don't remember who.
    In which house does Edward live?

Rules? You can and probably should give each other any hints/clues/ways for a solution other than direct answers.
You can ask me any question and I'll happily ignore them. If there is any mistake - well, I don't speak English and regret nothing.

Solution:
Build the spreadsheet. There are 5 columns in total. How many symbols does the GA code consist of? There are 3 rows of names and 3 rows of big/small adjectives. Where on SG big/small adjectives are used? Use 1st letters from names and big/small adjectives as upper/smaller case and you'll have the code for the GAs. 3 in total. In their descriptions you'll get symbols for the 4th GA. In 4th you'll get the answer for the "house" question. The house was just the red herring to hide the codes in plain sight - in the spreadsheet itself.

Prizes:

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1 week ago*

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Very impressive puzzle! No guessing needed, you know when you found the solution. Thanks a lot!

5 days ago
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Any hints for someone who has been looking at a spreadsheet for three days without any progress?

4 days ago
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you are looking for 5 letters, ignore the 2solve me question/answer.

4 days ago
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If it's a visual thing, i don't see it :/ I thought I did, but i don't :D

2 days ago
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bump so more people try to solve it! it's a really fun puzzle

4 days ago
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I made a spreadsheet and I think I have the answer, but I still don't know the answer format :/

4 days ago
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Bump for solved.
Pretty fun puzzle, spent a few hours cracking it, the hints really helped.

3 days ago
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Solved bump.

3 days ago
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Bump 😉

3 days ago
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Number 7: The tall guy is somewhere between the guy who collects miniatures and Hunter, in that order.

Does "In that Order" mean, that the order of the three previous mentioned people must be read left-to-right?
So from relative left to right: minature, then tall guy, then Hunter?
Or could they also be from relative left to right: Hunter, tall guy, miniature?

I made an .ods file (Libre Office Calc, similar to Excel) where you can enter your observations. Can be downloaded at https://limewire.com/d/XKGZ1#iCM38X7qW6
There is also a .png file, if you prefer to print and do it by hand. Same as the one included here.

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"Between" means just as you first interpret it; miniature is somewhere to the left of Mr. Tall, and Hunter is somewhere to the right of him.

2 days ago
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Bump for solved. Hints made it doable for me.

2 days ago
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It needs more bumps!

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2 days ago
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BUMP for solved
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The crazy thing when you search intensely a solution, it's that you will find different answers thinking "it's fit with the hints, I think I find it!" and it's most of the time wrong!

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Bump for solved
Happy soon-to-be cake day escollo, and thank you for the puzzle!

23 hours ago
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Bump for solved!

16 hours ago
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Bump for just barely solved! You really do need to consider the entire answer. One word of caution, though: completing the zebra/einstein puzzle will give you the information you need to search for the final answer, but the final answer itself, that singular long word, is not in the answer to that puzzle. To put it another way, don't go counting the number of letters in the names and traits, or try to rearrange them once they're in their places.

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Bump for finally solved! Hints were useful but I somehow dismissed the correct course action early on and ended up spending much more time solving this puzzle.

12 hours ago
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Bump for finally solved it!

8 hours ago
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Love the concept ! There was similar stuff in activity books we buy on summer vacation, always was my favorite growing up

7 hours ago
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Bump for not solved,
Completed the Einstein puzzle, don't know what answer to look for.
Will be back to try again later today.

7 hours ago
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Bump for solved!

3 hours ago
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Bump for solved! Thanks <3

really helped for me that I had put my zebra puzzle answer in graph as:
first name 1 2 3 4 5
middle name 1 2 3 4 5
last name 1 2 3 4 5
description 1 2 3 4 5
pet 1 2 3 4 5
interest 1 2 3 4 5

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Finally solved😮‍💨 bump

2 hours ago
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Solved finally... but it's too late to enter >.<

1 hour ago
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from zebra I found this strange nonogram with multiple solutions :) https://rosiminc.github.io/sg-nonograms/?id=hHaSmbNoEEDCBRHC

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