Day 20 - Neighbor

Having examined the asteroid, you look around for who may own this particular mining operation. Hiding among the rocks you find a classic donut-shaped space station! You hit the gas and fly over, docking on the station’s main ring.

When you step foot aboard, it is eerily quiet. You check the station’s computer system and see that there should be six people working on this station, but none of them appear to be here. You try to make sense of where everyone should be at, where they live, and the structure of this station, but the computer only displays a recent log of information gathered about their residences. Where can you find this station's inhabitants?

  • This is known as an Einstein puzzle. Creating a grid like this one might help you solve this puzzle.

  • Once you have matched up who lives in which sector and which numbered pod, you’ll extract one letter from each name and read those letters in order of the pod numbers. Notice how each sector has the letter X exactly once, and all the names and sectors are the same length.