Puzzle Pack #2 Puzzle 32 Answer

Alice's clue says there are no innocents in the overlap between the people above Zoe and the people who neighbor Peter. That shared group is exactly Maria and Rose, and there are already 0 known innocents in it. So Maria and Rose cannot be innocent, which makes Maria and Rose criminals.

Rose’s clue says that row 1 contains exactly two criminals, and those two must be connected. In row 1, Alice is already innocent, so the two criminals have to come from Barnie, Carl, and Donald. For the criminals in that row to be connected, Carl has to be one of them. So Carl must be criminal.

Rose’s clue says row 1 has exactly two criminals, and those two must be connected. In row 1, Alice is innocent and Carl is already a criminal, so among the still-relevant people here, only Barnie and Donald can join Carl to satisfy that row-1 restriction. Carl’s clue says an odd number of the shared group B1 Barnie, D1 Donald, and D2 Isaac are innocent. With those two clue limits applying only to Barnie, Donald, and Isaac, Isaac is the one whose status is fixed by them. So Isaac must be criminal.

Isaac's clue says Hilda has exactly 3 innocent neighbors, and exactly 2 of those innocents are in row 3. Among Hilda's neighbors in row 3, Maria is already a criminal, so the row 3 part still needs 2 innocents. The only unknown people left there are Kumar and Lisa. So Kumar and Lisa must be innocent.

Hilda’s clue says her neighbors contain exactly 3 innocents in total. Kumar and Lisa are already known innocents among her neighbors, so the three still-unknown neighbors of Hilda, Barnie, Donald, and Gabe, contain exactly 1 innocent. In that group, the only people who can still be that innocent are Barnie or Donald, so Gabe cannot be the innocent one. So Gabe must be criminal.

Rose's clue says the two criminals in row 1 are connected. In row 1, the only connected criminal pair can be Barnie with Carl or Carl with Donald, so among Barnie and Donald exactly one must be innocent. Kumar's clue says Carl's neighbors contain an odd number of innocents. Among those neighbors, Gabe and Isaac are already criminal, so the only innocents there can come from Barnie, Donald, and Hilda. Since Barnie and Donald already contribute exactly one innocent, adding Hilda as innocent would make that total even instead of odd. So Hilda must be criminal.

Lisa’s clue says there are more innocent clerks than innocent doctors. Right now doctors have 0 innocents, and clerks also have 0 known innocents, so the clerks need at least one innocent person. Maria’s clue says Isaac’s neighbors and Julie’s neighbors have the same number of criminals. Isaac’s neighbors already have 3 known criminals, while Julie’s neighbors have 1, and the other unknown people involved in these clues are Flora, Noah, and Olive. If Donald were criminal, then those same unknown people would have to make both clues true at once, and that cannot be done. So Donald cannot be criminal. That makes Donald innocent.

Rose’s clue says that the two criminals in row 1 are connected. In row 1, Alice is innocent, Carl is criminal, Donald is innocent, and the only person there still unknown is Barnie. Since row 1 must contain exactly two criminals and they have to be connected, Barnie has to be the second criminal next to Carl. So Barnie must be criminal.

Gabe’s clue says column A is the only column with exactly 2 innocents. Column D already has 1 known innocent, and Zoe is the only unresolved person left in column D. If Zoe were innocent, then column D would also end up with exactly 2 innocents, which the clue does not allow. So Zoe must be criminal.

Column A has exactly 2 innocents, and Alice is already one of them. So if Sam were innocent, then Flora, Julie, and Noah would all have to be criminals to keep column A at exactly 2 innocents. Isaac has exactly 3 criminal neighbors, and Maria says Isaac and Julie have the same number of criminal neighbors, so Julie’s neighbors must also contain exactly 3 criminals. With Flora and Noah criminal in that case, Julie’s neighbors would already reach that total along with Gabe, so Olive would have to be innocent. That would give column B exactly 2 innocents already, with Kumar and Olive, so Wanda would also have to be innocent to avoid creating another column with exactly 2 innocents. But then row 5 would not be able to have more criminals than innocents. So Sam must be criminal.

Column A has exactly 2 innocents, and Alice is already one of them, so column A needs exactly 1 more innocent. The group that is both above Sam and neighboring Olive is A3 Julie and A4 Noah, and that group contains exactly 1 innocent. Flora is in column A, but she is not part of that exact-count group. So the remaining innocent required in column A is already accounted for by Julie or Noah, which means Flora cannot be innocent. That makes Flora criminal.

Isaac’s neighbors already contain 3 criminals, while Julie’s neighbors currently contain 2, so Maria’s clue means Julie’s unknown neighbors in row 4, Noah and Olive, must contribute exactly 1 more criminal between them. Barnie’s clue says row 4 has an odd number of criminals, and row 4 already has 1 known criminal, Rose. So among Noah, Olive, and Peter, there must be an even number of criminals. Since Noah and Olive contribute exactly 1 criminal, Peter has to supply one more to make that row-4 total even among the unknowns. So Peter must be criminal.

Gabe’s clue says column A is the only column with exactly 2 innocents. Column C already has 1 known innocent, and Xavi is the only unresolved person left in that column. If Xavi were innocent, then column C would also end up with exactly 2 innocents, which the clue forbids. So Xavi must be criminal.

Column A has to contain exactly 2 innocents, and right now the only innocent already there is Alice, with Julie and Noah still unknown. Sam’s neighbors must contain an odd number of innocents, and those neighbors are exactly Noah, Olive, and Wanda, with none of them known innocent yet. Since Noah is the only person who is part of both of those clue-limited groups, the two clues together pin down the column A choices so that Noah is the second innocent in column A and Julie is not. So Julie must be criminal, and Noah must be innocent.

Maria’s clue says Isaac and Julie have the same number of criminal neighbors. Isaac’s neighbors already have 3 criminals, while Julie’s neighbors currently have 2, and the only unknown person among the neighbors involved here is Olive. So Olive has to be the extra criminal needed to make Julie’s total match Isaac’s, and Olive must be criminal.

Gabe’s clue says column A is the only column with exactly 2 innocents, so column B, column C, and column D cannot also have exactly 2 innocents. Column C and column D already have 1 innocent each, and the only unknown person this clue can still affect is Wanda in column B. Column B already has 1 known innocent, so if Wanda were innocent then column B would also have exactly 2 innocents, which the clue rules out. So Wanda must be criminal.