Puzzletober 2025: Drink
The newcomer walks downstairs and enters the lounge. The walls are painted a uniform green, in contrast with the mostly red furniture. Since there aren't any windows in this room, nor is there any electric lighting in the hotel, the atmosphere is set by wall-mounted candles. The clerk sits at a spruce bar on the side of the room farther from the dining room door and has a cup of a bottle of something cheap from behind the bar. The newcomer sits at a stool beside him.
The clerk says, "Fancy a drink? It's just past five-o-clock. Perfect time for it." When the newcomer declines, the clerk says, "I never told you my name, did I? My surname has a whimsy to it, but you can call me by my first name, Dan." The newcomer nods and surveys the space behind the bar. On the various shelves are oddly shaped wooden containers. When he points them out, Dan says, "There used to be a fellow who came here with Anastasia every day. Charming gent. About her age. Bit eccentric, in the right way. He's into woodworking. He stopped coming, maybe a year ago. Don't know why. We ought to invite him next year! Nobody comes here except for all of them, and me, and today, you. A stranger! Fancy that!" Dan smiles facing nearly in the opposite direction from the newcomer.
Rules: The Aquarium puzzle below contains six tanks, but their shapes and locations must be deduced from the filling diagrams. Measurements indicate the number of cells of the tank that would be filled if the water level in the tank reaches that height. All the cells in any row of any tank are horizontally consecutive, and all the cells in any tank are orthogonally connected.
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