Here is the breakdown
Attribure H O U S E
1 2 3 4 5
Color yellow blue red green white
Owner Norw. Dane Brit German Swede
Drink water tea milk coffee beer
Smoke Dunhill Blend Pall Malls Prince
Blue Master
Pet cats horse birds FISH dogs
The German in house four keeps fish ! ! !
And here is how it's solved
1st let's base everything on the known facts.
1. We know from clue 8 that the owner in the center drinks milk.
2. We know from clue 9 that the Norwegian lives in the 1st house.
3. We know from clues 9 and 14 that the second house is blue.
Now:
4. Clue 4 says that the green house is on the left of the white house.
This can't be the first house, since the second house is blue,
neither can it be the last house. Clue 5 says the green house
owner drinks coffee, so it can't be the third house, so the fourth
house must be green, which means the fifth house is white.
Hence from clue 5 the owner of the fifth house drinks coffee.
5. We now have the colors for three houses. Clue says the Brit lives in
a red house, but since the Norwegian lives in the first house, then
the third house must be red and the first house is yellow, which means
that the owner of the third house is the Brit.
6. Clue 7 tells us the owner of the yellow house (the Norwegian) smokes
Dunhill,
and clue 11 tells us the horse keeper lives next to this man. So
house one
smokes Dunhill, and house two keeps horses
7. Clue 15 tells us that the Blend smoker's neighbor drinks water. House
one smokes
Dunhill (# 6 above) so house 2 can't drink water. That leaves us with
the choice
of house one or five as the water drinker. Let's assume for the
moment that house
five drinks water. Clue 12 says the Blue Master smoker drinks beer.
House one
smokes Dunhill (#6 above) so house two would have to drink beer and
house
one would drink tea. But, clue three says the Dane drinks tea and
house one is
the Norwegian, so house one drinks water and house two smokes blend.
Clue
12 says the smoker of Blue Master drinks beer and house two smokes
Blend, so
house five drinks beer and smokes Blue Master, and house two drinks
tea and
from clue 3 is the Dane.
8. We know who smokes what except for house three and house four. We also
know from
clue 13 that the German smokes Prince. The Brit lives in house three,
so house
four must be the German who smokes Prince, which means house three
smokes
Pall Malls.
9. Clue 2 tells the Swede keeps dogs, and we now know the owners of all
the homes except
for house five, so house five is the Swede and keeps dogs.
10. Clue 6 tells us the Pall Mall smoker keeps birds, so the Brit in house
three keeps birds,
which means from clue 10 that house one keeps cats.
WHICH MAKES THE GERMAN IN HOUSE FOUR THE KEEPER OF FISH!!!!!
Einstein wrote this puzzler in the last century. He said that 98% of the
people in the world cannot solve it.
Facts:
1. There are 5 different houses in 5 different colors, which stand in
a row.
2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3. These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of
cigars, and keep a certain type of pet.
4. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigars, or
drink the same drink.
Hints:
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes
Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
The question is this: WHO KEEPS FISH?
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