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Einstein's Riddle
There are 5 houses of 5
different colours. In each
house lives a person of a different nationality.
Each of the 5 residents drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a
certain brand of cigar, and keeps a certain pet.
None of them have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or
drink the same beverage. The question is:
Who owns the fish? Clues:
► The Brit lives in the red
house. ► The Swede keeps dogs as
pets. ► The Dane drinks tea. ► The green house is on
the left of the white house. ► The resident of the
green house drinks coffee. ► The person who smokes
Pall Mall rears birds. ► The resident of the
yellow house smokes Dunhill. ► The resident of the
centre house drinks milk. ► The Norwegian lives in
the first house. ► The person who smokes
Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. ► The person who keeps
the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill. ► The person who smokes
Bluemasters drinks beer. ► The German smokes
Prince. ► The Norwegian lives
next to the blue house. Einstein's Riddle: HintStatements 8 and 9 give us definite information, the first house belongs to a Norwegian and the third house's owner drinks milk. Statement 9 together with statement 14 allow us to deduce that the second house is blue. The possibilities for all the remaining assignments are summarized in the following table. Printing this table and crossing off possibilities that can be eliminated using the statements is a good way to proceed.
The Answer The German owns the fish.
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