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Question: This is solvable
1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
The Question is “Who Owns the fish?”
Facts:
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 green house’s owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it.
It can be done! Be part of the 2% that COULD!
Answers: This is solvable
1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
The Question is “Who Owns the fish?”
Facts:
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 green house’s owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it.
It can be done! Be part of the 2% that COULD!
...It is easiest to start with a table of the various house colors, nationalities, drinks, sports and pets. This helps us to determine what information we have used and what still needs to be put into the table.
Colors: Countries: Drink: Sport: Pet:
Red Brit Tea Polo Dogs
Green Swede Coffee Hockey Bird
White Dane Milk Baseball Cats
Yellow Norwegian Beer Billiards Horses
Blue German Water Soccer Fish
Next, we need to create a table. We shall use the following categories:
House Color
Nationality
Drink
Sport
Pets
And so, now we shall use the above 15 facts to fill in the table. It is best not to go through the facts in order. Rather, by trying to use the options that limit the number of possibilities.
We begin with fact #9 that the Norwegian lives in the first house.
Norwegian
Next we use fact #14 that the Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
Blue
Norwegian
Now, we have to interpret fact #4 to mean that the green house is directly to the left of the white house. This gives us two possible options.
Blue Green White
Norwegian
Blue Green White
Norwegian
Next, we use fact #1 that the Brit lives in the Red house. (There is only one option in each of the two above.)
Blue Green White Red
Norwegian Brit
Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Brit
Now, we can use both fact #5 (Green house drinks coffee) and fact #7 (Yellow house plays hockey). Note: The only remaining house has to be the yellow house.
Yellow Blue Green White Red
Norwegian Brit
Coffee
Hockey
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Brit
Coffee
Hockey
Next, we use fact #8 that the owner of the center house drinks milk. This eliminates our first possibility, so we see that the Brit drinks milk.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Brit
Milk Coffee
Hockey
Using fact #11 (the man with Horses lives next to the man who plays Hockey), we have the following.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Brit
Milk Coffee
Hockey
Horses
Using fact #3 (The Dane drinks tea), we have two possibilities.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit
Tea Milk Coffee
Hockey
Horses
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Brit Dane
Milk Coffee Tea
Hockey
Horses
Now we use fact #2 (The Swede has dogs) to create three possibilities.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit Swede
Tea Milk Coffee
Hockey
Horses Dogs
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit Swede
Tea Milk Coffee
Hockey
Horses Dogs
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Brit Swede Dane
Milk Coffee Tea
Hockey
Horses Dogs
Now, it is easy to apply fact #13 (The German plays soccer). There is only one place that this fits in each of the above three possibilities.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit Swede German
Tea Milk Coffee
Hockey Soccer
Horses Dogs
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Tea Milk Coffee
Hockey Soccer
Horses Dogs
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian German Brit Swede Dane
Milk Coffee Tea
Hockey Soccer
Horses Dogs
Next, we use fact #12 (The man who plays Billiards also drinks Beer) to eliminate all but the second option, leaving us with just one option.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Hockey Soccer Billiards
Horses Dogs
Now, using fact #6 (The man who plays Polo also has birds), we see that it only fits with the Brit.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Hockey Polo Soccer Billiards
Horses Birds Dogs
There is only one position for the man who plays Baseball (The Dane).
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Hockey Baseball Polo Soccer Billiards
Horses Birds Dogs
Using fact #15 (The man who drinks Water is a neighbor of the man who plays Baseball) and fact #10 (The man with Cats lives next to the man who plays Baseball) to fill in the rest of the table.
Note: We have to assume that in fact #15, neighbor refers to next door neighbor, not just one of the five nearby houses.
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Hockey Baseball Polo Soccer Billiards
Cats Horses Birds Dogs
And so, we see that there is only one spot left not filled in. The question asks who owns the fish. Now, since we must assume that one of the five owns the fish, in which case the German would own the fish. Thus, our completed table looks like the following:
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Hockey Baseball Polo Soccer Billiards
Cats Horses Birds Fish Dogs
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