1. in a street there are 5 houses, painted 5 different colours
2. in each house lives a person of different nationality
3. the 5 homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigars, and keep a different pet.

the question:
who owns the fish?

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 next to and on the left of the white house
5. the owner of the green house drinks coffee
6. the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7. the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. the man living in the centre house drinks milk
9. the Norwegian lives in the first house
10. the man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
11. the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
12. the man 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 Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

can you solve the riddle?

(apparently only 2% of people can figure out the answer)

   

Give me a day or two to try.

   

Under the assumption that the green house is located immediately to the left of the white house, the German is the only feasible owner of the fish.


As long as you draw out a grid sheet, you should be able to figure it out.

   

why don't u draw out the grid?
show us.

   

WOOT!!! I figured it out! It is german! hahahaha, owned! I have the grid on my computer, I will show how. in a sec.

   

Try Googling some of the phrases, it's what Drunk Canuck did.

   

Got er in about 15mins... two pieces of paper.

It's a simple process of elimination game... Sodoku's are usually harder than this.

   

I know, lol, I was tempted to do that, but I swear on my life and the life of everyone on the planet I did not look at the answer online. I don't even know if I am right.

   

Wooteh, I am teh smart ass

   

Five columns, with the houses in order, with each of the five choices under each column. Some are easy to get rid of (the Norwegian, and the blue house), and the rest is just going through the clues, crossing off the ones that don't work. If [x] is next to [y], then anywhere where [x] doesn't have a [y] on either side of it gets crossed out. If the clue is "[x] has a [y]", as soon as you know one spot doesn't either contain [x], or [y], you can cross out the other one.

I looked up the solution to see if I was correct, and apparently people wrote computer programs to solve it. You'd spend more time coding than you would thinking it through.

   

going for the ten spot

   

we used to solve this riddle in highschool at logic classes and it took longer than 15 min that time! i was afraid of making an accidental mistake somewhere in the middle and had to recheck every step few times