This is a well-known
puzzle that can be easily solved if you have patience and a love for
squares. Sometimes people refer to it as Einstein's puzzle for being
complex and simple at the same time. However, no one really knows
who the original author is.
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours.
In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners
drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar,
and keep a certain pet.
Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish? |
| The Brit lives in
a red house. |
| The Swede keeps dogs
as pets. |
| The Dane drinks tea. |
| The green house is
on the immediate left of the white house. |
| The green house owner
drinks coffee. |
| The person who smokes
Pall Mall rears birds. |
| The owner of the
yellow house smokes Dunhill. |
| The man living in
the house right in the middle drinks milk. |
| The Norwegian lives
in the first house. |
| The man who smokes
Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats. |
| The man who keeps
horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill. |
| The owner who smokes
Blue Master drinks beer. |