Einstein's Riddle!
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Now answer the question understated based on the following hints-
• 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 homeowner 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 German lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blend 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 Bluemaster drinks beer.
• The Norwegian smokes prince.
• The German lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
Question:- Who owns the fish?
History Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. Its not hard, you just need to pay attention and be patient. Please don't search the answer on the net.
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[Note: Many of you may think that you have seen this question before. However, if you read carefully, the nationalities were changed from the typical version that is floating around the internet. Hence, the answer is not German. - Calvin]
Who owns the fish? The answer can come from a process of elimination from the clues given. Let us first organize the facts. What are the house colors, nationalities, beverages, pets, and cigars involved?
Now it is a process of linking up the data into 5 sets. Let's arrange the houses first. It is given that the German lives in the first house. and his neighbor on the right is the blue house. His house is not blue, also not red which the Brit lives in. It is not green as the green house's neighbor is white and not blue. It is not white either. Therefore, the first house, where the German lives is yellow and he smokes Dunhill. The first house is yellow and the second, blue, and its owner keeps a horse. The center house can either be red or green. It is given that the center homeowner drinks milk and the green homeowner drinks coffee. Therefore, the center house is red, where the Brit, who drinks milk, lives. The houses from left are yellow, blue, red, green and white.
It is known now that Dane drinks tea, Brit drinks milk, green homeowner drinks coffee, and Bluemaster smoker drinks beer, the German in yellow house and smokes Dunhill must be drinking water. His blue house neighbor must be smoking Blend. The blue homeowner who smokes Blend and keeps horse cannot be the Swede who keeps dog and Norwegian who smoke Prince, he must be the Dane who drinks tea. The German smokes Dunhill and the Norwegian smokes Prince; as the Pall Mall smoker keeps birds, he cannot be the Swede who keeps a dog. He must be the Brit. As one of Blend smoker Dane's neighbors the German or Brit keeps cats. As the Brit keeps birds, the German keeps cats. What is left is the Norwegian keeps fish.