Einstein's test
Facts: There are 5 houses in 5 different colours In each house lives a person with a different nationality.. These 5 owners drink a certain 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 drink.
Hints:
The Brit lives in a 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 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 centre drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
Who keeps the fish?
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1 solution
The eight clue says the man living in the third house drinks milk.
The ninth clue says that the Norwegian lives in the first house.
The fourteenth clue says house 2, which is next to the house the Norwegian lives, is blue.
Since clue 4 says that the greenhouse, which is house 4, is to the left of house 5, which is white, clue 5 says that it's owner drinks coffee.
Clue 1 gives us that the Brit lives in house 3, the red house, so yellow must be the colour of house 1, where clue 7 says the Dunhill smoker lives.
Clue 11 says that the owner of house 2 has a horse.
Using clues 3 and 12, we can determine that the Norwegian drinks water.
Clue 15 says that the neighbour of the Norwegian smokes Blends.
Through elimination, the owner of the fifth house smokes Bluemaster and drinks Root Beer, thanks to clue 12.
The only house without a drink is the second, where the tea-drinking Dane lives.
House 4 is the only one missing either a nationality and a cigar brand, so the Prince-smoking German lives, thanks to clue 13.
Through elimination, the Brit smokes Pall Mall and the Swede lives in house 5, while clues 6 and 2 says that they have a bird and a dog, respectively.
Clue 10 says that the cat owner lives next to the Blends smoker, so the cat belongs to the Norwegian.
Case solved! The German has got the fish.