The question who owns the fish hints

Recall hint no. Only left beverage is tea which makes Dane owner of the house no. Which also makes Swede the owner of house no.

So only left cigar brand Pall Mall is owned by Brit of House no. But the hint no. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email. Taking stock of the situation Before we try to solve this problem, we need to know what we have. From the question and hints we know: There are 5 different nationalities of owner: Brit Dane Swede Norwegian German There are 5 colors of the house: red white green yellow blue There are 5 pets: birds horses cats dogs fish There are 5 brands of cigars: Pall Mall Dunhill Blends Prince BlueMaster There are 5 varieties of beverages they drink: tea coffee water beer milk Solution Now arrange them like in the following matrix.

Logically deducing from the hints: Let us start with the most obvious hint. Consequently, Brit lives in the house no. So, cats live in the house no. Here is what our solution look like: From the hint no. Let us see where we are till now. Henceforth the House No. Going further, hint no. Thus, the German owns the fish. Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain pet. This was given to me as an exercise in logic puzzles. I think it is a great puzzle. According to the worksheet I was given this puzzle is attributed to Albert Einstein.

Clue 1, the Brit in the red house, which was mentioned above, is actually used fourth, and again two more times later on. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Einstein's Problem There are 5 houses sitting next to each other, each with a different color, occupied by 5 guys, each from a different country, and with a favorite drink, cigarette, and pet. Here are the facts: The British occupies the red house.

The Swedish owns a dog. The Danish drinks tea. The green house is on the left of the white house. The owner of the green house drinks coffee. The person who smokes "Pall Mall" owns a bird. The owner of the yellow house smokes "Dunhill". The owner of the middle house drinks milk. The Norwegian occupies the 1st house. The person who smokes "Blend" lives next door to the person who owns a cat. The person who owns a horse live next door to the person who smokes "Dunhill". The person who smokes "Blue Master" drinks beer.

The German smokes "Prince". The Norwegian lives next door to the blue house. The person who smokes "Blend" lives next door to the person who drinks water.

The question is: Who owns the fish? Doctor Ian answered, first giving a link to a site that includes a solution which I will let you find for yourself if you give up : This is a famous problem, attributed to Albert Einstein.