Einstein’s Puzzle
I took an hour to solve the Einstein’s Puzzle. I used a spreadsheet to help me get the answer. You can give it a try to solve this:
- There are 5 houses in five different colours. They are lined up in a row side by side.
- In each house, lives a person with a different nationality.
- These 5 owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain brand of tobacco and keep a certain pet.
- No owners have the same pet, smoke the same tobacco, or drink the same drink.
- The Brit lives in the red house
- The Swede keeps dogs as pets
- The Dane drinks tea
- As you look at the 5 houses from across the street, the green house is adjacent to the left of the white house
- The green house owner drinks coffee
- The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds
- The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
- The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk
- The Norwegian lives in the first house
- The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
- The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks juice
- The German smokes Prince
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
- The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
Question: Who owns the fish?
Answer: here
Source: http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vinlin06.htm
Hensley Bass said,
March 23, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
I solved the puzzle in 42 minutes. However I already did solve the same puzzle last year when Nomad proposed it in one of its newsletters.