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.
  1. The Brit lives in the red house
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets
  3. The Dane drinks tea
  4. As you look at the 5 houses from across the street, the green house is adjacent to the left of the white house
  5. The green house owner drinks coffee
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds
  7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
  8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
  12. The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks juice
  13. The German smokes Prince
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
  15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Question: Who owns the fish?

Answer: here
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1 Comment »

  1. 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.

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