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Hard Logic Problem


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It's said that 98% of people can't figure this out. I haven't really had the time to really try, but I thought you guys might like it. Anyway here it is

There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keeps a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same variety of pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.

Clues:

* The Brit lives in the red house.
* The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
* The Dane drinks tea.
* Looking from the front, the green house is just to the left of the white house.
* The green house's owner drinks coffee.
* The person who smokes Pall Malls raises birds.
* The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
* The man living in the center house drinks milk.
* The Norwegian lives in the leftmost house.
* The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
* The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
* The owner who smokes Bluemasters also drinks beer.
* The German smokes Prince.
* The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
* The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the pet fish?

here is the website i found it. Enjoy


spyware's Avatar
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It's really easy, I think Einstein made this riddle to test his methods of solving these problems rather then just being busy with random riddling.


ynori7's Avatar
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good riddle, it was entertaining for a few minutes.

i went with something similar to a truth table to solve it.


eXXon's Avatar
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awesome riddle.. i really enjoyed solving this one.. we should get more of these, they actually make you think


ghost's Avatar
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yeah pretty good. there's a very methodical way of doing it, i think thats what inory was hinting at.


eXXon's Avatar
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yea i did truth table too.. but the paper i used to write everything down was a mess in the end.. which is exactly what i was hoping for


ghost's Avatar
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I used nPr to test the total amount of permutations in the equation that were possible, making a table and using the perm. to get the amount of possibilities, only writing those down. I think I overdid it.


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it probably took me 30 minutes and i'm 19..


ghost's Avatar
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I liked this. Then again I love all logic problems.