Einstein's problem
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?
The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate 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 middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks chocolate.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
ok to make things clear, everything needed to get to the solution is given, there is no hidden logic, it is a matter of elimination, trial and error, this is probably the easiest way to get to the solution in my opinion,
try solving it yourself, the solution is below, not very easy to follow the explanation but i tried, all you got to do is find the right angle to tackle this puzzle! have fun!
1. the first thing to do is to create a table where you can write down the facts
2. jot down all the obvious facts
the norwegian lives in the first house,and lives next to the blue house,the person living in the middle drinks milk,
what cannot be placed in the table but are facts should be written on a piece of paper and deduced and eliminated
the brit lives in the red house, the swede owns dogs the green house owner drinks coffee and so on.
next easy step is to figure the color of each house, the blue house is the second, the green house is on the left of the white house and the green house owner drinks coffee so the green and white houses have to be placed last.
Im only giving you the table, fill it out..... i know this is cruel but I don't give a crap, suffer!!! ok there is a bad explanation of the method below
color
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blue
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nationality
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norwegian
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beverage
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milk
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cigar
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pet
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the brit lives in the red house, and the norwegian lives next to the blue house so the brit lives in the middle, this leaves the yellow house for the norwegian, the colors are done! also the owner of the yellow house smokes dunhill.
the man who keeps horses lives next to the person who smokes dunhill, so it has to be the blue house
the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water, the man who smokes blend lives next to the man who keeps cats, here you may apply a trial and error and then cross check with the clues you'll figure that the cat owner drinks water, so the norwegian gets it( i skipped some steps coz im too lazy, or im having a tough time explaining right now!)
the guy who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water, so the blue house smokes blend
now we apply some more trial and error and logic to figure out that the swede may live only in the last 2 houses, to skip more steps let the swede take the last house and he keeps dogs, so with this probability we can put the dane in the blue house since he drinks tea! so then the swede must be the chocolate drinker
