posted August 24, 2007 05:22 PM         

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Who Owns The Fish?

There are five houses in a row and in five different colours.

In each house lives a person from a different country.

Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain pet.

No two people drink the same drink, play the same sport, or keep the same pet.

• The Brit lives in a red house
  
• The Swede keeps dogs
  
• The Dane drinks tea
  
• The green house is on the left of the white house
  
• The green house owner drinks coffee
  
• The person who plays polo rears birds
  
• The owner of the yellow house plays hockey
  
• The man living in the house right in the centre drinks milk
  
• The Norwegian lives in the first house
  
• The man who plays baseball lives next to the man who keeps cats
  
• The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who plays hockey
  
• The man who plays billiards drinks beer
  
• The German plays soccer
  
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
  
• The man who plays baseball has a neighbour who drinks water.
  

Who Owns The Fish?
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. He claimed that 98% of the world could not work it out. Can you?

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posted August 24, 2007 07:15 PM         

if he does'nt im gonna faint

i spent like 2 hours racking my brains on this one
... pls post the answer soon this was a real tuffie

posted August 25, 2007 12:39 AM         

Spent over an hour . . .

For the German part to work, for the third house - did you guys get:

British
Red
Milk
Polo
Birds

posted August 25, 2007 02:35 AM         

My answers were:

house 1: yellow, Norwegian, water, hockey, cats.

house 2: blue, Dane, tea, baseball, horses.

house 3: red, British, milk, polo, birds.

house 4: green, German, coffee, soccer and BINGO - FISHHHH lol

house 5: white, Swede, beer, billiards, dogs.

posted August 25, 2007 07:32 PM         

I'll find the answers in full and post 'em

Norwegian - Yellow - Water - Hockey - Cats
Dane - Blue - Tea - Baseball - Horses
Brit - Red - Milk - Polo - Birds
German - Green - Coffee - Soccer - Fish
Swede - White - Beer - Billiards - Dogs

posted August 26, 2007 05:53 AM         

but alas!