Einstein's Riddle

[Lucid]

It's logic puzzle time!

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• There are 5 houses that are each a different colour.
• There is a person of a different nationality in each house.
• The 5 owners drink a certain drink. They each smoke a certain brand of cigarettes and also have a certain pet. No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigarettes nor drinks the same drink.
•The question is. “Who has the fish?”

CLUES

1. The British man lives in the red house.
2. The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The green house is to the left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person that smokes Pall Mall has a bird.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The person that smokes Blend, lives next to the one that has a cat.
11. The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.
12. The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to a blue house.
15. The person that smokes Blend, has a neighbour that drinks water.


If you do take a crack at it, post your results and conclusion below! There is only one true configuration however, but a couple assumptions on an incorrect configuration can still return the proper answer.

 

[Skyway]

For those who are to lazy or dum, I have google it.

Spoiler: Spoiler answer

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60971.html

 

[Lucid]

But googling ruins the fun!

 

[GABA]

Answer: **** you

 

[Lucid]

My Configuration was this:

Spoiler: OMG DON'T CLICK CUZ IT WILL RUIN EVERYTHING

1: yellow, norwegian, cat, dunhill, water

2: blue, danish, horse, Blend, tea

3: red, Brit, bird, pall mall, milk

4: green, German, fish, Prince, coffee

5: white, Swedish, dog, Bluemaster, beer

 

[Clayton]

First thing first, the colors. There are five houses, and sorting out the colors seems to be a first step. What I did was draw five boxes and start assigning information to each of them. It gets exponentially easier the more you eliminate who does not own what, and who lives next to what. A big hint is that #12 is an important late-puzzle clue.

First house is unknown, but a Norwegian lives there. The house to the right of that is Blue. The next house is NOT green, as green doesn't drink milk, So we have three house colors, and need to solve the last two, Yellow and Red. We see that Norbs lives in a Red house, so the only one left means Kiro lives in a yellow house. Going by the given info, we have:

Yellow, Blue, Red, Green, White

So we need to figure out who lives in the blue, green, and white houses. Time to deduce. We know the Norwegian, so lets start with identifying his smoke, drink, and pet.

This is enough to get anyone started, but below is my final configuration:

Spoiler: Solution

Kiro:
-Smoke: Dunhill
-Drink: Water
-Own: Cat
-House: Yellow

Dane:
-Drinks: Tea
-Smokes: Blend
-Own: Horse
-House: Blue

Nor'baal:
-House: Red
-Drinks: Milk
-Own: Bird
-Smokes: Pall Mall

German:
-Smokes: Prince
-Drinks: Coffee
-Own: Fish
-House: Green

Swede:
-Own: Dog
-Smokes: Bluemaster
-Drinks: Beer
-House: White

 

[Omdool]

Spoiler: My Answer Here

Spoiler: (just in case)

The Norwegian has the fish Here is my working out.

edit:
Never mind.
It was wrong.


:(

 

[Lucid]

Good try though, and you used the proper way of doing it with the grid/spreadsheet. You weren't HORRIBLY far off either.

 

[Omdool]

I missed the German and Prince clue. That's what got me. Great riddle though.

 

[Clayton]

Spoiler: My Answer Here

Spoiler: (just in case)

The Norwegian has the fish Here is my working out.

edit:
Never mind.
It was wrong.


:(

You were really close.

 

[Lucid]

How did you miss the german and prince clue?! It was the only directly stated nationality/smokes clue in the bunch

 

[Omdool]

I don't really know xD