BRAINTEASER

This quiz is supposed to have been written by Einstein. He said that 98% of the people in the
world cannot solve the quiz. Could you be among the other 2%?

• There are 5 houses, each is a different color.

• In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
• These 5 owners all drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a
certain pet.
• No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigar or drinks the same drink
as another owner.

1: The Briton lives in a red house.

2: The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3: The Dane drinks tea
4: The green house is on the left of the white house (they are also next door to each other)
5: The green house owner drinks coffee
6: The person who smokes Pall Mall rears 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 Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats
11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
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.

The question is: WHO KEEPS FISH?

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9: The Norwegian lives in the first house

1 2 3 4 5
Color
Man Norwegian
Pet
Smoke
Drink

14: The Norwegian lives next to the blue house

1 2 3 4 5
Color Blue
Man Norwegian
Pet
Smoke
Drink

8: The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk

1 2 3 4 5
Color Blue
Man Norwegian
Pet
Smoke
Drink Milk

4: The green house is on the left of the white house (they are also
next door to each other)
5: The green house owner drinks coffee
 1 2 3 4 5
Color Blue Green White
Man Norwegian
Pet
Smoke
Drink Milk Coffee
(Note -
Since House 2 we already know is blue, and the green and white house are next to
each other, they must be 3 and 4 OR 4 and 5. However the owner of House 3 drinks
milk. So 4 must be the Green House and 5 must be the White House)

1: The Briton lives in a red house.

1 2 3 4 5
Color Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Briton
Pet
Smoke
Drink Milk Coffee

7: The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill

1 2 3 4 5
Color Yellow Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Briton
Pet
Smoke Dunhill
Drink Milk Coffee
11:
The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes
Dunhill
 1 2 3 4 5
Color Yellow Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Briton
Pet Horses
Smoke Dunhill
Drink Milk Coffee

3: The Dane drinks tea

12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
15: The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

1 2 3 4 5
Color Yellow Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Dane Briton
Pet Horses
Smoke Dunhill Blend Blue Master
Drink Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
(OK -
here is where we get all the drinks sorted out. The Dane could be 2 or 5. The person
who smokes Blue Master could also be 2 or 5. However the Dane can't be 5,
otherwise House 2 would be the Blue Master smoker and beer drinker, which
would only leave House 1 for the water drinking neighbour; this doesn't work, since
this would now make House 2 the Blend smoker. So the Dane is in House 2, etc)

13: The German smokes Prince

1 2 3 4 5
Color Yellow Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Dane Briton German
Pet Horses
Smoke Dunhill Blend Prince Blue Master
Drink Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer

2: The Swede keeps dogs as pets

 1 2 3 4 5
Color Yellow Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Dane Briton German Swede
Pet Horses Dogs
Smoke Dunhill Blend Prince Blue Master
Drink Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer

6: The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds

1 2 3 4 5
Color Yellow Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Dane Briton German Swede
Pet Horses Birds Dogs
Smoke Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Drink Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer

10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats

1 2 3 4 5
Color Yellow Blue Red Green White
Man Norwegian Dane Briton German Swede
Pet Cats Horses Birds Dogs
Smoke Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Drink Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer

Which only leaves one gap.

Who keeps Fish? The German.