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deathcricket · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: Difficult logic puzzle

Alright this one took me over an hour to solve. Very tricky IMO. Another guy at work was able to solve it in 45 mins without cheating. Try your luck.
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There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
In each house lives a person with a different nationality
These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here's the question: Who owns the fish?

1. The Brit 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
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 middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door 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

With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.

denaliguide · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 677 Location: new zealand/alaska

took me about an hour but i think i got it. don't want to post it here yet.

deathcricket · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject:

Nice! pretty tricky eh?
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Sombeech · Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 12602 Location: The Rubbish Bin

I wish I had the time to figure this one out... but I'm going to throw something out there. His check bounced at WalMart when he bought the fish, so WalMart owns it.

deathcricket · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:11 am Post subject:

Obviously you didn't get the fact that it's a logic puzzle. Everyone knows Jews don't bounce checks or even shop at Walmart. Duh...

And for anyone else reading this, I'm just kidding!

Redpb · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 369 Location: Lehi

Einsteins impossible puzzle! I've enjoyed doing this one many times. I never can remember the sequence so I have to do it every time.

Mtnbeer · Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 13 Location: SLC

Wooohoooo!!! :2thumbs: 23 minutes to solve. I haven't seen it before and didn't cheat either, although once I figured it out, I googled the puzzle answer and even got everything right in my charts.

deathcricket · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:10 pm Post subject:

Oh wow impressive man! I would say you're a genius. Either that or it wasnt as hard as I was making it out to be. It stumped me good!

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Jaxx · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 1830

I don't consider myself very smart but it took me less than 15 minutes to do. I didn't keep exact time because I didn't think I would be able to figure it out. luck of the dummy I guess.

Alex · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 2552 Location: SLC, UT

Na it's a good one man! I used Excel to figure it out, helped moving the cells around instead of a piece of paper.

deathcricket · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

Wow! Amazing guys....

Ya I used excell to. I couldn't figure out where the green house and white house went for the longest time. I knew it was one of 2 options. So I just worked it out for both options and then it all fit together.

Also I was concentrating on which person lived in which house since the norwegan was first. I should have just concentrated on filling in as many blanks as possible wherever. But yeah it's easy to look back with all that hindsight.
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