Brainteaser time right here

[chowderhead]

<< < Facts:
1) There are 5 houses in 5 different colors.
2) In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3) These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and
keep a certain pet.
4) No two owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the
same drink.

Hints:
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 center drinks milk.
9) The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10) The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor 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.

Now, the question is?. WHO KEEPS FISH? >> >>





I believe that the German kept the fish. Therefore, it was the German who killed John and Jane .....
Nor Dane Brit German Swede
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Cats Horse birds FISH Dog
Dunhill Blends PallMall Prince BM

 

[Beau]

<< I believe the fish are kept by the norwegian fellow who lives in the first house (which is yellow btw) and smoke dunhills while drinking either tea or beer >>

The Dane drinks tea, and the norwegian can't drink beer, cuz he smokes dunhills.

 

[Beau]

Yellow House - Blue House - Red House - Green House - White House
Norewegian - Dane - Brit - German - Swede
Dunhill - Blend - Pall Mar - Prince - Blue Master
Cats - Horses - Birds - Fish - Dogs
Water - Tea - Milk - Coffee - Beer


It was the German in the Green house, smoking prince, drinking coffee that had the fish.

Beau <--- Is in the 2%

 

[PullMyFinger]

I honestly can't remember the correct answer to the Einstein quiz, it went around my office a couple of years ago. I do, however, remember that we got 2 different answers which met all of the criteria. We summarized that there are two different correct answers based on how you perceive the location of the houses. For example "The green house is on the left of the white house" and "The Norwegian lives in the first house", is this based on looking at the houses from the street or is it based on being in the house and looking out at the street?

If my workload slows down in the next day or so, I'll try to dig out the old copies of this to see how we answered.