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Rowan
May 25th, 2004, 07:08 PM
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

bsg1fan1975
May 27th, 2004, 12:33 PM
too complicated for me to wrap my brain around it!

Rowan
May 27th, 2004, 12:36 PM
too complicated for me to wrap my brain around it!

it helps to draw a cross referenced grid to work it out :D ;)

Rowan
May 27th, 2004, 05:30 PM
Congratulations to BST who has successfully deciphered this puzzle:thumbsup: :salute:

I have such a smart brother!! I'm very proud:D;)

BST
May 27th, 2004, 05:32 PM
:blush: Aw gee, sis, why'd ya have to go and do that? :D :duck:

PS Thanks!

Rowan
May 27th, 2004, 05:54 PM
:blush: Aw gee, sis, why'd ya have to go and do that? :D :duck:

PS Thanks!Because I'm only modest when it comes to me otherwise I like to brag about the successes of others :D especially my big brothers!;) :D
besides BST your the first to ask me about it. Maybe now the reast of you will feel spured on to try, mind you maybe Einsteins test is too tough for ya'll;) :D you can thwack me later...:D ;)