Who drinks water? Who owns the zebra?
Although this is not new, today I came across this mindbender. It's not that difficult to solve if you create a spreadsheet grid that enables quick changes. When I solved, I color coded links (like the Japanese / Parliament cells were blue). Start with what is known (eg: The Norwegian lives in the first house) and deduce possibilities. See the Wiki on the bottom of this post for the full article with the solution.
Questions:
- Who drinks water?
- Who owns the zebra?
Clues:
- There are five houses.
- The Englishman lives in the red house.
- The Spaniard owns the dog.
- Coffee is drunk in the green house.
- The Ukrainian drinks tea.
- The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
- The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
- Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
- Milk is drunk in the middle house.
- The Norwegian lives in the first house.
- The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
- Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
- The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
- The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
In the interest of clarity, it must be added that each of the five houses is painted a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke different brands of American cigarettes. One other thing: In statement 6, right means your right.
Zebra Puzzle
Comment: Being that these multi-ethnic neighbors all smoked, and that this was first printed in 1962, I'm pretty sure they all died of cancer!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Any anonymous comments with links will be rejected. Please do not comment off-topic