6.26.2007

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:


  1. Who drinks water?
  2. Who owns the zebra?


Clues:

  1. There are five houses.
  2. The Englishman lives in the red house.
  3. The Spaniard owns the dog.
  4. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
  5. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
  6. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
  7. The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
  8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
  9. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
  10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  11. The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
  12. Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
  13. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
  14. The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
  15. 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!

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