Thursday, September 21, 2006

puzzle

ok a even harder puzzle!

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.

7 comments:

amy said...

i wanna answer this but i don't have time till tomorrow
please don't post up the answer anyone ok?

Mindy said...

Good luck doing that one in your head Adam! I have trouble doing those with a pen!

amy said...

thank you adam, that is very much appreciated :)

amy said...

thanks for waiting adam
i finally found time
did you get that it was the german who lives in a green house and drinks coffee and smokes prince has a fish?

amy said...

that we do

Clairey Fairy said...

the answer is:it is the coffee-drinking, Prince-smoking German in the green house that raises fish.

so u guys both rule!

Mindy said...

That is awesome that you guys solved it! I didn't. I'm too lazy. And I have a colouring competition to focus on.

Also we shifted offices today. It's weird. Now I have lots of friends in my office with me.