Riddle: There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.
Who owns the fish?
And here are the clues:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
Answer: With such a large number of factors (house number, house shading, nationality, drink, stogie, and pet), explaining the riddle gets confounded quick.
YouTube client PoETheeds did an incredible video stroll through of how to explain the puzzle, yet here’s a fast summary.
The way to fathoming the puzzle is to make a network and begin filling in what you know without a doubt about each house:
Start with the pieces of information that you can promptly fill in on the matrix. You realize whoever lives in the inside house drinks milk (hint number eight) and you realize that the Norwegian lives in the principal house (intimation number nine).
When you have those two squares filled in, you can utilize rationale to fill in the rest. For instance, hint 14 says the Norwegian lives close to the blue house. Since we definitely know the Norwegian lives in the primary house, there’s just one house close to him. So house number two must be blue:
You can fill in a great part of the lattice along these lines. When you make sense of who possesses the pony however, things get dubious. Now it’s useful to name the remainder of the void boxes with all the rest of the conceivable outcomes, and tight it down from that point.
When you do that, you can see that water is the main opportunities for house one. At that point you can disentangle the remainder of the intimations utilizing a similar finding technique as in the past.
The answer: In the long run you’ll fill in all the squares and make sense of that (drum roll…) the German in house number four possesses the fish.