Find The Fish

Lateral thinking puzzle time!Please use spoilers ([[spoiler:text]) when you give your answer.

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There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

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• The Brit lives in the red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the left of the white house.
• The green homeowner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the center house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
• The German smokes prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

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The question is: Who owns the fish?

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hashtagsarestupid

Well, it took between ten and twenty minutes to organize everything, but I think I have an answer. I must say, this was a wonderful test of mental aptitude. Even if it turns out that my guess is faulty, this was a nice experience, and I applaude you for it.

The German has the fish.

Just a nitpick: that's a straight-up logic puzzle, not a lateral thinking puzzle.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

There is no fish. The fifth man has a pet gerbil.

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

@Endark Culi: You are correct.

I'm impressed. it took me ;;two hours'' first time I heard it to work out (and even then I ended up cheating and had to use spreadsheet).

edited 29th May '11 7:58:13 PM by joeyjojo

hashtagsarestupid

Aren't you supposed to solve this kind of puzzles with a spreadsheet?

I will admit, a sheet of paper was used when I was working out the answer, mainly because trying to remember everything would only give me headaches. As for why I don't think it took long to make my guess, once I deduced that the center house could only have been green or red, and that the green house's owner already had a favourite drink, the rest just slowly fell into place.

edited 29th May '11 7:28:39 PM by EndarkCuli

As in the windows program. Yes and pen and paper is fine but using a computer seem like cheating, even if it's only to save doubling back on yourself.

Yeah your best bet I find is to establish the houses order then color then individual.The rest falls into place.

edited 29th May '11 7:57:43 PM by joeyjojo

hashtagsarestupid

But I'm right here!