Zebra Puzzle |  |
This was supposedly created by Einstein, and some claim only 2% of the world can solve it.
There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keep a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.
Clues:
- The Brit lives in the red house.
- The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
- The Dane drinks tea.
- The green house is just to the left of the white house.
- The green house's owner drinks coffee.
- The person who smokes Pall Malls raises 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 Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
- The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
- The owner who smokes Bluemasters also drinks beer.
- The German smokes Prince.
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
- The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Who owns the fish?
Answer
The German
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Comments
Looks like the Norwegian Has fish as a pet.- Timothy (31 May 2008)
The German... He smokes Prince, drinks coffee, lives in green house.
- st (23 Oct 2008)
I say it is the German. He smokes Prince, lives in the green house, drinks coffee, his house is 4th and has the fish as a pet.
- jan (3 Dec 2008)
I agree with Jan...here are my final results:
1st
norwegian
color = yellow
drink = water
cig = dunhill
pet = cats
2nd
dane
color = blue
drink = tea
cig = blends
pet = horse
3rd
brit
color = red
drink = milk
cig = pall mall
pet = birds
4th
german
color = green
drink = coffee
cig = prince
pet = fish
5th
swede
color = white
drink = beer
cig = bluemasters
pet = dogs
- Louis (9 Dec 2008)
Exact same results as Louis. Took me about an hour scribbling through my notes to solve the puzzle.
- Richelle (23 May 2009)
22 Minutes, exact same results
- Tyler (18 Jun 2009)
gosh- am impressed- i got all the same answers without looking at the comments below. Took me 20 minutes though! Im very impressed with myself!
- helen (5 Oct 2009)
I did something like this (Artemis Fowl version :) (fangathering.com)). It said it was a version of Einsten's Zebra puzzle so I did the real one, and it was just as easy! BTW I'm 12 years old. I finished both in about half-an-hour
- Jgal (16 Jan 2010)
I'm 13 and I was taught how to work through this with several other similar puzzles- I find the best way is to draw up a grid, and put dots on whats confirmed, etc.
- kate (27 Jan 2010)
The German can live in 5th house from the right.
- Erfahrungssatz (3 Mar 2010)
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