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)
I got the same results as as Jan... :)
Yayyy!
Omg my tutor gave me this question in like year 3...
I didn't even bother trying to solve it...
I'm so glad I managed to solve it now. :)
- Kevin (11 Mar 2010)
12 yrs old, 20 min
- dylan t (13 Mar 2010)
No, he can't. Early in the solution process, it's clear that the fifth house is the only one with both the drink and cigarette brand unknown. This means that it fits the "Beer and Bluemasters" clue, which the German clearly does not.
- Brian (15 Mar 2010)
It depends on how you interpret (The green house is just to the left of the white house) if you think of that as your left while facing the house then the German is 4th but if you think of it as the actual left side of the house then the German is 5th but that part really is not important because either way you still get the same result for the fish which is what you are trying to figure out.
- Christifer (17 Mar 2010)
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