[OT] A Riddle

[Robert Sneidar]

Oic it's a process of elimination puzzle. At first I missed the last clue "and keeps a different pet". Crucial for solving the puzzle. By the way, the "walleye pike" is a bit of a diversion. The real question is, "Who owns the fish?" 

It should have been phrased so that each clue was on it's own line. I am a victim of speed reading, not of lack of intelligence. ;-)

This is rather like Sudoku, working a problem backwards by eliminating the impossibles, leaving only the answers. 

Bob


On Dec 26, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Folks,
> I was presented with this logic puzzle, supposedly conceived by Albert
> Einstein, over Christmas and am passing it on for your enjoyment and/or
> frustration.  I'm assured there are no tricks and that the puzzle can be
> solved by pure logic. Might be an interesting exercise to solve it with
> Livecode;
> 
> There are 5 houses in a row
> Each house is a different color.
> In each house lives a person of different nationality
> Each house owner drinks a different drink, smokes a different brand of
> cigarette, and keeps a different pet
> 
> The question is who owns the Walleye Pike?
> 
> The clues are as follows.
> 
>   1. The Brit lives in the red house
>   2. The Swede owns a dog
>   3. The Dane drinks tea
>   4. The green house is on the left of the white house
>   5. The green house owner drinks coffee
>   6. The owner who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds
>   7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills
>   8. The owner of the house in the center drinks milk.
>   9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the person who keeps cats
>   10. The Norwegian lives in the first house
>   11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one that smokes Dunhills
>   12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
>   13. The German smokes Princes
>   14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
>   15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
> 
> 
> Pete
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