Test your skills of deduction with the September 2022 edition of Riddle Me This: Einstein’s Riddle
Somewhere in the world there is a small neighborhood full of very eccentric and intelligent people. There are five houses that are each a different color. There is a person of a different nationality that lives in each house. Each of these five people drinks their own special drink, smokes their own special brand of cigarettes, and has their own special pet. No one has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigarettes, or drinks the same drink. One of these five people owns a pet fish. With just the following information, figure out who owns the fish.
- The British man lives in the red house.
- The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.
- The Danish man drinks tea.
- The green house is to the left of the white house.
- The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
- The person that smokes Pall Mall cigarettes has a bird.
- The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill cigarettes.
- The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk.
- The Norwegian lives in the first house.
- The person that smokes Blend cigarettes lives next to the one that has a cat.
- The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill cigarettes.
- The one that smokes Bluemaster cigarettes drinks beer.
- The German smokes Prince cigarettes.
- The Norwegian lives next to a blue house.
- The person that smokes Blend cigarettes has a neighbor that drinks water.
Who owns the fish?
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The real trick was linking together by process of elimination to join the Bluemaster/Beer-drinker with the Swedish man and the dog. After that its very simple to eliminate and find the German owns the fish!
Nationality 1- Norwegian 9- Danish 5- British 10- German 8- Swedish
House Color 6- Yellow 2- Blue 5- Red 4- Green 4- White
Beverage 7- Water 9- Tea 3- Milk 4- Coffee 11- Beer
Cigarette 6- Dunhill 7- Blend 12-Pall Mall 10- Prince 11- Bluemaster
Pet 7- Cat 6- Horse 12-Bird FISH 8-Dog
1- Norwegian in first house
2- Norwegian lives next to Blue House
3- The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk
“4- The green house is to the left of the white house AND The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
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5- The British man lives in the red house.
6- The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill cigarettes AND The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill cigarettes.
7- The person that smokes Blend cigarettes lives next to the one that has a cat AND The person that smokes Blend cigarettes has a neighbor that drinks water.
8- The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.
9- The Danish man drinks tea.
10-The German smokes Prince cigarettes.
11- The one that smokes Bluemaster cigarettes drinks beer.
12- The person that smokes Pall Mall cigarettes has a bird.
Therefore, the German has the Fish