A Riddle

Discussion in 'BOARDANIA' started by Perdita, Oct 7, 2005.

  1. Perdita New Member

    This one has bee going around work at the moment, and although I actually haven't had a chance to do it myself I thought I'd post it here to give you all a chance at it!

    N.B Please let me know how you get on however don't post the end results!


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


    Facts:

    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 houses owner drinks coffee
    The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
    The owner of the yellow house smokes dunhill
    The man living in the centre house drinks milk
    The Norwegian lives in the first house
    The man who smokes Blends lives next door to the one who keeps cats
    The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
    The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer
    The German smokes prince
    The norwegian lives next door to the blue house
    The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water
  2. Electric_Man Templar

    Err... what's the actual question?
  3. Ba Lord of the Pies

    Find out who lives in which house, what the color of each house is, what kind of pet they own, what they smoke, and what they drink.

    Incidentally, Perdita neglected to mention what the fifth kind of pet was. It's not necessary to solve the riddle, but it would be nice.
  4. Electric_Man Templar

    It sounds like more of a logic puzzle than a riddle to me.
  5. Whitewolf New Member

    I've solved it. (I think)

    My solution is here.
    [SPOILER]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/unikhorne/solution.gif[/SPOILER]
    Not a hyper-link, in order to avoid accidental clickage.
  6. Perdita New Member

    Pardon me- the question should be:

    Who owns the fish? (hence the name of the fifth animal)


    Also, apologise for the inconcise nature of the thread name-'Riddle' instead of what E-man said.
  7. Electric_Man Templar

    Ah, just got the answer!

    I treated it as a logic puzzle, and that's how I suggest it should be solved. I created a large grid like you get for logic puzzles in Puzzle Books.

    Anyway, your answer is below:

  8. lipi New Member

    Seems I got it right too. Yay me :D

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