Can you solve this riddle

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Here’s the setup: There are five houses, each painted a different color. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same cigar, or drink the same beverage.

The question is, who owns the fish?

Here are the clues:

  • 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 house’s owner drinks coffee
  • The person who smokes Pall Mall rears 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 horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
  • The owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
  • The German smokes Prince
  • The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
  • The man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water

Because it's googleable. Bonus points for anyone who can solve variations where the green and white house aren't side by side.
 

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Here’s the setup: There are five houses, each painted a different color. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same cigar, or drink the same beverage.

The question is, who owns the fish?

Here are the clues:

  • 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 house’s owner drinks coffee
  • The person who smokes Pall Mall rears 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 horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
  • The owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
  • The German smokes Prince
  • The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
  • The man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water

Because it's googleable. Bonus points for anyone who can solve variations where the green and white house aren't side by side.
The answer is the German. I don’t want any bonus.

I guess I’m a sucker for problem solving
 

Blackrogue

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The answer is the German. I don’t want any bonus.

I guess I’m a sucker for problem solving

Spoiler the entire list of who lives where, drinks what, smokes what and has what pet

And the second alternative bonus I've offered to the question is so I know someone didn't google the other scenarios
 

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its the german, this shyt aint that easy but its not calculus neither.
i just made a table and used a pencil so i could keep erasing my wrong answers
 

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The hardest part was figuring out the most efficient strategy/approach

I also told myself I wouldn’t guess anything either. I could only choose something based on the logic provided. It was kind of like playing Sudoku
 

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The hardest part was figuring out the most efficient strategy/approach

I also told myself I wouldn’t guess anything either. I could only choose something based on the logic provided. It was kind of like playing Sudoku

Do you player killer soduku?

Here's a site for it


You can search by difficulty

Also check out cracking the cryptic channel on YouTube. Good puzzles there.
 

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