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OpenStudy (anonymous):

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours. 2. In each house lives a person of different nationality 3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet. THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH? HINTS 1. The Brit lives in a red house. 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. 3. The Dane drinks tea. 4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house. 5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee. 6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. 7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunh

OpenStudy (amistre64):

logic puzzles eh..... how romantic ;)

OpenStudy (amistre64):

we could set up a grid.... or is that not "allowed" :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

wait there are more clues: The man living in the centre house drinks milk. 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house. 10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. 11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. 12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. 13. The German smokes Prince. 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. 15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

OpenStudy (amistre64):

Give it to the viking :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

who's the viking?

OpenStudy (amistre64):

Norway guy.... he put up posters all around the aquarium "missing fish". ;)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

haha

OpenStudy (amistre64):

i remember doing these with the aid of a grid of "options" to keep them sorted out...

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeah i tried to set up a table, but it gets very confusing

OpenStudy (dumbcow):

No one owns the fish...someones missing an iguana

OpenStudy (anonymous):

alright smartass. who owns the iguana?

OpenStudy (amistre64):

i already found the iguana, it was at the green house eating fish food lol

OpenStudy (anonymous):

have you seen this riddle before?

OpenStudy (amistre64):

i have it tacked to the fridge with a magnet and use it to train the orphans with ;)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

so is the solution tacked with it on the fridge or do you hide it away so the poor orphans have to beg you for the answer

OpenStudy (amistre64):

LOL ..... if they want some milk with their cookie crumbs, I make em answer it :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

let me guess the smart orphan asks for coffee instead of milk

OpenStudy (amistre64):

that smart ones leave before they get to the fridge :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

and what goes next door to the green house for his milk and cookies

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