Gigi's Logic Puzzles

This Week's Exciting Puzzle: Einstein's Riddle

I take absolutely no credit for this puzzle, since I'm obviously not the one who created it. Most people believe that Einstein created this puzzle - although there is some argument otherwise, something to do with the particular brand of cigars in the clues. But there are several versions out there, some clearly with even more modern brands of smokes (when I first did this puzzle, one of the brands was Chesterfields, and another was Marlboro).
So who knows? Maybe Einstein really did come up with this puzzle, and maybe it's just been updated along the way.

In any case, enjoy this one...


In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours. In each house lives a person of different nationality. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
WHO OWNS THE FISH?


  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 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 Dunhill.
  8. 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.


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