Apr 8th 2012, 8:17:22
This is a simple yet well thought out puzzle; if you do it right it does not involve any trial and error.
Solution:
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The Brit lives in the red house.
The green house is on the left and next to the white house.
The green homeowner drinks coffee.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The Norwegian lives in the first house, so the Blue house definitely comes second. Since the Green house has to be on the left of the White house, and the man living in the center house drinks milk, the Green house has to be the fourth house as the homeowner drinks coffee. Since the Brit lives in the Red house, it has to be the third one as the Norwegian is already in the first. Being the first house (Yellow), the Norwegian who smokes Dunhill has only one neighbor, and he is the one keeping the horse.
Information:
Yellow-Norwegian-Dunhill
Blue-Horse
Red-Brit-Milk
Green-Coffee
White
The rest is simple deduction. The colors in the brackets are the possible houses the hint can be associated with given what we know so far:
The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer. (Blue, White)
The Swede keeps dogs as pets. (Green, White)
The Dane drinks tea. (Blue, White)
The German smokes Prince. (Blue, Green, White)
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. (Red, Green, White)
The owner who smokes Bluemaster has to be the Swede, since we know the Dane and Brit do not drink beer, and the German and Norwegian are already smoking something else. Therefore, he is the owner of the White house. The Dane can only be from the Blue house now, leaving the German with the Green house. The person who smokes Pall Mall is the Brit, since the German smokes Prince and the Swede smokes Bluemaster.
Information:
Yellow-Norwegian-Dunhill
Blue-Dane-Horse-Tea
Red-Brit-Birds-Milk-Pall Mall
Green-German-Coffee-Prince
White-Swede-Dog-Beer-Bluemaster
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
The Dane smokes Blends. Therefore the cat lover and water sipper has to be the Norwegian, and we can conclude that the owner of the fish is the German.
