Originally posted by AcolyteSeems like those logic problems I would play as a kid. Just set up a chart and start checking of squares, thus eliminating impossible combinations. If the puzzle has a unique solution, it will show up.
It's a fairly conventional puzzle, which doesn't require any special insight, just the ability to apply a process of elimination. I imagine many people can solve it without help; the only question is how quickly they can do so.
Originally posted by howzzatThere are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.
But sukhit, what IS the riddle? State it in the thread.
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 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.