See if you can figure out who owns the Fish? riddle?

Question

1. There are 5 houses in five different colors.

2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

3. These five owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain band of cigar and keep a certain pet.

4. no owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar nor drink the same drink.

THE QUESTION IS - WHO OWNS THE FISH?

The Britt 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 owner drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Paul Mall rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The man living in the house right in centre 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.

Answer 1

.....you've lost me pet!

Answer 2

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah this is so hard... My guess is that it is the German who owns the fish.  ~*~

Answer 3

The German guy owns the fish.

The Norwegian lives in the first house,yellow house,  smokes Dunhill, drinks water and has cat for pet.

The Dane lives in second blue house. pet - horses, smoke - Blend, Drink - Tea,

3rd house - Red, The Brit lives there, drinks milk smokes Paul Mall and raises Birds.

4th house German lives there, Green house, drinks coffee, smokes Prince and pet - FISH,

5th house - White house. Swede lives there, drinks beer, amokes Blue masters and has Dog as a pet.

EDIT - why Thumbs Down, I think my answer is right.

Answer 4

It's the German, and I'll even tell you how I did it so you know I didn't copy/paste it from Google.

The trick is to look at all the variables involved: write out all the nationalities, all the house colors, etc.

Cut each item out into a square of paper.

Use these little squares for your work. The idea is to arrange them in groups based on the rules. Eg where it says the Brit lives in the red house, you take the "Brit" square and the "Red" square and put them together, separate from the pile. Do this for each of the rules you encounter. The things that are relative (x is next to y) you can ignore for now.

Then it comes down to the Norwegian. He's the first point where you can work out a location for these people. Eventually you will have almost all the information for the Norwegian, and you can work out everything else relative to that, taking into account the relative rules like Horses next to Dunhill. You then use your clumps of elements to fill in the gaps - eg if one of the houses is missing a person and a pet, you'll conveniently find that this will only be filled in by the Swede who owns dogs.

Once you realise that, yes, there are enough rules to be able to complete it without making a guess at any point, it's really quite easy as long as you keep your grouped elements together.