Who thinks they an solve this logic problem?

Question

Five houses of different colors are in a row. Each is owned by a man with a different nationality, different hobby, different pet, and different favoite drink. The enlgishman lives in the red house, the spainard owns dogs, doffee is dunk in the green house, the ukrainina drinks tea, the green house is directly to the right of the white one, the stamp collector owns snails, the antques collector lives in the yellow house, the man in the middle house drinks mmilk, the norweigian lives in the first house in the row, the man who sings lives next door to the man with the fox, the man who gardens drinks orange juice, the antiques collector lives next door to the man with the horse, the japanese man's hobby is cooking, and the norwegian lives next door to the blue house

1.. who's favoite drink is water

2who owns a zebra as his pet

you have to figure out the data to find the answers

Answer 1

I was trying to explain how to do these, but it's really hard to show without examples, so I found a website with these instead. http://www.puzzlersparadise.com/article1...

I used to love these as a kid and would do them on graph paper or by drawing a grid. You could do it on a spreadsheet too.

Answer 2

The easiest way to solve this sort of thing is to draw 5 boxes in a row and write above each one what you know about it. You know immediately that the Norwegian lives in house 1. House 2 is blue. House 3 drinks milk and so on. Then deduce.....

The Norwegian's house is neither green nor white. And neither is it blue or red. Therefore it is yellow and the Norwegian collects antiques. House 3 cannot be green, but may be red or white.......

If I had all night I would work them all out, but you get the idea....

Answer 3

I'd start with the Norwegian in the first house:

"The Norwegian lives in the first house in the row"

1. Norwegian

"The Norwegian lives next to the blue house"

2. blue

"The man in the middle house drinks milk"

3. milk

"Coffee is drunk in the green house"

3. milk, not green

"The green house is directly to the right of the white one".  That eliminates 1,2 or 3 from being green.  Either 4 or 5 is green and 3 or 4 is white.

1. Norwegian, not green

2. blue

3. milk, not green

white (3 or 4)

green (4 or 5)

That means 4 is either white or green.

1. Norwegian, not green

2. blue

3. milk, not green

4. white or green

"The Englishman lives in the red house".  The only choices are that he live in house 3 or 5.

Englisman = house 3 or 5

red = house 3 or 5

Now we know that we either have:

3 = red

4 = white

5 = green

or

3 = white

4 = green

5 = red

That means that 1 and 2 must be yellow and blue.  We already know the blue house, but now we know that #1 must be yellow.

1. Norwegian, yellow

2. blue

3. milk, red or white

4. white or green

5. green or red

"The antiques collector lives in the yellow house:

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques

2. blue

3. milk, red or white

4. white or green

5. green or red

"The antiques collectors lives next door to the man with the horse"

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques

2. blue, horse

3. milk, red or white

4. white or green

5. green or red

The Norwegian can't drink coffee (it's in the green house) or tea (Ukrainian) or orange juice (gardening hobby) or milk (house #3).  So that leaves water.

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques, water

2. blue, horse

3. milk, red or white

4. white or green

5. green or red

The Norwegian can't own the horse (#2), or the snails (stamp collector) or dogs (Spaniard).  So he either has a fox or zebra.

If he has a fox, then the singer is next door in #2.  Now the Englishman is in #3 or #5.  The Spaniard is in #3, #4 or #5 and the Japanese man is in #3, #4 or #5.  The only remaining nationality is the Ukranian in #2.

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques, water, fox

2. Ukrainian, blue, singer, tea, horse

3. milk, red or white

4. white or green

5. green or red

"The stamp collector owns snails"

That can't be the Japanese man (cooking) or the Spaniard (dogs), so it must be the Englishman who is the stamp collector with snails.

"The man who gardens drinks orange juice"

That can't be the Japanese (cooking) or the Englishman (stamp collector).  So that leaves the Spaniard who drinks orange juice and gardens.

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques, water, fox

2. Ukrainian, blue, singer, tea, horse

3. milk, red or white

4. white or green

5. green or red

Englishman, red, stamp collector, snails

Spaniard, gardening, orange juice

Japanese, cooking

The Englishman doesn't drink water or tea (#1, #2) or coffee (green house) or orange juice (Spaniard) so that leaves milk in house #3.

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques, water, fox

2. Ukrainian, blue, singer, tea, horse

3. Englishman, red, stamp collector, milk, snails

4. white

5. green, coffee

Spaniard, gardening, orange juice

Japanese, cooking

The Spaniard drinks orange juice so he must be in #4.  And the Japanese in #5.

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques, water, fox

2. Ukrainian, blue, singer, tea, horse

3. Englishman, red, stamp collector, milk, snails

4. Spaniard, white, gardening, orange juice

5. Japanese, green, cooking, coffee

Fill in the rest of the details.

"The Spaniard owns dogs".  That leaves one place for the zebra.

1. Norwegian, yellow, antiques, water, fox

2. Ukrainian, blue, singer, tea, horse

3. Englishman, red, stamp collector, milk, snails

4. Spaniard, white, gardening, orange juice, dogs

5. Japanese, green, cooking, coffee, zebra

Answer:

1) The Norwegian drinks water

2) The Japanese has the zebra

Answer 4

looks like norweehian is yellow, antique





.........1.........2........3............

........norw............................. .......................................

........yellow......blue......red    white     green

..... ..antiue.................OR......white   green  red .................

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