logic test - who owns the fish?

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Who Owns The Fish?
There are five houses in a row and in five different colours.

In each house lives a person from a different country.

Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain pet.

No two people drink the same drink, play the same sport, or keep the same pet.

The Brit lives in a red house
The Swede keeps dogs
The Dane drinks tea
The green house is on the left of the white house
The green house owner drinks coffee
The person who plays polo rears birds
The owner of the yellow house plays hockey
The man living in the house right in the centre drinks milk
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who plays baseball lives next to the man who keeps cats
The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who plays hockey
The man who plays billiards drinks beer
The German plays soccer
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
The man who plays baseball has a neighbour who drinks water.


Who Owns The Fish?

[Fat Tone]

The British do. Get your trawlers out of our waters. Harrr!

[Dr Mordrid]

A version of Einsteins Riddle, rewritten to mollify non-smokers by subbing a sport for the tobacco preference in the original.

Basically you set up an array listing the known properties of all 5 houses; color, nationality, drink, sport & pet. All the houses save for one have full lists, so the blank pet item is where the fish goes.

Answer (ghosted): the German

[Brian Ellis]

Actually, the premisses are false. As the Brits are reputed to be the greatest dog lovers and tea drinkers, this cannot belong to the Swede's/Dane's attributes. Furthermore, the Brits are the only ones who play polo, which requires a horse, not birds. The German's are the beer drinkers par excellence, but billiards is hardly played in their country.

Logic tells me the questions are all f***ed up.

[Gurm]

This is in a family of puzzles commonly referred to as "logic puzzles". Generally the grid is the most helpful way to sort it out. The extremely challenging versions of the puzzles only give you a couple of grid entries directly and make you infer the rest.

[ND66]

Who Owns The Fish?

The one who owns the fish tank!

[ZokesPro]

Who Owns The Fish?

Did you get this off of Fark.com by any chance?

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Did you get this off of Fark.com by any chance?

childrens' math site.

...never been to fark :blush:

[lowlifecat]

So no one is up to this puzzle?

If stupid old me could figure it out

Actually I'm only 95% certain of my answer. Hoping one of you will concur.