Paper Bag Pundit

The situation

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 type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.

4. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

Hints

• the Brit 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's owner drinks coffee

• the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds

• the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill

• the man living in the center house 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

Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said that 98% of the world could not solve it. 

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