Okay; so not exactly a word game - but can you solve Einstein's 'House Riddle'?
There are five houses lined up next to each other along a street. Each house is a different colour, and each homeowner is of a different nationality, drinks a different beverage, smokes a different brand of cigar, and owns a different pet.
If these variables can never repeat from house to house, which homeowner has a pet fish?
You should be able to figure out the answer based on these 15 clues:
Can you solve it?
There are five houses lined up next to each other along a street. Each house is a different colour, and each homeowner is of a different nationality, drinks a different beverage, smokes a different brand of cigar, and owns a different pet.
If these variables can never repeat from house to house, which homeowner has a pet fish?
You should be able to figure out the answer based on these 15 clues:
- The Englishman lives in the house with red walls.
- The Swede keeps dogs.
- The Dane drinks tea.
- The house with green walls is just to the left of the house with white walls.
- The owner of the house with green walls drinks coffee.
- The man who smokes Pall Mall keeps birds.
- The owner of the house with yellow walls smokes Dunhills.
- The man in the centre house drinks milk.
- The Norwegian lives in the first house.
- The Blend smoker has a neighbour who keeps cats.
- The man who smokes Blue Masters drinks beer.
- The man who keeps horses lives next to the Dunhill smoker.
- The German smokes Prince.
- The Norwegian lives next to the house with blue walls.
- The Blend smoker has a neighbour who drinks water.
Can you solve it?