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Puzzle

  • 18-08-1999 7:28pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭


    Heres one to keep the brains ticking over.
    There is only one solution to this.

    There are 5 houses in different colours
    In each house lives a person with a different nationality
    These five owners drink a certain drink,smoke a certain brand of cigar
    and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet,smoke the same brand
    of cigar or drink the same drink.

    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 person who smokes pall mall rears birds
    -the owner of the yellow house smokes dunhill
    -the man lliving in the house right in the 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 neighbour who drinks water
    -the green house owner drinks coffee


    I got it BTW wink.gif

    P.S.

    Took me ages smile.gif


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    dont u just love mass emails? smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭Overlord


    Now see you COULD write a program in prolog to recursively sort the data and deduce the answer in a logical manner or even better let Coyote do it. He said he got it in ten minutes. Hes some kind of genius apparently.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,035 Mod ✭✭✭✭mewso


    Or you could just say - who gives a ****.

    m


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭jArgHA


    B4 I spend another half hour trying to figure this out just tell me now if it is a trick puzzle. The fish is not mentioned int the text above at all at all so maybe there is no fish ??? Maybe the missing pet is a rattlesnake or somefing arrghh my mind...
    Just tell me if the fish is actually owned by one of the aforementioned nationalites.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    well, if it can't be worked out then I've fvcked up somewhere 'cos I got an answer!Yaaaaaaay!

    just so I won't ruin it for everyone else

    Could someone post the answer in say... the Starcraft forum (the forum, not the topic here..)? you'll see it there. Just want to see if I got it right or not.

    j.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Nexus


    hmmm are u just f***ing with our minds
    TELL ME THE ANSWER
    PLEASE!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    This is a genuine puzzle and if u look closely u'll notice that everything is mentioned in the hints bar the fish(meaning that only 4 pets are given) so after plenty of head reckin u'll provail, i did.


    Jimmy...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! smile.gif


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭ste


    im too lazy to even READ the text !

    it hurts me EYES !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭Monty - the one and only


    How the hell did you get an answer from that??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    I get paid for this sort of **** , and you want me to do it for free? smile.gif



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