Brain teaser

[Colleen Thomas]

There are five houses. Each one has a man of differnt nationality, who smokes a differnt cig and drinks a different drink and has a different pet form his neighbors. Can you figure out from the infromation provided who owns the fish from the information given below??

-The Britisher lives in the red house.
-The Swede holds a dog.
-The Dane drinks gladly tee.
-The green house stands left from the white house.
-The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
-The person, who smokes Pall Mall, holds a bird.
-The man, who lives in the middle house, drinks milk.
-The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
-The Norwegian lives in the first house.
-The Marlboro smoker lives beside that, which holds a cat.
-The man, who holds a horse, lives beside that, which smokes Dunhill.
-The Winfield smoker drinks gladly beer.
-The Norwegian lives beside the blue house.
-The German smokes Rothmanns.
-The Marlboro smoker has a neighbour, that drinks water.


there is no trick to it and there is no riddle. Supposedly only 2% of the population can figure this out. I doubt it because I managed it. Any takers?

 

[impressive]

Oooo ... logic problem. *draws the diagram*

Back in a few

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Oooo ... logic problem. *draws the diagram*

Back in a few

LOL, exactly my response

 

[Alex756]

I did it quick but if I am right, the German inthe green house with the rothhelms (I can't read my writing on that one) who drinks coffee has a fish.

I used to be good at those, hope I got it right

 

[tolyk]

Been too long since I've even seen a logic puzzle to remember how to set it up to make that work.. that's got quite a few variables.. order of house, colour of house, drink, smoke, and pet.. that'd be a rather large logic grid..

 

[impressive]

LOL, exactly my response

I used to have a subscription to the Dell logic puzzles "magazine." Love those things. Came in handy when I took the LSAT, too.

This one wasn't tough. Solved it without using all the clues.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I used to have a subscription to the Dell logic puzzles "magazine." Love those things. Came in handy when I took the LSAT, too.

This one wasn't tough. Solved it without using all the clues.

I had a ball with it. Haven't seen one of them in a long time. Glad you enjoyed it. junk email occasionally yeilds a nuget or two

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Been too long since I've even seen a logic puzzle to remember how to set it up to make that work.. that's got quite a few variables.. order of house, colour of house, drink, smoke, and pet.. that'd be a rather large logic grid..

Not really, it works out to a five by five grid. the number of the houses dosen't give you a grid variable, it just gives you an order for your colums.

 

[tolyk]

Not really, it works out to a five by five grid. the number of the houses dosen't give you a grid variable, it just gives you an order for your colums.

<--- hasn't slept in over 30 hours now... Heh

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I did it quick but if I am right, the German inthe green house with the rothhelms (I can't read my writing on that one) who drinks coffee has a fish.

Or he ate it.

Thanks, Colly. Interesting puzzle.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

The German owns the fish.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Or he ate it.

Thanks, Colly. Interesting puzzle.

hey Lauren

*HUGS*

Glad you enjoyed it

 

[Just-Legal]

DAMN!

I got the Brit!

Will someone tell me how to work it out? I suck at SuDoKu as well

 

[Colleen Thomas]

DAMN!

I got the Brit!

Will someone tell me how to work it out? I suck at SuDoKu as well

Sure

Let me Pm you with it.

 

[Guest]

Puzzle wuzn't so bad...coloring took a minute.
DON'T PEEK..SPOILER!

 

[impressive]

Puzzle wuzn't so bad...coloring took a minute

I you.

 

[Guest]

I you.

!




(can't magine why, but COOL!)

I had to google all the cigarette packs except marlboro.
It could be kinda funny to render this a bit larger with more detail.

nah.

 

[Guest]

colly, sweetie, i cant do this for i sit on my brain.
*sigh*

 

[Guest]

colly, sweetie, i cant do this for i sit on my brain.
*sigh*

would you mind parking your brain on my face for a bit?

 

[Guest]

would you mind parking your brain on my face for a bit?

only if you can get a closer close up of your nee-ple.
*grin*

 

[Guest]

only if you can get a closer close up of your nee-ple.
*grin*

right away.

 

[Alex756]

A few general tricks for these (and I seriously doubt anyone can't learn to solve them, it just there are tricks)

Make the grid, 5 X 5

The item asked for (pet) is going to be the last box left so put that row on the bottom. There is almost always an anchor point, in this case the first house is the norweigian, so some people would recomend starting the nation as the 1st row, I like putting it as the second, so I have 2 working rows touching that row.

Since this particular puzzel actually gives 2 references points, milk is a second, I put that as the 4th row so now EVERY row is next to a row I know something in.

Just go through plugging in the info you KNOW from the hints now that you have those 2 points.

Those are just some hints for tackling these, I used to compete in some porblem solving things and these were the tricks we used to work things out in the time limits.

Hope that helps

~Alex

 

[Guest]

I had the added "cheat" right in front of me.

ADLUS FREEHAND.

I made 5 colored boxes (White, red, yellow, green and blue)
And floating words for each attribute...and just started plugging them in..and pairing them up. and lining up pairs UNDER their possible locations.

I too started with Norwegian on left...then blue house next to him...
green and white had to be together in either the 3&4 or 4&5th positions and on it went...

The 5x5 grid works if just paper is available.
Tough to do JUST in your head.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

took me longer to type the explanation for JL than it did to work the puzzle

 

[Colleen Thomas]

colly, sweetie, i cant do this for i sit on my brain.
*sigh*

Pfffft.

It's not difficult. Once you set up a grind, it almost works itself. You basically have five house with five possible options in five different variables.

So this:

-The Norwegian lives in the first house.

Dosen't just give you the occupant of house one, it lowers to four the possivble occupants of the other houses.

And this:

-The man, who lives in the middle house, drinks milk.

Not only tells you the correct option in house 3, but also lowers the other four houses to just 4 options.


Once you establish those two, statements that didn't help at first apply:

-The Norwegian lives beside the blue house.

Since he lives in the first house the second must be blue, since he has no other neighbor.

-The green house stands left from the white house.

House five can't be green, as he has no neighbor to the right. House 1 can't be white, since he has no neighbor to the left. House 2 can't be either, because it's blue, so house three can't be white since his neighbor is blue. Either 5 is white and 4 green or 4 is white and 3 is green.

-The owner of the green house drinks coffee.

Now three can't be green, since he drinks milk.

So 2 is blue, 4 is green and five is white. In just that many applications you have reduced your variable in each unkown house to just 2.

Each statement applied, geometrically reduseces the possible options for you.

So:

-The Britisher lives in the red house.

Only 1 or 3 can be red. But we already know the Norweiganlives in one, so the brit has to live in three and his house is red.

Now you have all the house colors in order, Yellow (by process of elimination), blue, red, green, white.


This now makes sense:

-The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

So the norweigan smokes dunhills.

Each statement is limiting. As you reduce the options avialable, you eventually reach a point where a staement that told you nothing concrete

-The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

Now can be applied to further limit the options.