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1. In a street there are 5 houses, painted 5 different colors.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality.
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS:
1. The Brit lives in a red house
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5.The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue horse.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

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Write all the logics down to find the answer but here it is with pictures so you can see it for yourself ->
1st row house colour
2nd row nationality
3rd row drinks
4th row smokes
5th row pets

9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
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Nor ? ? ? ?
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1. The Brit lives in a red house.
-> So Norwegian can't be red
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
-> So green and white house must be one of the 3 on the left side
-> since Brit lives in red house, Norwegian must live in yellow house
Yellow Blue ? ? ?
Nor ? ? ? ?
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