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There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These 5 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?

These are the hints given:

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 owner of the green house drinks coffee

the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds

the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill

the man living in the house right in the center 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 one 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 Blends has a neighbor who drinks water

Einstein said that 98% of the world could not figure it out. I don’t think the 98% thing is accurate in this day and age, because my dad got it on the first try. I’m kidding, my dad is intelligent, but I doubt my mom could get it; it takes a certain way of thinking. If you have Excel, use that to do it. That’s my first hint. If you get it, post a comment, but check your answer to make sure there are no contradictions before you look, because I posted the answer.

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