The Riddle/Logic Puzzle Thread

archard

Joined: Jan 11 2007

Post up some of your best riddles and logic puzzles here. I'll start with this one for now but I'll post more later.

By the way, this is hard as shit. I ran into it about 3 years ago, and only with the help of a friend did I find the answer.

http://www.brain-fun.com/Brain-Teasers/ ... Riddle.php

So you want a hard brain teaser! Well, here it is.

It's purported that Einstein said 98% of the world's population could not figure out this logic problem. Try your hand at it. Send us an email message if you figure it out. (Use the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page.)
A logical question. Hard Brain Teasers

There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keeps a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same variety of pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.

Clues:

* The Brit lives in the red house.
* The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
* The Dane drinks tea.
* Looking from the front, the green house is just to the left of the white house.
* The green house's owner drinks coffee.
* The person who smokes Pall Malls raises birds.
* The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
* The man living in the center house drinks milk.
* The Norwegian lives in the leftmost house.
* The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
* The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
* The owner who smokes Bluemasters also 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.

Who owns the pet fish?