Einstein's Riddle: Who owns the fish?
The following riddle was supposedly posed by Albert Einstein (I
haven't been able to verify that), he reportedly claimed that less
than 2 percent of the people in the world could solve it.
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a
person with a different nationality. The 5 owners each drink a certain type
of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain type
of pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or
drink the same beverage.
The following statements are all true:
- The Brit lives in the red house.
- The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
- The Dane drinks tea.
- The green house is immediately to the left of the white house.
- The green house's owner drinks coffee.
- The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
- The owner of yellow house smokes Dunhills.
- The man living in the center house 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 Dunhills.
- The owner who smokes Bluemasters 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.
The question is: "Who owns the fish?"
Believe it or not, there is sufficient information in the list
of statements to settle this question.
A hint.