Sunday, October 28, 2007

Einstein's riddle

(As found on ABN AMRO's graduates website)

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, eat a certain food for breakfast, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, eat the same breakfast cereal, or drink the same beverage. The Briton lives in the red house. The Chinese man keeps dogs as pets. The American drinks tea. The green house is on the left of the white house. The green homeowner drinks coffee. The person who eats croissants rears birds. The owner of the yellow house eats bread rolls. The man living in the centre house drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who eats muesli lives next to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who eats bread rolls. The owner who eats porridge drinks beer. The German eats toast. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man who eats muesli has a neighbour who drinks water.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

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This is the only riddle I could solve out of 4 attempted ones!