How smart are ya'?

[Nmil-ek]

Smart enough to not waste my time solving a puzzle hah now whos the Dumbass!

 

[martin's a madman]

Spoiler

Worked it out as The German

Brit - Red House - Birds - Milk - Pall Malls

Dane - Blue House - Horse - Tea - Blends

German - Green House - FISH - Coffee - Prince

Swede - White House - Dogs - Beer - Blue Masters

Norwegian - Yellow House - Cats - Water - Dunhill

House Order: Yellow, Blue, Red, Green, White

Am I righ? I don't mind if I'm wrong, I'd just like to know

You are.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

Spoiler

The German.

That's what i think. though my logic probably isn't average.

 

[HellRaid]

Please spoiler any serious answers.

Who owns the pet fish?

Spoiler

The Norwegian lives in the leftmost house, next to blue house. The owner of the center house drinks milk, and cannot therefore be green house whose owner has coffee for a drink. The gren house is position 4 as it is to the left of the white one and there is no other place for a pair of houses to fit the given clues. Thus, the center house is red and the Brit lives there. The Norwegians house must thus be yellow. The Dane drinks tea and so doesn't live in the coffee-drinking green house. The Swede raises dogs so he is not the one who owns horses. The identity of the Blue house is hence still unknown.

The man in the centermost house is the Brit and drinks milk. The green owner drinks coffee. The Dane drinks tea and so does not live there. The one who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer. Because the German smokes Prince, we know now that the German does not drink beer. We established already that the Brit drinks milk, so he cannot smoke Bluemasters. Since the Norwegian smokes Dunhills, he can't do the Bluemasters/Beer combo either. And the Dane drinks tea, resulting in the Swede having the beer.

The owner of the yellow house (Norwegian) smokes Dunhill. The German smokes Prince. The on who smokes Blends, has a neighbor who drinks water, and the green one drinks coffee. Hence, the person in the white house does not smoke Blends. The Dane can't smoke Bluemasters, since he drinks tea and not beer, as deducted before. The Brit drinks milk, so Bluemasters are out for him. The Norwegian doesn't smoke the Bluemasters either, since he smokes Dunhills. And the German smokes Prince, not Bluemasters. The only option is that the Swede smokes Bluemasters. Therefore, the Swede drinks beer, concurring the result of the drinks-deduction.

The man who keeps a horse, lives next door to the Dunhill smoker, who is the Norwegain, so the owner of the blue house has a horse. The Norwegian smokes Dunhills, so he does not have birds. The Swede keeps dogs, so he can't own horses and live in the blue house. Whomever smokes the Bluemasters, doesnt own birds.

When we realize that the Swede smokes Bluemasters, drinks ber and keeps dogs, we know everything except the colr of his house. He doesn't live in the red one because he drinks beer instead of milk. Nor does he live in the green house, as he does not drink coffee. He is not in the yellow house either, due to the Dunhills, and since he doesn't own a horse he isn't the owner of the blue one. So, he lives in the white house.

The blue house and the green house are still unknowns the Dane must be in the blue one drinking tea, because he doesn't drink coffee: therefore, he can not be in the green one. We already know that the Brit is the owner of the red house and the Norewgian is in the yelow house. So we can put the German into the green.

Based on this, we have the German drinking coffee and smoking Princes in the green house. The Swede is in the white, smoking Bluemasters and drinking beer with dogs keeping thirsty frat-students away. The Norwegian is in the yellow house, getting lung cancer from Dunhills. The Dane is in the blue house drinking tea and grooming a horse. Since he has a horse, he can't have birds and therefore doesn't smoke Pall Malls, but Blends. The Brit is in the red house drinking milk.

Since the Dane, inside the blue house, smokse Blends, his neighbor must drink water. The house next door belongs to the Brit who already drinks milk. So the Norwegian on the other side must be the one who drinks water. We know what everyone smokes (but the Brit) who by default smokes Pall Malls, and hence also owns birds.

Since he owns the birds, the neighbor of the Blends smoker (who has cats) is the Norwegian, leaving only one outcome:

The German owns the fish.

Did I get it right? It is possible I have a mistake there somewhere as I did this in a bit of a hurry, but I did play this out on paper and it seems to fit.

Yup, that's right. I got stuck literally at the last paragraph because of how I'd laid it out on the paper, thinking I must've done something wrong at the start. I read through your guide most of the way until I realised that I actually did it right, and then finished it myself. Cheers for that

 

[Danpascooch]

Why do we care who owns the fish?

Because it is a logic puzzle. If you can figure it out then apparently you are smarter than 98% of the world. Don't you want to say you are smarter than 98% of the world?

I have an I.Q of 162. I already AM smarter than 98% of the world. Also, Your Momma owns the pet fish.

We only have your word for that, this test is distinct proof.

Distinct proof my ass

 

[Danpascooch]

Actually, scratch what I said before, this is definitely a conclusive proof of someone's intelligence.

If you don't waste your time on this, you are intelligent.

 

[spuddyt]

Well god damn. I just spent about an hour working this thing out, only to then get stuck, give up and find out I had actually fucked up really early on.... but that my logic thereafter was more or less faultless.

 

[Urgh76]

the one that keeps flashing rainbow colors............ weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Julianking93]

Wasn't this posted about a month ago?

I got it right then.

 

[zacaron]

Spoiler: my guess

german

 

[Biosophilogical]

No-one has the fish, because I gave them all cats, hungry cats.

OT:

Spoiler: I did this about a month ago

The answer is the german

 

[Veret]

Sorry if I'm missing anything here; I only read the OP to avoid seeing any hints. Here's my answer:

Spoiler: Suck it, Einstein!

The Norwegian keeps fish. He also lives in a yellow house, smokes Dunhills, and drinks water. The order of the houses from left to right are yellow, blue, red, green, and white. I could figure out the rest, but I stopped working on it once I got the fish.

Edit: After reading through some other answers, it looks like I made a mistake about 80% of the way through. Excuse me while I go drown my sorrows with a glass of water, a pack of Dunhills, and the other 98% of the world.

 

[LockeDown]

I think my logic is sound. Also, it should be noted that in colloquial English, "neighbor" can be used to describe anyone living within remote vicinity of your home. They don't have to live right next to you. Some of the people a few doors down from me are considered my "neighbors". All these people are each other's neighbors.

Spoiler

It's the German.

Edit: Went back and checked. Made a logical mis-step about 85% of the way through. I are ashamed. Fixed the answer.

 

[Mozared]

I could do this if I wasn't stoned right now.

DAMN YOU DEVIL WEED!!

I work in the opposite manner of you - I could do this if I were stoned right now. In my current state, I can't focus my attention enough to bother and try.

 

[Puzzles]

Yay, I got it but I wasn't certain I was right when I finished working it out (until I checked the answer).

Took about 5 minutes and one scribble covered sheet of paper, hehe.

EDIT: I want more! Someone give me another logic puzzle. I LIKE PUZZLES.

 

[Cbargs]

It's the Brit right?

 

[Dramatic Flare]

Spoiler

German.

 

[Ridonculous_Ninja]

Finished this in 10 minutes the first time I saw it, apparently that makes me as smart as JFK.

Those statistics accompanying this riddle are probably made up though so it doesn't really matter.

 

[Zetsubou]

I just got intense satisfaction out of figuring out that

Spoiler

It was the german who owned the fish in the green house

then got rather sad that it took me an hour to figure it out.

 

[Once a Human]

Took me 20 minutes, one guess, one change, then I got it no problem. I'm not gonna let you know my IQ though, you're all so intent on insulting the intelligent that I won't give you the satisfaction.