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Orginal (?) Einstein Puzzle

Orginal (?) Einstein Puzzle

There are 5 houses. each a different colour. A person of a different nationality is in each house. The 5 owners each drink a certain drink, each smoke a certain brand of cigarette, and each have a certain pet. No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigarettes nor drinks the same drink as any other. The question is: Who has the fish?

Properties

position
1 2 3 4 5
color
yellow blue red white green
nationality
norwegian swedish english danish german
pet
hare horse bird dog cat
drink
water tea milk beer coffee
cigarette
pall_mall blend prince dunhill bluemaster

Rules

1. The British man lives in the red house. (equivalence nationality = english color = red )

2. The Swedish man has a dog for a pet. (equivalence nationality = swedish pet = dog )

3. The Danish man drinks tea. (equivalence nationality = danish drink = tea )

4. The green house is to the left of the white house (to_right color = white color = green )

5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee (equivalence color = green drink = coffee )

6. The person that smokes Pall Mall has a bird (equivalence cigarette = pall_mall pet = bird )

7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill (equivalence color = yellow cigarette = dunhill )

8. The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk (equivalence position = 2 drink = milk )

9. The Norwegian lives in the first house (equivalence position = 0 nationality = norwegian )

10. The person that smokes Blend, lives next to the one that has a cat (neighbor cigarette = blend pet = cat )

11. The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill (neighbor pet = horse cigarette = dunhill )

12. The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer (equivalence cigarette = bluemaster drink = beer )

13. The German smokes Prince (equivalence nationality = german cigarette = prince )

14. The Norwegian lives next to a blue house (neighbor nationality = norwegian color = blue )

15. The person that smokes Blend, has a neighbour that drinks water (neighbor cigarette = blend drink = water )