Einstein's Puzzle

[AL]

Some of you may have seen this before, but for those who haven't this is supposedly a puzzle written by Einstein, and he supposedly predicted that 98% of people wouldn't be able to figure it out. I seriously doubt that Einstein is the actual author of this puzzle, and I expect Snopes.com to debunk this claim someday, but nevertheless the puzzle is a decent one, so here goes:

 

There are 5 houses in five different colors.

In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

These 5 owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain brand of tobacco and keep a certain pet.

No owners have the same pet, smoke the same tobacco, or drink the same drink.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

 

Hints:

The Brit lives in the red house

The Swede keeps dogs as pets

The Dane drinks tea

The green house is on the left of the white house

The green house owner drinks coffee

The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill

The man living in the house right in the center 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 Dunhill

The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks juice

The German smokes Prince

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house

The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

[Sayonara]

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[AL]

Whoops, sorry.

I did a search for Einstein's Puzzle and nothing turned up, so I assumed it had never been posted before. I guess you can delete this thread.

 

Edit: Wait, now I remember I didn't search at all. I usually search before creating a new thread.

[r1dermon]

its the german. that took me like...an hour. lol.

[Guest mkfl]

Thanks for the puzzle. It was fun. Figured out that it was the German after about 45 minutes.

The puzzle does require two assumptions that were not explicitly mentioned:

1. the houses are aligned in a horizontal row

2. the left-most house is the first house

[Solaris]

i did this test in romanian some weeks ago. it was the german (solved it in 8 minutes)

[psi20]

Yeah, I got the German too. I was thinking to myself while I was doing the puzzle, "Shoot, green is left of white? What if Einstein was walking around the houses and saw the the backsides of the houses (meaning viewed from the front side would be the opposite)? That would screw me up!"