Brain teasers

[mcjah]

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

[Warnie]

House number 1, with the norwegian has fish. Birds or cats are in #3 or #5, horses are taken by #2 and #4 can have dogs and #1 cant, therefore #1 has the fish

[Finly Owner]

the german who lives in the greenhouse, smoking prince, drinking coffee, keeps fish!



Tim

[Warnie]

Who is right mcjah???

[Bob]

Decipher this common location:
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[Bob]

downtown
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Very Clever Plassy Another Banana for you LOL LOL

[growler2058]

Very Clever Plassy Another Banana for you LOL LOL

Doh!!! I thought that was to simple so didnt post

[mcjah]

sorry I have been away from the computer


this puzzle is usually attributed to Einstein, who may or may not have written it.
The German owns the fish and the table below has the full answer.
Nationality: Norweg Dane Brit German Swede
Colour : Yellow Blue Red Green White
Beverage : water tea milk coffee beer
Smokes : Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Pet : cats horses birds fish dogs

[Bob]

When Question Mark unlocked the door, he thought that he would see his wallet straight away. But Skid Mark (Question's brother) decided to put the wallet in a safe. The combination is three 2-digit numbers which can be expressed like this:

xx-xx-xx

You are given the following clues to work out the combination:

The total of the three numbers is 39.
The second number is half of the third number.
The first number is the third number minus 1.

Can you find Question's wallet in time? It's all up to you.

[Maxhead]

When Question Mark unlocked the door, he thought that he would see his wallet straight away. But Skid Mark (Question's brother) decided to put the wallet in a safe. The combination is three 2-digit numbers which can be expressed like this:

xx-xx-xx

You are given the following clues to work out the combination:

The total of the three numbers is 39.
The second number is half of the third number.
The first number is the third number minus 1.

Can you find Question's wallet in time? It's all up to you.

Could it be 15 08 16