Who Owns the Zebra?
This word problem has 25 variables and 24 are given values. You must solve for the 25th. The trick is HOW? If you look at it the problem mathematically, no sweat. If you get lost in the English, you are dead.
You will know you are right by checking the answer with all the conditions. Less than 1% of the population can solve this problem.
The question is, based on the following clues, who owns the zebra?
- There are five houses.
- Each house has it's own unique color.
- All house owners are of different nationalities.
- They all have different pets.
- They all drink different drinks.
- They all smoke different cigarettes.
- The Englishman lives in the red house.
- The Swede has a dog.
- The Dane drinks tea.
- The green house is on the left side of the white house.
- In the green house they drink coffee.
- The man who smokes Pall Mall has birds.
- In the yellow house they smoke Dunhill.
- In the middle house they drink milk.
- The Norwegian lives in the first house.
- The man who smokes Blend, lives in the house next to the house with cats.
- In the house next to the house where they have a horse, they smoke Dunhill.
- The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
- The German smokes Prince.
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
- They drink water in the House next to the house where they smoke Blend.
Q: Who owns the Zebra?
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