Who owns the fish?

Kevin123 · 2007-03-13 03:30:05

I stayed sitting in a seat for 1 hour trying to work this out. I thought the Norwiegien owned the fish.The Brit owned Birds, the Dane owned Horses, the Swede owned Dogs, and the German owned Cats.The only clue I didn't understand was the second-last one. All the people had a sport or a drink,so I just supposed that the publishers made a mistake or I did.

Person    HouseColour Pet Sport Drink House Number
Brit    Red    Birds    Polo Milk    3
Dane    Blue    Horses Billards Tea    2
Swede    Green    Dogs Baseball Coffee    4
Norwiegien Yellow    Fish Hockey Beer    1
German    White    Cats Soccer Water    5

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JaneFairfax · 2007-03-13 04:20:57

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U7109 · 2007-03-19 18:34:55

Who owns the fish? It's the German, of course. I spent ages working it out!

charmaine · 2007-03-23 14:37:41

I am tutoring a young man in grade 6 who I believe has the correct answer to who owns the fish. He answered as follows
House 1, Yelow, Norwegian, Water, Hockeyand cats.
house 2, Blue, Danish, tea, Baseball and Horses.
House 3, Red, Bitish, Milk, Polo and birds.
House 4, Green, German, Coffee, Soccer and fish.
House 5, White, Swedish, Beer, Billards and Dogs.

can you please let us know if we are correct thank you .

JaneFairfax · 2007-03-23 14:50:52

That is correct.

U7109 · 2007-03-23 18:21:22

Yeah, it's correct.

star_rider1 · 2007-05-01 20:33:01

cool... but i got it in 20mins and just drew a bunch of little pictures! yay i fell smart (for once)

Kurre · 2007-06-02 23:24:59

im sorry to bring up an old topic, but i get a lot of different solutions. The problem was on noggintwister and i can make different combinations that all follow the "rules" and all gives different answers....have i missed something, or are the clues wrong? and is that alergic thing, is that some kind of clue?

Kurre · 2007-06-03 06:51:05

okey i looked at the version at this website, and it actually has one more clue than the one at noggintwisters. I tested it and solved it on ~10 minutes. annoying

keith_27 · 2007-09-21 01:36:11

norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
yellow blue red green white
water tea milk coffee beer
Cats Horses birds fish dogs
hockey Baseball polo Soccer billiards

:')

macFanDave · 2007-10-11 15:26:03

I got the same solution as keith_27, charmaine and JaneFairfax.

The key assumption I made that turns out to be part of this solution is that the green house is ADJACENT to the white one. In American English, at least, the statement "the green house is to the left of the white one" would be true even if the green one were #1 and the white one were at #5. Maybe this is more clear in British English.

elman · 2007-10-29 19:46:53

My friend's 8 year-old girl solved this problem in 2 hours. So week-sitter take note!
The funny thing about this game is that they claim that only 2% can solve it.
MS Excel helped me to solve by eliminating way in around 20 minutes.

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magic123 · 2007-10-30 14:05:48

to JaneFairfax
can i kknow the answer for "who owns the crocodile"

jwlashta · 2008-04-18 21:30:57

The problem isn't too difficult if you lay the information out (viz., in a grid) and fill in information and eliminate possibilities.

My answer was the same as everyone's except the original poster:

Norwegian : house 1 - yellow - water- hockey - cats
Dane : house 2 - blue - tea - baseball - horses
Brit : house 3 - red - milk - polo - birds
German : house 4 - green - coffee - soccer - ?
Swede : house 5 - white - beer - billiards - dogs

The German owns the fish.

To the poster above, the Crocodile puzzle is much easier as the information does not leave any logic gaps that you have to fill yourself.

I really enjoyed both puzzles, especially since I haven't really done much in the way of math since high school--10 years ago.:P

lo · 2008-09-25 06:18:30

I have a different answer but it still works out. I think where I went different was the clue about the green house being on the left of the white. I interpreted that as it only had to be on the left, not directly on the left. My answer is as follows:

House 1 Norwegian, Green, Coffee, Baseball and FISH
House 2 German, Blue, Water, Soccer and cats
House 3 Swede, Yellow, milk, hockey and dogs
House 4 Brit, Red, Beer, Billiards and horses
House 5 Dane, white, tea, polo adn Birds.

It still works and no clue says it is directly on the left just on the left. Guess it can be interpreted different ways.

mastermind786 · 2008-09-29 22:35:08

lol good work

Dileep · 2008-09-30 23:19:44

There is no ambiguity in the question and there is no different answers can be drawn in this problem.
Few people solved the problem as white house coming in the fifth position which is not correct. Green house situated to the left of the white house is not to left of us when we watch the houses facing front side of the houses

So the answer is :
1. Yellow House-Norvegion-Hockey-Water-Cats
2. Blue House- Danish-Baseball-Tea-Horses
3. Red House - British - Polo - Milk- Birds
4. White House - Swedish - Billiards - Beer - Dog
5. Green House - German - Soccer - Coffee - FISH

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