Answer to June 18, 2001 Problem

Contributed by Walt Arrison

The Five Houses

 
There are five houses, each a different color. There are five persons of different nationality, each of whom drinks a different beverage, enjoys a different snack, and keeps a different pet.

The object is to put each in their proper place.

Here are your clues:

A) The Brit lives in the red house.

B) The Swede has a dog.

C) The Dane drinks tea.

D) The person who likes potato chips has a bird.

E) The person in the yellow house likes donuts.

F) The green house is to the left of the white house (your left as you look at them).

G) The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

H) The person who eats Baby Ruths, lives next to the cats.

I) The person who eats peanut butter crackers, drinks Birch Beer.

J) The German loves pizza.

K) The person who lives in the center house drinks milk.

L) The Norwegian lives in the first house.

M) The person in the green house drinks coffee.

N) The horses are next to the yellow house.

O) The neighbor of the person who eats Baby Ruths, drinks water.

P) The only animal not mentioned in the clues is a fish.

 

Solution to Problem:

House #1 House #2 House #3 House #4 House #5
Nowegian Dane Brit German Swede
Donuts Baby Ruths Potato Chips Pizza Peanut Butter Crackers
Water Tea Milk Coffee Birch Beer
Cat Horse Bird Fish Dog
Yellow Blue Red Green White


Correctly solved by:

1. Richard K. Johnson La Jolla, California
2. Renata Sommerville Austin, Texas
3.John Lybarger Calhoun Community College, Alabama
4. ---------- United Kingdom
5. ---------- United Kingdom
6. Joe Heintz Manchester, Tennessee