Oic it's a process of elimination puzzle. At first I missed the last clue "and keeps a different pet". Crucial for solving the puzzle. By the way, the "walleye pike" is a bit of a diversion. The real question is, "Who owns the fish?"
It should have been phrased so that each clue was on it's own line. I am a victim of speed reading, not of lack of intelligence. ;-) This is rather like Sudoku, working a problem backwards by eliminating the impossibles, leaving only the answers. Bob On Dec 26, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Folks, > I was presented with this logic puzzle, supposedly conceived by Albert > Einstein, over Christmas and am passing it on for your enjoyment and/or > frustration. I'm assured there are no tricks and that the puzzle can be > solved by pure logic. Might be an interesting exercise to solve it with > Livecode; > > There are 5 houses in a row > Each house is a different color. > In each house lives a person of different nationality > Each house owner drinks a different drink, smokes a different brand of > cigarette, and keeps a different pet > > The question is who owns the Walleye Pike? > > The clues are as follows. > > 1. The Brit lives in the red house > 2. The Swede owns a dog > 3. The Dane drinks tea > 4. The green house is on the left of the white house > 5. The green house owner drinks coffee > 6. The owner who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds > 7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills > 8. The owner of the house in the center drinks milk. > 9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the person who keeps cats > 10. The Norwegian lives in the first house > 11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one that smokes Dunhills > 12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer. > 13. The German smokes Princes > 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house > 15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water. > > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
