See also the Pro/3 solution to the puzzle, facts and rules used and the step-by-step guide to set up the required knowledge base cluster. The answer is not shown - so you either have to run Pro/3's model, build your own model or put your problem-solving skills to test.

 

The question is: Who keeps the fish? The following clues will help you find the answer.

  1. The Brit lives in the red house.
  2. The Swede keeps a dog.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The green house is on the left side of the white house.
  5. The person in the green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall keeps a bird.
  7. The person in the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The person in the center house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the leftmost house.
  10. The person who smokes Blend lives next to the person who keeps a cat.
  11. The person who keeps a horse lives next to the person who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The person who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

Note:

A few precisions can be made to make things entirely clear. The houses are located side by side such that the leftmost and rightmost houses have only one neighbor house, while the three in the middle each has two neighbor houses (e.g. the houses do not stand in a ring). "next to", "on the left side of" and "neighbor" refer to immediately left to, next to etc.