The Zebra Puzzle is a logic puzzle said to be invented by Albert Einstein (but who knows), and Wikipedia says that only 2% of the world population is able to solve it (also who knows, but it really made me want to solve it).
Here’s how it goes:
The puzzle consists of five different-colored houses in a row, each lived in by a resident of a different nationality. Each resident owns a different pet, prefers a different drink, and smokes a different brand of cigarettes than the others.
You’re given Z + 15 other facts as rules:
Z – Do it with someone you wish to bond with. Avoid using Google, MS Excel etc. It will be fun !!
- There are five houses.
- The Englishman lives in the red house.
- The Spaniard owns the dog.
- Coffee is drunk in the green house.
- The Ukrainian drinks tea.
- The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house (to your right as you stand facing the row of five houses).
- The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
- Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
- Milk is drunk in the middle house.
- The Norwegian lives in the first house.
- The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
- Kools are smoked in a house next to the house where the horse is kept.
- The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
- The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
To solve the puzzle, tell me:
1) Which man likes to drink water
2) Which man owns a zebra
And for those who got it, how?
