[net.puzzle] Who Owns the Zebra?

wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) (05/09/84)

Here is another logic tester puzzle called "Who owns the Zebra".
This one first came out in Reader's Digest many years ago and
has been passed around many times.  Please don't flame about
copyright on this one, Reader's Digest admits they got it from
a mimeographed sheet that came to them ANON.

1.   There are five houses, each of a different color, and inhabited
     by men of different nationalities, with different pets, drinks,
     and cigarettes.
2.   The Englishman lives in the red house.
3.   The Spaniard owns the dog.
4.   Coffee is drunk in the green house.
5.   The Ukrainian drinks tea.
6.   The green house is immediately to the right (your right) of
     the ivory house.
7.   The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
8.   Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
9.   Milk is drunk in the middle house.
10.  The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house
     next to the man with the fox.
11.  The Norwegian lives in the first house on the left.
12.  Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where
     the horse is kept.
13.  The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
14.  The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
15.  The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

Question:  Who drinks Water and who owns the Zebra?

The answer to the previous puzzle is ........














Mr. Gull    One right answer came in.

T. C. Wheeler