Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bambi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!bambi!lamb From: lamb@bambi.UUCP (John Lamb) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: Who owns the zebra (SPOILER) Message-ID: <47@bambi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 16:27:10 EDT Article-I.D.: bambi.47 Posted: Wed Aug 1 16:27:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 00:01:21 EDT Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc. Lines: 34 Thanks for one of my favorite types of puzzles. I constructed this solution on my lunch hour: Since the Norwegian lives in the first house and is next to the blue house, the second house is blue. Since the Englishman's house is red and the ivory and green houses are adjacent, the first house is yellow and Kools are smoked there by the Norwegian. Since milk is drunk in the middle house, coffee in the green house, orange juice by the lucky strike smoker, and tea by the Ukranian, the Norwegian drinks water. The horse is next door to the Kools smoker, or in the blue, second house. Since the Englishman's house is red and the Spaniard owns a dog, neither of them live in the second house. Since the Japanese smokes Parliaments, he neither drinks orange juice nor smokes Lucky Strikes. Since the Ukranian drinks tea and the Norwegian drinks water, the Japanese must drink coffee or milk. Since coffee is drunk in the green house and milk in the middle house, neither are drunk in the second house, so the Japanese doesn't live there either. Therefore the tea-drinking Ukranian and his horse live in the second house. Now the snail owner smokes Old Golds, the Japanese Parliaments, the Norwegian Kools and the orange juice drinker Lucky Strikes, so the Ukranian smokes Chesterfields. Since the Spaniard owns a dog, he does not smoke Old Golds, but rather Lucky Strikes. This leaves the Englishman with the Old Golds and snails; since he lives in a red house, he does not drink coffee so he is also the milk drinker. Therefore the Englishman lives in the middle house and the fox must live on the other side of the Chesterfield smoker, with the Norwegian. Since the spaniard keeps the dog, the Japanese owns the zebra. John Lamb, Bellcore, ...!ihnp4!bambi!lamb