RE: Find the owner
The German. It’s easiest to solve this riddle by creating a grid organized by order of the houses, you can then fill in the house number of the Norwegian, the person who drinks milk, and the blue house:
| House # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Color | Blue | ||||
| Nationality | Norwegian | ||||
| Drink | Milk | ||||
| Smoke | |||||
| Pet |
These facts can all also be determined from the clues:
Brit – Red House
Swede – Dogs
Dane – Tea
Green House – Coffee
Pall Mall – Birds
Yellow House – Dunhill
Blue-masters – Beer
German – Prince
Green House is to left of the White House
Blends is next to Cats
Horse is next to Dunhill
Blends is next to Water
With this information these facts can be determined:
- House 3 cannot be green because whoever lives there drinks milk and not coffee.
- House 4 must be green since the green house needs a white house to its right.
- House one cannot be red because the Brit doesn’t live there.
This info leads to a single color order:
| House # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Color | Yellow | Blue | Red | Green | White |
| Nationality | Norwegian | Brit | |||
| Drink | Milk | Coffee | |||
| Smoke | Dunhill | ||||
| Pet |
The following information can now be determined:
- The horse has to be at house 2 because it is next to the Dunhills.
- House 1 and 3 can’t have birds, dogs, or Pall Malls.
- House 2 is where the Dane lives because of the horse.
- House 5 has the beer, Blue-masters, Swede, and dogs.
| House # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Color | Yellow | Blue | Red | Green | White |
| Nationality | Norwegian | Dane | Brit | German | Swede |
| Drink | Tea | Milk | Coffee | Beer | |
| Smoke | Dunhill | Prince | Blue-masters | ||
| Pet | Horse | Dogs |
With this version of the table we can now find the information pertaining to solving the riddle completely:
- House 3 has to have the Pall Mall and birds.
- Since blends must be next to cats blends must be at house 2 and cats at house 1.
- The Norwegian has the water.
- The German is the only one without a pet so his a the fish!
| House # | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Color | Yellow | Blue | Red | Green | White |
| Nationality | Norwegian | Dane | Brit | German | Swede |
| Drink | Water | Tea | Milk | Coffee | Beer |
| Smoke | Dunhill | Blends | Pall Mall | Prince | Blue-masters |
| Pet | Cate | Horse | Bird | Fish | Dogs |
SherlockHolmes
Copy of http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/crossing-the-bridge-puzzle-bridge-and-torch-problem-2/
SherlockHolmes
DUPLICATE – http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/crossing-the-bridge-puzzle-bridge-and-torch-problem-2/
ronret45
Duplicate
SherlockHolmes
Duplicate – http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/25-horses-5-tracks-puzzle/
SherlockHolmes
DUPLICATE – http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/crossing-the-bridge-puzzle-bridge-and-torch-problem-2/
SherlockHolmes
http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/crossing-the-bridge-puzzle-bridge-and-torch-problem-2/
samratchoudharyiitr
ans is 4
lazywarrior
But why would he wrote such complex thing? Not complex as in case of detective but how the victim wrote that? If he had a phone then why he didnt call the police?
dougbell
This puzzle is a repeat of
http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/red-and-blue-marbles-interview-puzzle
http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/red-and-blue-marbles-2
http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/red-and-blue-marbles
http://puzzlefry.com/search-questions/50+marbles
I don’t think a fifth copy of the same puzzle is useful.
jayeshram7
13
dougbell
There are 12 answers to this puzzle. For every hour, there is a position of the minute hand such that the hour and minute hands are equal distance from the 6.
SherlockHolmes
There are more than 12 answers to the puzzles, please specify the same in answer. 🙂
Think about it, even more than 20 answers are possible 🙂
CHITTIBABU
13
Rahulpuzzlefry
He used 10 parachutes for 10 dead bodies and 1 for himself so that he can flew with them together. And because no one knows that all the 10 people were dead, It will be a little hard to find where the terrorist had landed.
SherlockHolmes
Dpplicate – http://puzzlefry.com/puzzles/ant-and-triangle-problem/
bharathraj
start A and B at a time.
A =11,B=13
After A completed Reverse A.
After B completed in A 2 minutes will be recorded.Stop B and turn A one more time u will get 15 minutes.
1.A=11,B ==13
2.A=11
3.A=2.B=13
4,A=2+B
GeNiUs
There can obviously be many answers.
So keep them coming!! 🙂
Chi
Don’t you think rate of burning across the rope has to be uniform? Otherwise this burning from both sides won’t get you to the result.
Again in the second part if the ropes are not identical again rate of burning would be an issue.
Viji_Pinarayi
🙂
Dileep
Women and doctors are the same.
thesucker
So my answer was wrong?
At least you should say something. Yes! No!
thesucker
LOL!!
Something is missing in the description!
ANUDEEP REDDY Gouru
your name
diva
0
diwakar1502
Step 1: Move coin 7 to left of coin 2
Step 2: Move coin 10 to right of coin 3 and finally
Step 3: Move coin 1 from top to bottom of coin 8 and coin 9;
So sequence would be:
7 2 3 10
4 5 6
8 9
1