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Five houses of Einstein

Five houses of Einstein by Isabel Wang.
I was reading "The Houdini Solution"; there's a puzzle all the way at the end. Einstein supposedly came up with it.

There are 5 houses of 5 different colors with owners of 5 different nationalities. Each owns a different kind of pet, prefers a different kind of drink and smokes a different brand of cigar. The question was, who owns fish? It took me a lot of scribbling to figure it out.

* The Brit lives in a red house
* The Swede has a dog
* The Dane likes tea
* The green house is next to the white one
* The person in the green house likes coffee
* The person who smokes Pall Mall has birds
* The person in the yellow house smokes DUnhill
* The person in the middle house likes milk
* The Norwegian lives in the first house
* The person who smokes Blend lives next to the one who owns cats
* The person who owns horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
* The person who smokes Blue Master likes beer
* The German smokes Prince
* The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
* The person who smokes Blend lives next to the one who drinks water 

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Satin Strayhorn  Pro User  says:

Oh, my husband was trying to solve this thing some days ago. Either this or something very similar.
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shazymo  Pro User  says:

I'd believe whatever you told me - these logic tests are sooo beyond me! I really admire you for working it out! mind you, maybe i could do it if i had little boxes, and little people and all the items in miniature, then i could swap them around in a way that i could SEE the puzzle, then it might work!!
Yes, a visual person, that's me - even my spreadsheets at work are in colours so i can work them out better HHAAA!!
I like the pic, by the way - an interesting subject!
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Jason Gulledge  Pro User  says:

This reminds me of puzzles I had to figure out when I was studying for my LSAT.
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