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Gentle Readers and Frustrated Puzzle Enthusiasts:
On Wed, May 29th, I shared the following puzzle:
>Given the following facts:
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> 1. There are five houses.
> 2. The green house is directly to the right of the ivory house.
> 3. The Englishman has a red house.
> 4. The dog belongs to the Spaniard.
> 5. The Ukranian drinks tea.
> 6. The Chesterfield smoker lives next to the fox.
> 7. The Japanese man smokes Parliaments.
> 8. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
> 9. Ale is drunk in the green house.
> 10. Kools are smoked in the house next to the horse.
> 11. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
> 12. The Lucky smoker drinks whiskey
> 13. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
> 14. The Old Gold smoker owns a snail.
> 15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
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>Question:
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> Does the Zebra's owner drink Vodka or Ale?
A few people thought there wasn't sufficient information to answer the
question. However, I did receive a number of responses with the following
results:
Correct Answers (w/proof!): 12
Correct Guesses: 1
Wrong Answers: 1
Wrong Guesses: 1 (50-50 chance!)
The person who submitted the first correct answer was Pete Crosby from HP.
Now we know what those Response Center folks are *really* doing! ;-)
The following is the solution to the puzzle. If you want to don't want to
see it just yet, stop here.....!
=========================== S O L U T I O N =============================
To solve the puzzle, for each of the 5 houses you must identify:
A. Color of the house
B. Occupant
C. Owner's favorite drink
D. Owner's brand of cigarettes
E. Owner's pet
House: 1 2 3 4 5
Color: Yellow Blue Red Ivory Green
Drink: {vodka} Tea Milk Whiskey Ale
Animal: Fox Horse Snail Dog {zebra}
Occupant: Norwegian Ukranian Englishman Spaniard Japanese
Cigarette: Kools Chesterfield Old Gold Luckies Parlements
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The Answer Is-------------------------------
The "{}" items indicate the missing items given in the question and the only
possible placement of them.
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-- Jerry
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Democrary is a process by which the people are
free to choose the person who will get the blame.
-- Lawrence J. Peter
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