Gentle Readers and Frustrated Puzzle Enthusiasts: On Wed, May 29th, I shared the following puzzle: >Given the following facts: > > 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. > >Question: > > 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 ^ | The Answer Is------------------------------- The "{}" items indicate the missing items given in the question and the only possible placement of them. ============================================================================ -- Jerry =================================================== Democrary is a process by which the people are free to choose the person who will get the blame. -- Lawrence J. Peter ===================================================