Einstein's Riddle

 This is a riddle in the category famous riddles. Einstein said that only 2% of the world could solve this problem.

 There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Hints:

• The Brit lives in the red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the left of the white house.
• The green homeowner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the center house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
• The German smokes prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the fish?


THE ANSWER 

The person in house 4 owns the fish. The situation looks like this:

house	1	2	3	4	5
color	yellow	blue	red	green	white
nationality	norweigian	dane	brit	german	swede
drink	water	tea	milk	coffee	beer
smoke	dunhill	blend	pall mall	prince	bluemaster
pet	cats	horse	birds	fish	dogs