Who has the pez?

1. Don't try to solve it in your head: the correct way is to set up a board and establish safe positions first.
2. Clues 8 and 9 place two houses from the beginning; The 14th also determines the color of an immediate neighbor.
3. The green-white pair is consecutive and, due to the coffee track, is very restricted. That unlocks much of the board.
4. When you close colors, drinks and tobacco, you will see that the only pet that can be left for the German is the fish.

Answer: The German has the fish. Explanation: This puzzle is not solved by intuition, but by orderly deduction. The clean way to approach it is to build a table with five columns—one per house—and five attribute blocks: color, nationality, drink, tobacco, and pet. ### 1. First fixations - Clue 9 says that the Norwegian lives in the first house.

• Clue 8 places the milk in the central house, that is, in the third.
• On track 14, the Norwegian lives next to the blue house, so the second house is blue. ### 2. Colors Clue 4 says that the green is immediately to the left of the white. Since the second house is already blue, that couple cannot be \(1,2\) or \(2,3\). It also cannot be \(3,4\), because in the third one you drink milk and in the green one you must drink coffee. So the only possibility is: - house 4: green
• house 5: white And on track 5, in house 4 you drink coffee. Red and yellow remain to be distributed between houses 1 and 3. The red one must be that of the British (clue 1). Since the first house is occupied by the Norwegian, the red cannot be the 1st. Therefore: - house 3: red, and the British lives there
• house 1: yellow Clue 7 then adds that Dunhill is smoked in house 1. ### 3. Drinks We already have:
• house 3: milk
• house 4: coffee Clue 3 says that the Dane drinks tea. Since the 1st house belongs to the Norwegian and the 3rd to the British, the Dane can only be in the 2nd or the 5th. ### 4. Neighborhood relations Clue 11 states that someone who owns horses lives next to someone who smokes Dunhill. Since Dunhill is in house 1, the horses have to be in house 2. Clue 10 says that someone who smokes Blends lives next to someone who has cats.

Clue 15 adds that whoever smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water. These two conditions, combined with what has already been set, end up forcing that Blends cannot be in either 1 or 5 and allow the central block of the table to be closed. ### 5. Tobacco and nationalities Clue 13 says German smokes Prince.
Clue 12 says that whoever smokes BlueMaster drinks beer.
Clue 6 says that whoever smokes Pall Mall raises birds. When these three clues are crossed with the colors already set, the drinks placed and the neighborhood restrictions, the only compatible assignment turns out to be this: 1. House 1: yellow — Norwegian — water — Dunhill — cats

1. House 2: blue — Danish — tea — Blends — horses
2. House 3: red — British — milk — Pall Mall — birds
3. House 4: green — German — brown — Prince — fish
4. House 5: white — Swedish — beer — BlueMaster — dog The complete table satisfies all the clues and leaves no alternative. Therefore, the German is the one who has the fish.