Look Out!  Another Puzzle! — Tony Rogers

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There is a row of five houses painted in five different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain kind of pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

Who owns the fish?

Here are fifteen clues:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps the horse lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Masters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next door to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a next-door neighbour who drinks water.

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