The Zebra Puzzle

The Setup:

1. There are five houses.
2. The Englishman lives in the red house.
3. The Spaniard owns the dog.
4. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
5. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
6. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
7. The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
9. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
12. Kools are smoked in a house next to the house where the horse is kept.
13. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
14. The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The Problem: Who drinks water? Who owns the zebra?

• Each of the five houses is painted a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke different brands of American cigarettes.
• In statement 6, right refers to the reader's right.
• It is possible not only to deduce the answers to the questions but to figure out who lives where, in what color house, keeping what pet, drinking what drink, and smoking what brand of cigarettes.

The Solution:

house	1	2	3	4	5
color	yellow	blue	red	ivory	green
nationality	Norwegian	Ukrainian	Englishman	Spaniard	Japanese
drink	water	tea	milk	orange juice	coffee
smoke	Kools	Chesterfield	Old Gold	Lucky Strike	Parliament
pet	fox	horse	snails	dog	zebra