Brain Teaser: Who Owns the Fish?

So I was looking for something new and different to do for this weekend's Ask Slashdot. Lo and behold mallocat submits a logic problem! "I wanted to try and use the Slashdot effect to attack this brainteaser. A couple of my friends and I each sepeartely solved it in about an hour..." that's the time to beat, but I'm giving you all till midnight Sunday to figure it out, and then I'll post the solution on Monday in forum. It's simple: First person to solve the problem (determined by timestamp of comment submission), with proof, wins. Winner gets a hearty, virtual slap on the back. I'd offer more, but since I have no budget, that makes it rather problematic. <grin!> So without further ado, click on that link! Albert Einstein wrote this riddle. He was quoted saying that he believed that 98% of the world could not solve it. Are you in the top 2% of intelligent people in the world? There is no trick-just pure logic.

Good luck.

1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors, all in a row.
2. In each house lives a different person with a different nationality.
3. These 5 people drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
4. No person has the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.
5. The Brit lives in the Red house.
6. The Swede has a dog.
7. The Dane drinks tea.
8. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
9. The Green house's owner drinks coffee.
10. The person who smokes Pall Mall has a bird.
11. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
12. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
13. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
14. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the cat owner.
15. The man who owns a horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
16. The man who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer.
17. The Berman Smokes Prince.
18. The Norwegian lives next to the Blue House.
19. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the Fish?

Comments

26 minutes....

[dvdbn]

good god. alright i spent a total of 26 minutes on this and this is what i came up with.

going from left to right....

House #1
-Yellow
-Norwegian
-Dunhill
-Cat
-Water

House #2
-Blue
-Dane
-Blends
-Horse
-Tea

House #3 (center)
-Red
-Brit
-Pall Mall
-Bird
-Milk

House #4
-Green
-Berman
-Prince
-Fish
-Coffee

House #5
-White
-Swede
-BlueMaster
-Dog
-Beer

i went over it three times and everything works out. so the Berman has the fish. hope that's right.