Beware, this one takes wits, brains, persistence, luck, deductive reasoning and common sense.

1. There are 5 houses, each a different color, inhabited by men of different nationalities with diff. pets, drinks and cigarettes.

2. The Englishman, Monk, lives in the red house.

3. The Aussie, Roy, owns the cow.

4. Coffee is drunk in the green house.

5. The Swede, Anders, drinks vodka.

6. The green house is immediately to the right (your right) of the ivory house.

7. The Camel smoker owns worms.

8. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.

9. The American, SebQ, lives in the first house on the left.

10. Brandy is drunk in the middle house.

11. The man who smokes Marlboros lives in the house next to the man w/ the deer.

12. Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the grizzly bear lives.

13. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks beer.

14. The Scotsman, Molina, smokes Winstons.

15. The American lives in the house next to the blue house.


Okkkk...so who owns the Bengal and who drinks Water???
(record on solving this is 17 minutes...the average is 40 minutes...most give up)



May discuss it on the thread, but PM me answers.

This brings back bad memories of the LSAT

SubZero has gotten it half right...in 20 minutes.

i love logic problems but never really did one with this many factors. i set up the chart and then found in the end i had one contradictory answer but hopefully didn't affect my answer.

I know, let's turn this into a thread on how well we all did at various standardized exams!

Or ... you know ... not.

I'm not going to try this one. I did enough puzzles like this for various tests that it feels like doing another exam, rather than a fun puzzle. Ick. I'll pass.

Oooh, I just realized. (Double thread hijack!) If we really want kids not to play poker, we should teach it in school, force everybody to memorize all the proper starting hands, drill and drill, test on it, assign hours of homework every day for months. That'll kill any interest they have...