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On 26/09/2015 6:21 AM, Jimmie Wynne wrote:
> There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row. In each house lives a
> person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of
> beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No
> owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same
> beverage. Other facts:
>
> 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 immediate left of the white house.
> 5. The green house's owner drinks coffee.
> 6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
> 7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
> 8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
> 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
> 10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
> 11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
> 12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
> 13. The German smokes Prince.
> 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
> 15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
>
> The question is: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
>

Since there is no stated fact to the effect that there exists a fish 
that is owned by someone, the question cannot be answered without making 
an assumption.

Sylvia.