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Question: There are 5 houses painted 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These 5 people each drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. None of them have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green homeowner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
The German smokes prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Who owns the fish?

Answer: The German. It's easiest to solve this riddle by creating a grid organized by order of the houses, you can then fill in the house number of the Norwegian, the person who drinks milk, and the blue house:

House #12345
ColorBlue
NationalityNorwegian
DrinkMilk
Smoke
Pet

These facts can all also be determined from the clues:

Brit - Red House
Swede - Dogs
Dane - Tea
Green House - Coffee
Pall Mall - Birds
Yellow House - Dunhill
Blue-masters - Beer
German - Prince
Green House is to left of the White House
Blends is next to Cats
Horse is next to Dunhill
Blends is next to Water

With this information these facts can be determined:

  1. House 3 cannot be green because whoever lives there drinks milk and not coffee.
  2. House 4 must be green since the green house needs a white house to its right.
  3. House one cannot be red because the Brit doesn't live there.

This info leads to a single color order:

House #12345
ColorYellowBlueRedGreenWhite
NationalityNorwegianBrit
DrinkMilkCoffee
SmokeDunhill
Pet

The following information can now be determined:

  1. The horse has to be at house 2 because it is next to the Dunhills.
  2. House 1 and 3 can't have birds, dogs, or Pall Malls.
  3. House 2 is where the Dane lives because of the horse.
  4. House 5 has the beer, Blue-masters, Swede, and dogs.
House #12345
ColorYellowBlueRedGreenWhite
NationalityNorwegianDaneBritGermanSwede
DrinkTeaMilkCoffeeBeer
SmokeDunhillPrinceBlue-masters
PetHorseDogs

With this version of the table we can now find the information pertaining to solving the riddle completely:

  1. House 3 has to have the Pall Mall and birds.
  2. Since blends must be next to cats blends must be at house 2 and cats at house 1.
  3. The Norwegian has the water.
  4. The German is the only one without a pet so his a the fish!
House #12345
ColorYellowBlueRedGreenWhite
NationalityNorwegianDaneBritGermanSwede
DrinkWaterTeaMilkCoffeeBeer
SmokeDunhillBlendsPall MallPrinceBlue-masters
PetCateHorseBirdFishDogs

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Question: An empty bus pulls up to a stop and 10 people get on. At the next stop 5 people get off and twice as many people get on as at the first stop. At the third stop 25 get off.

How many people are on the bus at this point?

Answer: Just 1, the driver.

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Question: Can you rearrange the letters in new door to make one word?

Answer: Yes, it's an anagram. 'New door' and 'one word' contain the same letters.

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Question: What's the angle between minute hand and hour hand at a quarter past three?

Answer: 7.5 degrees.

The minute hand is pointing directly at the '3'. The hour hand is 1/4 of the way between the '3' and '4'. Since there are 12 numbers the angle between each number is 30 degrees. So the angle between the hands are 30 degrees * 1/4 = 7.5 degrees.

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Question: A fast food restaurant sells chicken in orders of 6, 9, and 20.

What is the largest number of pieces of chicken you cannot order from this restaurant?

Answer: 43.

After 6 all numbers divisible by 3 can be ordered (because they can all be expressed as a sum of 6's and 9's). After 26, all numbers divisible by three when subtracted by 20 can be obtained. After 46, all numbers divisible by three when subtracted by 40 can be obtained. After 46, all numbers fit into one of these 3 categories, so all numbers can be obtained. 43 is the last number that doesn't fall into one of these categories (44 = 20 + 6 * 4, 45 = 6 * 6 + 9).

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