The Five Houses: The Brit, the Dog Owner, and the Gardener
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Five houses stand in a row, numbered 1 to 5 from left to right. Each holds exactly one of each attribute, and no attribute repeats. Work out the full arrangement from these clues:
1. The rabbit owner is immediately to the right of the juice drinker.
2. The Swede is directly next to the reader.
3. The Brit is somewhere to the left of the rabbit owner.
4. The reader is somewhere to the left of the rabbit owner.
5. The beer drinker is immediately to the left of the painter.
6. The person in the white house is not the gardener.
7. The water drinker is immediately to the left of the sailor.
8. The person in the yellow house is not the water drinker.
9. The Swede is immediately to the right of the person in the green house.
10. The painter is not the juice drinker.
11. The tea drinker is immediately to the right of the Norwegian.
12. The German is not the cat owner.
13. The Brit is immediately to the right of the Pole.
14. The tea drinker is not the Pole.
15. The person in the white house is not the juice drinker.
16. The person in the white house is not the horse keeper.
17. The Swede is immediately to the left of the person in the yellow house.
18. The Swede is not the person in the grey house.
19. The baker is not the Pole.
20. The juice drinker is not the cat owner.
21. The dog owner is immediately to the left of the sailor.
22. The person in the green house is somewhere to the left of the beer drinker.
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Solution
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In the final arrangement, which numbered house (1–5) does “the person in the red house” end up at? Answer with the number.
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