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The Five Houses: The Coffee Drinker, the Cat Owner, and the Painter

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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 beer drinker is immediately to the right of the person in the blue house. 2. The milk drinker is not the Norwegian. 3. The Brit is immediately to the right of the coffee drinker. 4. The juice drinker is somewhere to the left of the fish keeper. 5. The sailor is immediately to the right of the reader. 6. The Norwegian is somewhere to the left of the person in the green house. 7. The Dane is not the reader. 8. The sailor is immediately to the right of the person in the grey house. 9. The cat owner is immediately to the left of the reader. 10. The Swede is immediately to the right of the person in the grey house. 11. The bird keeper is immediately to the left of the horse keeper. 12. The horse keeper is immediately to the left of the water drinker. 13. The painter is immediately to the right of the juice drinker. 14. The person in the red house is immediately to the left of the gardener. 15. The German is directly next to the cat owner. 16. The water drinker is not the cat owner. 17. The cat owner is somewhere to the left of the milk drinker. 18. The person in the grey house is not the German.

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Solution

Commit an attempt to unseal the proof. Write your answer — right or wrong, thinking it through is the point.

In the final arrangement, which numbered house (1–5) does “the coffee drinker” end up at? Answer with the number.

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