The Five Houses: The Horse Keeper, the Chess Player, and the Coffee Drinker

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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 person in the green house is somewhere to the left of the reader. 2. The cat owner is immediately to the left of the person in the grey house. 3. The person in the grey house is not the water drinker. 4. The person in the blue house is immediately to the left of the water drinker. 5. The painter is the juice drinker. 6. The reader is not the horse keeper. 7. The fish keeper is not the milk drinker. 8. The horse keeper is directly next to the gardener. 9. The person in the white house is immediately to the right of the water drinker. 10. The dog owner is the chess player. 11. The dog owner is immediately to the left of the coffee drinker. 12. The person in the green house is not the horse keeper. 13. The reader is the tea drinker. 14. The dog owner is immediately to the right of the person in the blue house. 15. The gardener is immediately to the right of the painter.

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

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