The Five Houses: The Person in the Yellow House, the Painter, 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 water drinker is immediately to the left of the Norwegian.
2. The Dane is somewhere to the left of the rabbit owner.
3. The Norwegian is not the painter.
4. The person in the blue house is immediately to the left of the sailor.
5. The Swede is somewhere to the left of the juice drinker.
6. The rabbit owner is not the reader.
7. The reader is not the cat owner.
8. The fish keeper is immediately to the left of the person in the blue house.
9. The Swede is somewhere to the left of the person in the yellow house.
10. The coffee drinker is immediately to the right of the horse keeper.
11. The person in the yellow house is not the Dane.
12. The bird keeper is directly next to the person in the green house.
13. The Dane is not the painter.
14. The Pole is somewhere to the left of the chess player.
15. The reader is immediately to the right of the baker.
16. The beer drinker is immediately to the left of the reader.
17. The Swede is immediately to the left of the water drinker.
18. The Pole is somewhere to the left of the person in the white house.
19. The person in the red house is immediately to the right of the painter.
Hints
Hint 1
Hint 2
Hint 3
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 water drinker” end up at? Answer with the number.
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