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The Five Houses: The Tea Drinker, the Sailor, and the Person in the Yellow House

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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 red house is immediately to the left of the chess player. 2. The person in the grey house is somewhere to the left of the Pole. 3. The person in the green house is directly next to the painter. 4. The person in the red house is not the Brit. 5. The bird keeper is somewhere to the left of the person in the red house. 6. The horse keeper is not the person in the green house. 7. The juice drinker is not the Brit. 8. The person in the white house is immediately to the right of the dog owner. 9. The cat owner is immediately to the right of the person in the green house. 10. The reader is directly next to the Swede. 11. The Swede is immediately to the left of the milk drinker. 12. The Dane is somewhere to the left of the sailor. 13. The coffee drinker is immediately to the right of the tea drinker. 14. The Pole is somewhere to the left of the Norwegian. 15. The coffee drinker is immediately to the left of the person in the red house. 16. The person in the yellow house is immediately to the right of the horse keeper. 17. The water drinker is somewhere to the left of the reader. 18. The reader is immediately to the right of the Dane. 19. The Pole is somewhere to the left of the milk drinker.

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 Dane” end up at? Answer with the number.

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