Streeeetch Your Mind!
1. EINSTEIN'S PUZZLE
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?
• The Brit lives in a red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
• The green house owner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
• The German smokes Prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
2. TRADE CONVENTION
Messrs Butcher, Baker, Carpenter and Plumber are currently attending a convention. No one is currently, nor ever has been in the same profession as their name and no one has had the same profession twice. Alan is now a butcher, whereas Mr. Brian Butcher used to be a baker. The person who is now a carpenter used to be a butcher. Charlie has never been a baker, Mr. Darren Carpenter has never been a butcher and Mr. Baker is not now a carpenter. Can you determine their full names, along with their current and previous professions?
3. STUDENT ACCOMMODATION
Alex, Bret, Chris, Derek, Eddie, Fred, Greg, Harold, and John are nine students who live in a three-storey building, with three rooms on each floor. A room in the West wing, one in the centre, and one in the East wing. If you look directly at the building, the left side is West and the right side is East. Each student is assigned exactly one room. Can you find where each of their rooms is:
1. Harold does not live on the bottom floor.
2. Fred lives directly above John and directly next to Bret (who lives in the West wing).
3. Eddie lives in the East wing and one floor higher than Fred.
4. Derek lives directly above Fred.
5. Greg lives directly above Chris.
Answers:
1. This puzzle is usually attributed to Einstein, who may or may not have written it. The German owns the fish and the table below details the full answer:
| Nationality | Colour | Beverage | Smokes | Pet |
| Norwegian | yellow | water | Dunhill | cats |
| Dane | blue | tea | Blend | horses |
| Brit | red | milk | Pall Mall | birds |
| German | green | coffee | Prince | fish |
| Swede | white | beer | Blue Master | dogs |
2.
| Name | Current | Previous |
| Alan Baker | Butcher | Carpenter |
| Brian Butcher | Plumber | Baker |
| Charlie Plumber | Carpenter | Butcher |
| Darren Carpenter | Baker | Plumber |
3. From the highest floor to lowest we have:
West; Centre; East
| Harold | Derek | Eddie |
| Bret | Fred | Greg |
| Alex | John | Chris |