# Chateau de la Tobler

## Friday, November 18, 2005

### Puzzles

Dad brought home some papers with quizzes on them. He thought they would be fun to post on the blog. We decided that one at a time would be good. Here is the first one. Go for it.
There are 5 houses in different colors. 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 Blen has a neighbor who drinks water.
Okay, good luck. By the way, I don't have the answers so I am right in there with you. Love Mom

#### 10 Comments:

- At 11/19/2005 12:54 AM, Keryn said…

  I don't have the answer yet but really, Mema and Daddy, what is up with writing a post about CIGARS? How scandalous!
  Just kidding. Now, if it had been wine...
  :)

- At 11/19/2005 12:03 PM, LaDale said…

  I have an answer. I just hope it's correct after spending about an hour and a half of my Saturday morning thinking about it. I am not very good at these things, but they fascinate me. Here we good. I think that the German owns the fish!

- At 11/19/2005 12:08 PM, LaDale said…

  I mean, "Here we go." "Not here we good."
  LaDale

- At 11/21/2005 9:01 AM, Keryn said…

  I spent about forty minutes trying to figure it out, and got NOWHERE! LaDale, how did you go about figuring it out? Because I'm hopelessly lost.

- At 11/21/2005 1:30 PM, Samuel &amp; Caren, Inc. said…

  We would like to say that we think the American keeps the fish, drinks Pepsi, smokes nothing, and lives in a pink house. No really. We agree with LaDale after discussing the issue for about 10 minutes.

- At 11/21/2005 2:07 PM, LaDale said…

  Great- 10 minutes. That hardly seems fair. Oh, well, these things are clearly not my strong point.

- At 11/21/2005 8:46 PM, Keryn said…

  Yay! I agree! It is the German. I wasn't going to admit how long it took me, but I have no shame. It took me almost an hour tonight after LaDale helped me by telling me to focus on the houses first, and giving me a clue about the order. Yes, these puzzles aren't my strong point. But they are infuriating fun.

- At 11/22/2005 8:48 AM, Samuel &amp; Caren, Inc. said…

  OK. So it wasn't 10 minutes. Caren and I didn't pay close attention to how long it took us. It was quick though. These are fun. I'm glad we can all get along. ;)

- At 11/23/2005 1:21 PM, Telima said…

  Wow, maybe I'll wait for Tyler to get home. I'm not sure that I can answer it by myself. I'll let you all know if we come up with the same thing and how long it took us. =) Love you all!

- At 11/23/2005 2:42 PM, Telima said…

  Okay, so I figured it out, but I can't say that I didn't have help from reading your comments here and an extremely lucky guess. Because of Keryn's comment about the help she received from LaDale, I started in the right direction and then a few lucky guesses later, I got it. It was a lot of fun. I can't wait for the next one.

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