The situation
There are five houses in five different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. Other facts:
- The Brit lives in the red house.
- The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
- The Spanish keeps a dog as pet.
- The Japanese smokes “Parliament”.
- The Norwegian lives in the first house.
- The owner who keeps the horse smokes “Kool”.
- The neighbor of who has a fox smokes “Chesterfield”.
- The owner who rears snails smokes “Old Gold”.
- The man who drinks orange juice smokes “Lucky Strike”.
- The green house is on the right of the ivory-coloured house.
- The owner of the yellow house smokes ”Kool”.
- The yellow house's owner drinks coffee.
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
- The Ukrainian drinks tea.
- The man who smokes “Chesterfield” has a neighbor who drinks beer.
The question is: Who owns the fish?
The solution
House | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Nationality | Norwegian | Spanish | Japanese | Ukrainian | British |
Color | Yellow | Blue | Ivory | Green | Red |
Pet | Horse | Dog | Fox | Fish | Snails |
Beverage | Coffee | Orange Juice | Milk | Tea | Beer |
Cigars | “Kool” | “Lucky Strike” | “Parliament” | “Chesterfield” | “Old Gold” |
Comments
Cool test!
Thanks for sharing.
I was required to do this test in a German outsourcing company, but in its Barcelona's branch office.
Finally, I didn't get the job. The job interview lasted 2 hours! Because firstly the two employers was doing me and a girl (we were two candidates) the typical questions about experience, educations, languages, computer skills, then they gave us this test and at the end they also gave us an Accounting test! The salary: 15.000 € gross annual. So awful!
Last week I had to do this test at a job interview. The post: Administrative Accounting Assistant.