Four houses in a row, who owns the fish?
Four houses stand in a row, numbered 1 to 4 from left to right. Each has a different colour (red, blue, green, white), a resident of a different nationality (English, Spanish, Japanese, Norwegian) and a different pet (dog, cat, bird, fish).
- The Norwegian lives in house 1.
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
- The green house is immediately to the right of the white house.
- The Englishman lives in the green house.
- The Spaniard owns the dog.
- The cat lives in the blue house.
- The Japanese lives next to the bird's owner.
Who owns the fish? Fill in the whole table.
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Clues 1 and 2 fix the blue house. Clue 3 then has only one place to go. Colours fall first, then nationalities, then pets.
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