SOMEONE HAS STOLEN an exotic fish from the local aquarium.

(Bear with us.)

So, you’re a detective trying to find the robber, who you know is holed up in one of five houses, standing in a row, that are painted in five different colours.

One person of a different nationality lives in each house, and all five homeowners drink a different type of beverage, smoke a different cigar brand and own a different kind of pet.

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Here are the other clues:

• The British person lives in the red house.
• The Swedish person keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
• The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
• The owner who smokes Pall Mall cigars rears birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The owner living in the centre house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
• The German person smokes Prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.

How do you find the robber without knocking on the wrong house? Ted-Ed explains. 

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