Three: Gritters Brain Box Tough Questions section.
A quite difficult brainteaser below. No prizes, but quite a complex problems for you to wile away a few hours with when you can't get out on the golf course.
The problem of the Golfer and his car
This is a lengthy, difficult though solvable puzzle and contains no trickery or misleading clues.
It is in three parts, the situation, the clues, the question.
a) The situation is:
1.There are five adjacent houses in a street.
Each house is a different colour (The five colours are, not in any particular order, White, Blue, Red, Green and yellow)
2. In each house lives just one person, each with a different nationality. (The nationalities are, not in any particular order, British, Swedish, German, Norwegian and Danish)
3.The five owners each drink a certain beverage
These are, not in any particular order, Coffee, tea, milk, water and beer.
4. They each smoke a particular brand of cigarette
These are, not in any particular order, Marlborough, Dunhill, Cheroots, Bensons and Sovereigns
5. They each keep a pet
These are, not in any particular order, Dog, cat, horse, bird, fish
6. They each drive a different make of car
These are, again in no particular order, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Saab and Rover
7. They each play a sport or game
These are, again in no specific order, Golf, Tennis, Snooker, Bridge and Squash.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand, drink the same beverage, drive the same car or play the same sport.
b) These are the Clues:
The British man lives in a red house
The man who plays squash lives in an end house
The Swede keeps dogs as pets
The Danish person drinks tea
The green house is on the left of the white house
The green house owner drinks coffee
The snooker player drives an Audi, he parks it next to a Rover
The dog owner does not drive a BMW
The Marlborough smoker rears birds and plays bridge
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
The man living in the centre house drinks milk
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who smokes Sovereign lives next door to cats
The man who keeps a horse lives next to the Dunhill smoker
The beer drinker smokes Bensons
The German man smokes Cheroots
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
The man who smokes Sovereign lives next to the man who drinks water
The man who keeps fish enjoys a sport that involves hitting a moving ball and sometimes he caddies for his next door neighbour
The Rover and the Mercedes are usually parked next to each other as their owners are neighbours.
c) The question is which car does the golfer drive?
