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From: steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Zebra puzzle
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"B. Pym" <Nobody447095@here-nor-there.org> writes:

> Rosetta: Zebra puzzle
>
< > There are five houses.
< > The English man lives in the red house.
< > The Swede has a dog.
< > The Dane drinks tea.
< > The green house is immediately to the left of the white house.
< > They drink coffee in the green house.
< > The man who smokes Pall Mall has birds.
< > In the yellow house they smoke Dunhill.
< > In the middle house they drink milk.
< > The Norwegian lives in the first house.
< > The man who smokes Blend lives in the house next to the house with cats.
< > In a house next to the house where they have a horse, they smoke Dunhill.
< > The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
< > The German smokes Prince.
< > The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
< > They drink water in a house next to the house where they smoke Blend. 
< > 
< > 
< > The question is, who owns the zebra? 
< > 
< > Additionally, list the solution for all the houses.
< > Optionally, show the solution is unique.
>


norvig covers this in his book; sorry for the wrong tank....