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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:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
3. The Spanish keeps a dog as pet.
4. The Japanese smokes “Parliament”.
5. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
6. The owner who keeps the horse smokes “Kool”.
7. The neighbor of who has a fox smokes “Chesterfield”.
8. The owner who rears snails smokes “Old Gold”.
9. The man who drinks orange juice smokes “Lucky Strike”.
10. The green house is on the right of the ivory-coloured house.
11. The owner of the yellow house smokes ”Kool”.
12. The yellow house's owner drinks coffee.
13. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
14. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
15. The man who smokes “Chesterfield” has a neighbor who drinks beer.

The question is: Who owns the fish?

The solution