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Who Ownes the Fish?

In the last century, Einstein created the following brain-teaser. He claimed that 98% of all people on earth were not able to solve it.

Have fun!

Question: Who Ownes the Fish????

Preconditions:
01. There are five homes, each in a different color
02. In each home lives a person with a different nationality
03. Each person favors a particular beverage, smokes a particular cigar brand, and ownes a particular pet
04. NONE of the five persons driks the same beverage, smokes the same brand or owned the same pet as her neighbour

The clues:
01. The Briton lives in the red house
02. The Swede owns a dog
03. The Dane driks tea
04. The green house is direcly to the left of the white house
05. The owner of the green home likes coffee
06. The person, who smokes Pall Mall, ownes a bird
07. The person, who lives in the middle home, drinks milk
08. The owner of the yellow home somokes Dunhill
09. The Norwegian lives in the first home
10. The Marlboro-smoker lives next to the person, who ows a cat
11. The person, who ownes a horse, lives next to the person, who smokes Dunhill
12. The Winfield-smoker drinks beer
13. The Norwegian lives next to the blue home
14. The German smokes Rothmanns
15. The Marlboro smoker has a neighbour, who driks water

Some Statistics (since June 02):

Until now 2812 Persons have participated in the Fishtest.
From that, 1959 had the correct answer, that is 69.7 Percent.
The average time for the correct answer is 37.8 Minutes.

Result:

The Dane ownes the fish
The Swede ownes the fish
The Norwegian ownes the fish
The Brite ownes the fish
The German ownes the fish

Time you needed (please be honest):

(10 .. 180 Minutes)

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