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Progress stays on this device.
Your worksheet
Put the pieces together
Choose answers or rule out possibilities in Notes. Houses 1–5 run from left to right.
The Brit lives in the red house.
Start with a clue that names a house directly. Nothing is filled in for you.
One step at a time
A little help with the logic
Compare all five houses
This overview follows your entries. On a phone, scroll within the table to compare neighboring houses.
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How to play
Solve it with logic
Five houses stand in a row. Each has a different color, nationality, drink, cigar brand, and pet. Use the fifteen clues to find the owner of the fish. This is the fish version of the puzzle often called Einstein’s Riddle or the Zebra Puzzle.
Getting started
Look for clues that give an exact house: the Norwegian lives in the first house, and the person in the center house drinks milk. Enter what a clue tells you, then combine it with another clue.
Choose a clue from the list or use its arrows to keep it above your worksheet. On a phone, the five house buttons switch between houses. On a larger screen, you can see all five together. The comparison table gives you an overview at any size.
Answers, elimination notes, and checks
Use each dropdown for a tentative answer. Open Notes for that attribute to cross out values you think are impossible; press a crossed-out value again to restore it. A crossed-out value is your deduction, not an automatic fact. Clear an answer before excluding that same value.
Each value can appear only once in its category. Check reasoning looks for contradictions with the clues and your notes. An unfinished worksheet without a conflict is not proof that every entry is correct. Undo and Redo help you try an idea and revisit it.
Hints, saving, and printing
Help me reason starts with a nudge. Show the deduction explains one step; Apply this deduction changes your worksheet only when you choose it. The hint system may ask you to fix conflicting entries or notes first.
Your answers, notes, and reviewed clues save on this device when browser storage is available. Print produces a worksheet with all five houses and the clues. Start over asks before clearing your work, and you can undo it during this session.
Reveal the complete solution
This fills every answer and ends the deduction challenge. It asks for confirmation first, and Undo lets you return to your own work.
Einstein’s Riddle
Who keeps the fish? Houses are numbered from left to right. Each value appears once in its category.
| Attribute | House 1 | House 2 | House 3 | House 4 | House 5 |
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The fifteen clues
Zero Star Games · zerostargames.com/games/einsteins-riddle/
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