Last year, I solved the following analytical reasoning problem by hand. Post learning Prolog, I think this is a good problem to solve using a computer! I had a interesting experience doing so.
Problem:
Problem:
Facts:
1: There are 5 villas in 5 different colors
2: In each villa lives a person with a different nationality.
3: These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
4: No owner has the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.
Hints:
1: The British lives in a red villa.
2: The Swede keeps dogs as pets
3: The Dane drinks tea
4: The green villa is on the left of the white villa (it also means they are next door to each other)
5: The green villa owner drinks coffee
6: The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7: The owner of the yellow villa smokes Dunhill
8: The man living in the villa right in the center drinks milk
9: The Norwegian lives in the first villa
10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats
11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13: The German smokes Prince
14: The Norwegian lives next to the blue villa
15: The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
The question is: who keeps the fish?
Prolog Solution:
The following is what i could come up with after serval iterations through code.
Answer to Puzzle:
Following is the output of the prolog program.
1,norwegian,yellow,water,dunhill,cat
2,dane,blue,tea,blend,horse
3,british,red,milk,pallmall,birds
4,german,green,coffee,prince,fish
5,swede,white,beer,bluemaster,dog
Hence the answer is German keeps the fish.
