Read each line aloud without making any mistakes. If you make a mistake you MUST start again without going any further.

This is this puzzle
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This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is someone puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is about puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

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Answer: Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line from the top. 

Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?

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Answer: 
We have to be careful what we are adding together.

Originally, they paid £30, they each received back £1, they now have only paid £27. Of this £27, £25 went to the manager for the room and £2 went to the bellboy.

Puzzle 1

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks chocolate.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

Answer: 
This puzzle is usually attributed to Einstein, who may or may not have written it.

The German owns the fish and the table below details the full answer:

Nationality: Norweg   Dane    Brit       German   Swede
Colour     : Yellow   Blue    Red        Green    White
Beverage   : water    tea     milk       coffee   chocolate
Smokes     : Dunhill  Blend   Pall Mall  Prince   Blue Master
Pet        : cats     horses  birds      fish     dogs