I will just try to put
forward my justification about the solution in various point of views as
follows..
First of all, the
solution for the question is given below..
The first simple
argument is..
Ø It
was considered only five houses. Whether there are other houses or not is not
our concern.
Ø Only
the five houses are examined. And “next” means here the soonest occasion after
the present. And it needn’t to be the immediately right place from the present.
*Moreover next doesn’t
say anything about left or right.
Ø The
reason is because, in Statement 6, it was stated separately the word
“immediately to the right”.
Thus, it permits you to consider the first
house as the house next to the fifth house.
Hence the given
solution satisfies all the 15 descriptive statements.
Away from this, there
are also other ways of viewing this problem.
Ø It
was never mentioned anything about the order in which the houses should be
arranged. It could be in any order.
Ø But
the statement 9 states that there should be a middle house. Middle is the place
where if you start to count symmetrically, there won’t be any house left. It
means you can pair simultaneously two houses from both directions.
In dictionary meaning
it is equivalent to say - the point or position at an equal distance from the
sides, edges, or ends of something.
It rules out many
possible orders but not every order. There is still something left to argue.
One of them is a circular order (you can choose X order – one at center and
four at the corners. But I choose circular).
You may ask what the
middle term in the circular order. But that depends on the way you choose to
start the counting. If you start like this,
You can choose 3rd
house as the middle.
But in circular order,
you can choose any one of them as the middle. There is nothing wrong with that.
But it just should satisfy statement 10 i.e. you should start with Norwegian’s
house.
And also in some other
way, if you choose to peck the order as follows,
You can see Green house
is to the left of the ivory house. (From the answer it is known that the 4th
house is Green and the 3rd is ivory). But it is against the comment
6, where Green should be on the immediate right of ivory.
But we just don’t care
about those possibilities since we just need one single solution fulfills the
given specifications.
Whether there are
more than one solution exists or not is not a big deal. It would just be some
other approach.
It may give new answers
or it could go wrong!‼
Nevertheless from this
solution we can just conclude that there are other possible answers for this
puzzle. And this puzzle doesn’t have a unique solution.
Thus we can prove there
may be more than one solution for the puzzle, Who own the Zebra?
In fact, there are many other solutions in circular order.
Solution:2
Solution:3
