Who owns the Zebra? - solution [Who owns the fish?]

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 3^rd 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 4^th house is Green and the 3^rd 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. 

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