Let's figure out how to distribute the remaining beverages — beer
and water. Direct attempt to use related hints:
12.
The owner who smokes
Blue Master
drinks
beer.
15.
The man who smokes
blend
has a
neighbor
who drinks
water.
doesn't look promising so far. However, it is possible to notice that
Hint 15 can be legitimately reversed to a more useful
statement:
15'
The man who drinks
water
has a
neighbor
who smokes
blend.
This makes it impossible for the owner of the fifth house to drink
water (his only neighbor smokes Prince), leaving him with the only choice
— to drink beer.
The owner of the first house is left with the only remaining
possibility — to drink water.
The cigar preference of the owner of the fifth house becomes
now obvious, since: