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Einstein's five houses

Five houses in a row, each a different color. Each house has a different nationality, pet, drink, and cigarette brand. Classic clues (“immediately to the right” means to your right):

  1. The Englishman lives in the red house.
  2. The Spaniard owns the dog.
  3. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
  4. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
  5. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
  6. The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
  7. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
  8. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The Chesterfield smoker lives next to the fox owner.
  11. Kools are smoked next to the horse.
  12. The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
  13. The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

(Each category uses all five values exactly once.)

Who drinks water? Who owns the zebra?

See Wikipedia: Zebra Puzzle (full clues and solution table).