Choroba's Version of the Zebra puzzle was very easy.

For real "fun" try to solve this one with regexes

The following version of the puzzle appeared in Life International in 1962:

• There are five houses.
• The Englishman lives in the red house.
• The Spaniard owns the dog.
• Coffee is drunk in the green house.
• The Ukrainian drinks tea.
• The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
• The Old Gold smoker owns snails.
• Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
• Milk is drunk in the middle house.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox.
• Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
• The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice.
• The Japanese smokes Parliaments.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

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Now, who drinks water? Who owns the zebra?

In the interest of clarity, it must be added that each of the five houses is painted a different color, and their inhabitants are of different national extractions, own different pets, drink different beverages and smoke different brands of American cigarets sic. One other thing: in statement 6, right means your right.

— Life International, December 17, 1962

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At some point you will need a branch and bound algorithm here, maybe by exploiting the backtracking of the regex engine.

Good fun! ;)

Extra motivation: you can add your potential regex solution to Rosetta code then.

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