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Now that the only spot in the grid without a cigar and a drink is in the fifth column,
現在只剩下一棟房子的主人還不知道喝什么飲料，抽什么雪茄，也就是第五棟房子，
that must be the home of the person in clue twelve.
這就肯定是線索十二里的人的家了。
And since this leaves only the second house without a drink, the tea-drinking Dane must live there.
只有第二棟房子的主人還不知道喝什么飲料，喝茶的丹麥人肯定住在這兒。
The fourth house is now the only one missing a nationality and a cigar brand,
第四棟房子是唯一一棟不知道國籍和雪茄牌子的房子了
so the Prince-smoking German from clue thirteen must live there.
所以，根據線索十三，抽Pinrce雪茄的德國人肯定住在這里。
Through elimination, you can conclude that the Brit smokes Pall Mall and the Swede lives in the fifth house,
通過排除法，你可以總結英國人抽Pall Mall，并且瑞典人住在第五棟房子里，
while clue six and clue two tell you that these two have a bird and a dog, respectively.
線索二和六告訴你這兩個人分別養鳥和狗。
Clue ten tells you that the cat owner lives next to the Blend-smoking Dane, putting him in the first house.
線索十告訴你養貓的人是抽Blend的丹麥人的鄰居也就是第一棟房子里。
Now with only one spot left on the grid, you know that the German in the green-walled house must be the culprit.
現在表格里只有一個空白位置，你就能知道綠墻房子里的德國人是罪魁禍首。
You and the police burst into the house, catching the thief fish-handed.
你和警察沖進屋內，抓住盜魚的小偷。
While that explanation was straightforward, solving puzzles like this often involves false starts and dead ends.
雖然這個解釋簡單明了，解開這樣的謎題通常會開頭不妙或者碰上死路。
Part of the trick is to use the process of elimination and lots of trial and error to hone in on the right pieces,
常用的技巧就是排除法和多次嘗試去找到正確的方向，
and the more logic puzzles you solve,
解開的謎題越多，
the better your intuition will be for when and where there's enough information to make your deductions.
你的直覺就會更加敏銳，你就知道如何使用已知信息推斷。
And did young Einstein really write this puzzle? Probably not.
真的是年輕的愛因斯坦自己寫下這個謎題嗎？應該不是。
There's no evidence he did, and some of the brands mentioned are too recent.
沒有證據指明是他寫的，而且有些雪茄牌子是近代的。
But the logic here is not so different from what you'd use to solve equations with multiple variables,
但是這里使用的邏輯性和你解多元方程時的邏輯沒有什么不同，
even those describing the nature of the universe.
甚至和描述宇宙中的自然現象是一樣的。
