After you place a check in a grid row, what can you do?

Cross out the rest of that row and column

Pet Logic Puzzles Quiz: Who Owns the Cat and Other Grids

This pet logic puzzles quiz gives you short who-owns-which-animal problems to solve with careful thinking. Play an interactive set of 10 questions on reading clues, marking a grid, ruling out options, house order, either-or clues and the famous Einstein-style question of who owns the fish.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Grid
In a logic grid, what does an X usually mean?
Check
After you place a check in a grid row, what can you do?
Cat
Ana, Ben and Cara own a cat, a dog and a fish. Ana is allergic to fur and Ben walks his pet daily. Who owns the cat?
Dog
Dan, Eve and Finn own a dog, a bird and a cat. Dan does not own the dog. Eve owns the dog or the bird. Finn owns the bird. Who owns the dog?
Snake
Mia's pet barks, Leo's pet has scales and Zoe's pet purrs. Who owns the snake?
House
Three houses in a row hold a hamster, a parrot and a rabbit. The hamster is in house 1 and the parrot is left of the rabbit. Where is the rabbit?
Turtle
Gus, Hal, Ivy and Jo each own one pet, and one owns a turtle. Gus, Hal and Ivy do not. Who owns the turtle?
Middle
The cat owner lives in the middle of three houses and the goldfish owner lives next door. Where can the goldfish owner not live?
Guess
If testing a guess leads to a contradiction, what do you learn?
Fish
In the famous Einstein riddle, who owns the fish?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: In a logic grid, what does an X usually mean?
Answer: That pairing is impossible
A check mark shows a match.
Q2: After you place a check in a grid row, what can you do?
Answer: Cross out the rest of that row and column
Each item matches only once.
Q3: Ana, Ben and Cara own a cat, a dog and a fish. Ana is allergic to fur and Ben walks his pet daily. Who owns the cat?
Answer: Cara
Ana has the fish and Ben the dog.
Q4: Dan, Eve and Finn own a dog, a bird and a cat. Dan does not own the dog. Eve owns the dog or the bird. Finn owns the bird. Who owns the dog?
Answer: Eve
Finn has the bird, so Eve must have the dog.
Q5: Mia's pet barks, Leo's pet has scales and Zoe's pet purrs. Who owns the snake?
Answer: Leo
Scales point to the snake.
Q6: Three houses in a row hold a hamster, a parrot and a rabbit. The hamster is in house 1 and the parrot is left of the rabbit. Where is the rabbit?
Answer: House 3
The parrot must be in house 2.
Q7: Gus, Hal, Ivy and Jo each own one pet, and one owns a turtle. Gus, Hal and Ivy do not. Who owns the turtle?
Answer: Jo
Only Jo remains.
Q8: The cat owner lives in the middle of three houses and the goldfish owner lives next door. Where can the goldfish owner not live?
Answer: The middle house
The middle is taken by the cat owner.
Q9: If testing a guess leads to a contradiction, what do you learn?
Answer: The guess was wrong
You can cross it out.
Q10: In the famous Einstein riddle, who owns the fish?
Answer: The German
It is a classic five-house puzzle.

Pet Logic Puzzles Quiz – Who Owns the Cat and Other Grids

Pet logic puzzles give you owners, animals and a few clues, and you must work out who owns which pet. Each owner usually has exactly one pet, so every clue removes some possibilities.

A logic grid helps track your work: mark X when a pairing is impossible and a check when it is certain. Once you place a check, every other box in that row and column can be crossed out.

Harder puzzles add house order, next-to clues and either-or statements. The famous Einstein riddle asks who owns the fish across five houses, and solving it takes patience and careful notes.

What This Quiz Teaches

Puzzle fans will enjoy these questions.

How to read clues
How to use a grid
How to rule out options
How order clues work
How to test a guess

Did You Know?

Logic puzzles train careful step-by-step thinking.
Many puzzle magazines print grid puzzles each month.
Reading every clue twice helps avoid mistakes.
Negative clues are often the most useful.
There is no proof that Einstein wrote the zebra puzzle.