from itertools import permutations class Number:elems= "One Two Three Four Five".split() class Color: elems= "Red Green Blue White Yellow".split() class Drink: elems= "Milk Coffee Water Beer Tea".split() class Smoke: elems= "PallMall Dunhill Blend BlueMaster Prince".split() class Pet: elems= "Dog Cat Zebra Horse Bird".split() class Nation:elems= "British Swedish Danish Norvegian German".split() for c in (Number, Color, Drink, Smoke, Pet, Nation): for i, e in enumerate(c.elems): exec "%s.%s = %d" % (c.__name__, e, i) def show_row(t, data): print "%6s: %12s%12s%12s%12s%12s" % ( t.__name__, t.elems[data[0]], t.elems[data[1]], t.elems[data[2]], t.elems[data[3]], t.elems[data[4]]) def main(): perms = list(permutations(range(5))) for number in perms: if number[Nation.Norvegian] == Number.One: # Constraint 10 for color in perms: if color[Nation.British] == Color.Red: # Constraint 2 if number[color.index(Color.Blue)] == Number.Two: # Constraint 15+10 if number[color.index(Color.White)] - number[color.index(Color.Green)] == 1: # Constraint 5 for drink in perms: if drink[Nation.Danish] == Drink.Tea: # Constraint 4 if drink[color.index(Color.Green)] == Drink.Coffee: # Constraint 6 if drink[number.index(Number.Three)] == Drink.Milk: # Constraint 9 for smoke in perms: if smoke[Nation.German] == Smoke.Prince: # Constraint 14 if drink[smoke.index(Smoke.BlueMaster)] == Drink.Beer: # Constraint 13 if smoke[color.index(Color.Yellow)] == Smoke.Dunhill: # Constraint 8 if number[smoke.index(Smoke.Blend)] - number[drink.index(Drink.Water)] in (1, -1): # Constraint 16 for pet in perms: if pet[Nation.Swedish] == Pet.Dog: # Constraint 3 if pet[smoke.index(Smoke.PallMall)] == Pet.Bird: # Constraint 7 if number[pet.index(Pet.Horse)] - number[smoke.index(Smoke.Dunhill)] in (1, -1): # Constraint 12 if number[smoke.index(Smoke.Blend)] - number[pet.index(Pet.Cat)] in (1, -1): # Constraint 11 print "Found a solution:" show_row(Nation, range(5)) show_row(Number, number) show_row(Color, color) show_row(Drink, drink) show_row(Smoke, smoke) show_row(Pet, pet) print main()