Mr-X Posted November 14, 2002 #1 Share Posted November 14, 2002 EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE This is solvable……..I swear 1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. 2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. 3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage. The question is “Who owns the fish?’ Facts: The Brit lives in the red house The Swede keeps dogs as pets. The Dane drinks tea. The green house is on the left of the white house. The green house’s owner drinks coffee. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. The man living in the center house drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer. The German smokes Prince. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water. Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. It can be done! Be part of the 2% that COULD. Yellow Blue Red Green White House ___________________________________________ Nationality ___________________________________________ Beverage ___________________________________________ Cigar ___________________________________________ Pet You will have to print this out and use paper to work it out. Draw a table similar to the one above but add in the lines. House should be on top of nationality by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kismit Posted November 14, 2002 #2 Share Posted November 14, 2002 The German owns the fish ................. Too easy .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-X Posted November 14, 2002 Author #3 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Kismit, cam you type up the table for me so i can see how you got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kismit Posted November 14, 2002 #4 Share Posted November 14, 2002 The Norwegian lives in theyellow house in position number 1 he drinks water , he smokes Dunhill and keeps cats. The Dane lives in the blue house drinks tea , smokes blends and keeps a horse . The brit lives in the red house drinks milk , smokes Pall Mall and keeps Birds. Now either the german or the swede could live in the final houses so Ill just do it this way . The swede lives in the green house , drinks beer , smokes bluemaster and keeps dogs. Which leaves the German who lives in the white hous drinks coffee , smokes prince , and has the only unclaimed pet the FISH . I tried to type the table in originally but it got all jumbled once i submited it. So am I right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-X Posted November 14, 2002 Author #5 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Dont know couldnt get it myself. If you can post the table that would be great :s1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted November 14, 2002 #6 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Mr-X, Nice find - certainly got me thinking. Kismit, I ended up with the same result as you so I think it must be right. Either that or we've both made exactly the same mistakes. :s03 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted November 14, 2002 #7 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Here's a link to a complete step-by-step solution : http://www.greylabyrinth.com/Puzzles/answer084.htm Looks like it was the German who owned the fish after all. :mrgreen: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kismit Posted November 15, 2002 #8 Share Posted November 15, 2002 Thanx for the link Saruman, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kismit Posted November 15, 2002 #9 Share Posted November 15, 2002 Yup that's what I got . I don't think you really have to be in the top 2%. After all last time I was tested I was only in the top 3% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-X Posted November 15, 2002 Author #10 Share Posted November 15, 2002 Thx Saruman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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