Einstein's Riddle
12 May 2007 2:06:46 UTC
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I came across a riddle that supposedly Albert Einstein wrote early in the last century and claimed that 98% of the world population would not be able to solve it.
It doesn't use word play, just logic. If you believe you have the answer, post your answer in BBCode tagged to size 2 so it won't spoil it for others.
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1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
3. Each homeowner drinks a different kind of beverage, smoke different brands of cigarettes and keeps a different pet.
4. The Brit lives in a red house.
5. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
6. The Dane drinks tea.
7. The green house is next to, and on the left of the white house.
8. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
9. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
10. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
11. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
12. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
13. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
14. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
15. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
16. The German smokes Prince.
17. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
18. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Who owns the fish?
Einstein's Riddle
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Greetings:
I will give it a shot.
I believe it is the "German' who has the Fish. he/she lives in the fourth house which is green, drinks coffee, smokes Prince.
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot. - Aldo Leopold
RE: Greetings: I will
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Ding, ding, ding!!! Rod solved it! Good work!
Anyone else?
I am not familiar with
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I am not familiar with bbcodes so I may have to edit this a time or two.
I have the german in the green house watching his fish while drinking coffee and smoking his pipe full of prince.
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Alright! That's two now that figured it out. Good work Frozenoak!
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I had to do a little guess and check so it wasn't pure logic for me. Is that cheating?
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Well, if you got it right the first time I wouldn't call it cheating. As long as anyone doesn't throw the game by posting the answer in regular sized font, it's all good. I'm pleased if anyone enjoys the game.
I've known the answer but
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I've known the answer
but how to post my answer in BBCode?
Hello everyone!I'm Zhang Chi from China.I am 16 and I am a middle school student.And I love science. I want to be a scientist in the future!
RE: I've known the answer
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You made the assumption that the first house is furthest to de left. If you make the assumption that the first house is furthest to de right, then it’s the inhabitant of the house furthest to the left, who is ether German or Britt.
Then you're really interested in a subject, there is no way to avoid it. You have to read the Manual.
Here's what I came up
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Here's what I came up with:
The Norwegian lives in the first house, which is yellow, and he smokes Dunhill, drinks water, and has cats for pets.
Next is the Dane, living in a blue house, smoking Blends, drinking tea, and he evidently has a stable (for his horses).
Then comes the Brit, in a red house, smoking Pall Mall, drinking milk, and he has birds for pets.
The fourth house is green, owned by the German who smokes Prince, drinks coffee, and he's the guy with the fish.
In the last house, a white one, lives the Swede, who smokes Blue Master, drinks beer, and has dogs.