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  • Einstein's Riddle

    Many of you are nerds, so some of you have probably seen this one before:

    It's purported by Einstein that 98% of the world's population could not figure out this logic problem. Try your hand at it.

    There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keep a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.

    Clues:

    * The Brit lives in the red house.
    * The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
    * The Dane drinks tea.
    * The green house is just to the left of the white house.
    * The green house's owner drinks coffee.
    * The person who smokes Pall Malls raises 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 a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
    * The owner who smokes Bluemasters also 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.

    Who owns the fish?


    Note: Rather than just posting the final answer, post the complete puzzle answer. Also, if you're trying to figure this out, don't read anyone's posts first.

    Yes, it is possible, yes it is difficult. This may take awhile to figure out.

  • #2
    Didn't we have a thread with this before?
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    • #3
      OK, My best guess

      House#1
      Norwegian, Dunhill, Cats, Yellow, Water
      House#2
      Dane,Blends,Horse,Blue,Tea
      House#3
      Brit,Pall Malls,Birds,Red,Milk
      House#4
      German,Prince,Fish,Green,Coffee
      House#5
      Swede, Bluemasters,Dogs,White,Beer
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      • #4
        Well done!

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        • #5
          Y'know they have entire books of logic puzzles. They're quite popular, really, and this is just a typical example. Not even, really, the hardest I've seen. Some are more obtuse, with wording that throws you off and the need to make a good diagram.
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          • #6
            .. but how many puzzles are made by Einstein?
            This was my first time, actually taking the time to attempt one
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            • #7
              Do you mean without paper and pen?

              cause I'm quite sure that a lot more than 2% of the people can solve this with paper and pen.

              I could only go as far as maybe less than 1/3 of the way to solving before forgetting what my first conclusions were (not a very good memory)

              when I started writing down it was not hard to solve...
              Last edited by NetSnake; 17 January 2008, 09:57.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Tjalfe View Post
                .. but how many puzzles are made by Einstein? :
                None that we know of:

                The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                I'm the least you could do
                If only life were as easy as you
                I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                If only life were as easy as you
                I would still get screwed

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