Einstein's Riddle (It's a good one!).

J

Jazz_Fascist

First time out of the vault
It has been proved that only 2% of the world population can only solve this riddle that Albert Einstein made, take a look at it:

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain type of pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The question is: "Who owns the fish?"

Hints:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Sweed 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 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 horses lives next to the one 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.

Good Luck, because I didn't even get it yet.
 
I used to do these puzzles all the time in grade school, but they were of course

Puzzles like this are incredibly easy when you work out a logic table, assign each space a coordinate, and then plot out where each possible condition (Hint) can go.

Take it one step further and build upon those conditions into conditions for others to tie into, but this one breaks some of that method, but it's still possible to narrow it down. In the conditions, separate the position declaring (Norwegian = 1st, center = milk) into one group, then do the relationship declaring ones into another group (Brit = Red, Swede = Dogs, etc.), and then the position-relative ones (Blends = next to cats, Horse = next to smokes Dunhill) in another. In some of the simpler ones, you can also make up another list with relationship or "x is not next to y".

After you do all that, the puzzle becomes quite easy to figure out, versus trial and error plotting.

One of my favorites is in a 12x12 grid, similar to this one, but is a tricky bastard. Of course, it was based upon this one.

Hmmm, I might try my hand at making a couple.

I'll post the answer to Einstein's Puzzle in another thread.
 
ummm, this is my solution. i didn't really check it, so please please please don't make fun of me if it's wrong :oops:
ok, here goes:

Norwegian lives in the first, yellow house, smokes Dunhill, has a cat and drinks water.
Dane lives in the 2nd, blue house, smokes blends, has a horse and drinks tea.
Brit lives in the 3rd, red house, smokes Pall Mall, has a bird and drinks milk.
German lives in the 4th, green house, smokes Prince and drinks coffee. he must be the guy with the fish.
finally, Sweed lives in the 5th, white house, smokes Bluemasters, has a dog and drinks beer.

okay, now you can throw tomatoes on me... :oops:
 
you missed the point and that why just 2% of the population get it right.
The Question is who ows the fish , nothing else if you answer anything else than the german, you have it wrong.

trick question
 
uhhh...what do you mean??? my opinion is that german owns the fish and it seems to make logical sense. if the answer is wrong, can somebody please post the correct answer?
 
Ugly John said:
you missed the point and that why just 2% of the population get it right.
The Question is who ows the fish , nothing else if you answer anything else than the german, you have it wrong.

trick question
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Hehehe, gave it away. :P

I had posted the "answer" when I was expecting someone to say "The German?" in a reply, to which I could say that they got it precisely correct.

Too many give too much information. More like 90% of people, if they spent enough time, would work out the riddle, but then forget the question, which is the point of the riddle. To remember the questions asked while you work on the answer.
 
Rosh:
Since i'm a manager and i know that you do your researches well.
So I did not bother to make the riddle myself, i took your answer as the good one and made it mine. :)
 
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