AL Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Some of you may have seen this before, but for those who haven't this is supposedly a puzzle written by Einstein, and he supposedly predicted that 98% of people wouldn't be able to figure it out. I seriously doubt that Einstein is the actual author of this puzzle, and I expect Snopes.com to debunk this claim someday, but nevertheless the puzzle is a decent one, so here goes: There are 5 houses in five different colors.In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These 5 owners drink a certain drink, smoke a certain brand of tobacco and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same tobacco, or drink the same drink. The question is: Who owns the fish? Hints: 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 owner drinks coffee The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill The man living in the house right in the center 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 Bluemaster drinks juice The German smokes Prince The Norwegian lives next to the blue house The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 81606 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL Posted October 24, 2004 Author Share Posted October 24, 2004 Whoops, sorry. I did a search for Einstein's Puzzle and nothing turned up, so I assumed it had never been posted before. I guess you can delete this thread. Edit: Wait, now I remember I didn't search at all. I usually search before creating a new thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1dermon Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 its the german. that took me like...an hour. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mkfl Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 Thanks for the puzzle. It was fun. Figured out that it was the German after about 45 minutes. The puzzle does require two assumptions that were not explicitly mentioned: 1. the houses are aligned in a horizontal row 2. the left-most house is the first house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solaris Posted November 14, 2004 Share Posted November 14, 2004 i did this test in romanian some weeks ago. it was the german (solved it in 8 minutes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psi20 Posted November 15, 2004 Share Posted November 15, 2004 Yeah, I got the German too. I was thinking to myself while I was doing the puzzle, "Shoot, green is left of white? What if Einstein was walking around the houses and saw the the backsides of the houses (meaning viewed from the front side would be the opposite)? That would screw me up!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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