Einstein's riddle

Liz · Forum Member Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 51

I got this in an email, and can't figure it out. Maybe someone here can help.

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This is Einstein's famous riddle, that he stated only 2% of the World's Population could solve (well, back then, anyways). Very Happy

It's a fun way to work your brain and waste 40 minutes or so of your time at work Here's the riddle:

In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors. In each house lives a person of different nationality: a Brit, a Swede, a Norwegian, a German and a Dane, not in this particular order. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

The question is: who owns the fish?

Necessary clues:

1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

FHI Windows · Site Admin Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 198

I remember this one from 8th grade......hopefully I can still solve it.

musicworld1 · Forum Member Joined: 16 Jun 2010 Posts: 26

that is great i hope you can do this