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EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE

Well a good mate of mine Timmy Walter sent me this email, it is a toughie but a goodie. Basically I have a challenge for you, The first person who can email me after two hour so at least 6:10pm AEST 1st May will get a free copy of Expression web that i have on my desk. Tell me who owns the Fish?

My email address is fletch@microsoft.com

I say after 6:10 because it takes a while to figure out. If you just go and search for it you are a loser and i don't really want to know.

EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE

 

This is solvable……..I swear

 

  1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

 

  1. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

 

  1. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

 

The question is "Who owns the fish?'

 

Facts:

 

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's owner drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears 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 the horse lives next to the man 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.

 

Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it.

 

It can be done! Be part of the 2% that COULD.

 

 

     

House 

     

Nationality 

     

Beverage 

     

Cigar 

     

Pet 

 

You will have to print this out and use paper to work it out.

 

 

 

Posted: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:13 PM by ausdev

Comments

Simon Freiberg said:

Ze german!

# May 1, 2007 4:07 AM

Vivek said:

This is an old one ... if the  nationalities have not been changed from the original ... it the german for sure !!!!

# May 1, 2007 5:52 AM

Rishi said:

Color - Yellow Blue Red Green White

Nationality- Norwegian Dane Brit Gernman Swede

Drinks - water Tea Milk Coffee Beer

Smokes - Dunhill Blends Pall Mall Prince Blue master

Pet - cats Horse Birds Fish Dogs

# May 1, 2007 6:35 AM

Roxs said:

German in the green house, that drinks coffee, and smokes Prince.

# May 1, 2007 6:23 PM

mailsuite@gmail.com said:

You can solve it with using excel without printing the grid :-)

House 1 2 3 4 5

Colour Yellow Blue Red Green White

Nationality Norway DANE Britain GERMAN SWEDE

Beverage WATER TEA Milk Coffee BEER

Cigar Dunhill BLENDS PALLMALL PRINCE BLUEMASTER

Pet CAT Horse BIRD FISH DOG

# May 1, 2007 11:45 PM

Matt Hamilton said:

I'm just impressed that Einstein "wrote this riddle this century"! ;)

# May 2, 2007 1:01 AM

Steve said:

Yeh I also used Excel and found it much easier to work out then on paper, in fact when I was on paper I was starting to come to the humilating realization that I may be in the 98%.  Imagine if Einstein had had Excel ?  (hang on I am copyrighting that as some ponytailed MS marketing guru might take that idea).  It's bad enough that I was thinking of that rediculous FBI show on chanel 10 (Australian TV chanel) the whole time I was working this out, I can't think of it's name right now ;).    

PS the German in the green house drinking the coffee, smoking the Prince is with the Fish.  but you already new that.

# May 7, 2007 11:55 PM

Richard said:

Once I month I buy a book of "crosswords and other riddles" (not the actual title) and it has a dozen or more of such logic riddles. The complexity increases as more pieces of logic are left out and as the size of the grid increases and esecially as the number of dimensions increases. This one was fairly involved compared to others I have seen. If Einstein really said that 98% of the world could not solve it, perhaps it shows signs of senilty or arrogance... I think much more of Einstein than that, so I am cynical about whether he actually came up with this or if he did whether he made that statement.

# May 10, 2007 2:35 AM
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