Einstein's riddle
- now, its obvious that the answer can be found on the web, however, how many of you can solve it w/out looking it up before you try to figure it out, and how fast can you do it??? i had an old friend do it in 20minutes... it took me 15minutes.... counting the coffee i was drinking while figuring it out. have fun
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 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 Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green homeowner 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 Blend 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 Bluemaster drinks beer.
The German smokes prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. Its not hard, you just need to pay attention and be patient.
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 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 Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green homeowner 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 Blend 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 Bluemaster drinks beer.
The German smokes prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. Its not hard, you just need to pay attention and be patient.
Comments
I don't want to spoil it for others that will try, but I would like to compare all of my answers with you and not just who owns the fish...PM me, or if nobody responds we can just post our answers here.
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OmniGraffle helped a lot, as would have Excel had I thought to use it.
I suck at these things though.
I just used a pen and paper and it took me a while. The time seemed to go a lot faster after I realized that I could use a pencil instead of a pen and just erase my mistakes. HA!
Originally posted by ragingloogie
Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century.
So he did figure out a way round the old time travel paradox after all. I knew it! The old fox.
Originally posted by groverat
Einstein was born in the 1870s.
Oh so it's meant to mean early in his life during the 19th century not early in the 19th century. Then again it may mean he wrote it at 5 am oneday in 1892 I suppose......
http://www.naute.com/puzzles/puzzle13.phtml
thats the site that i copied it from because i couldnt get the other site that iw anted to copy it from because of the schools stupid fire wall... anyways... i love my PB i was able to get asignal in class rooms that didnt have a wireless box on it
anyways, have fun to furture people who like to try to figure it out
also, i used microsoft excel to figure out that riddle, so if i made a mistake, i clicked on bakcspace and everything was at eye level so i wouldnt have to look up and down at the riddle and my piece of paper
take care
Originally posted by CosmoNut
So...was it the butler in the library with the candlestick?
um.. no.. and theres no butler, or library in the riddle.. even after re-reading it... if i may ask, where you get the butler, in the library w/ the candlestick?
Originally posted by ragingloogie
um.. no.. and theres no butler, or library in the riddle.. even after re-reading it... if i may ask, where you get the butler, in the library w/ the candlestick?
Get a Clue.
"Clue" is a board game and movie where the goal is to figure out who in the house committed a particular murder. In the same way you have to narrow clues down to Einstein's riddle through process of elimination and deduction, the same must be done in "Clue."
I was making a funny...which was lost on some here.
EDIT - I don't know which is worse: The fact that he/she didn't get it or that I actually took the time to explain it.
Originally posted by CosmoNut
EDIT - I don't know which is worse: The fact that he/she didn't get it or that I actually took the time to explain it.
Or that I read both.
And typed this.
Thanks mr. loogie!
Excel is a cleaner way although less fun to move things around in.
Pencil and paper I'm sure is best, with eraser
Brain only? No way.
Originally posted by CosmoNut
Young grasshopper, you have much to learn. Then again, you may not even know the reference to "young grasshopper." \
"Clue" is a board game and movie where the goal is to figure out who in the house committed a particular murder. In the same way you have to narrow clues down to Einstein's riddle through process of elimination and deduction, the same must be done in "Clue."
I was making a funny...which was lost on some here.
EDIT - I don't know which is worse: The fact that he/she didn't get it or that I actually took the time to explain it.
ah, clue, the board game... damn, im stupid:-\\ my bad, im sorry.. didnt realize...
Originally posted by Paul
very cool. I wrote out the hints in excel to make them easy to follow and did the rest on paper. Once I had everything written out nicely it took about 5 minutes. I sent my final listing to ijerry. I won't post it publicly so others can figure it out.
Thanks mr. loogie!
Nice have fun
Umm ... and *spoiler*:
Dunnhill isn't very popular here....
Of what abomination are you speaking of?
The name is Cluedo.
Possible spoiler:
And who owns the fish? Well, clearly, the man who lives a door away from a beer drinker, who wouldn't be seen dead smoking Blend and who's on first name terms with a birdkeeper.