Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Einstein's Riddle

I read this riddle yesterday night and it took me around half hour to solve it. Try to solve it and check your IQ.

References:

http://www.manbottle.com/popular/einstein_s_riddle

http://www.increasebrainpower.com/einsteins-riddle.html

http://hlavolamy.szm.sk/brainteasers/einsteins-riddles.htm

Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it

Here is the riddle:

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?

CLUES

•         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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer:

5              4              3              2              1            

white      green      red          blue  Yellow      :house            

Swede    German Brit         Dane  Norwegian   :nationality        

dogs        Fish         birds       horse   cats              :pet

blumas.  Prince     Palmal. Blend   Dunhill         :cigar

beer        coffee    milk        tea          water     :beverage              


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