Einstein's Riddle (Very hard...Come in if you dare)

[XZeroII]

There are 5 houses of 5 different colors. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. Each of the 5 residents drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigar, and keeps a certain pet. None of them 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 resident of the green house drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

The resident of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The resident of the center house drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

The person who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.

The person who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.

The person who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.

The German smokes Prince.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The person 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's not hard, you just need to pay attention and be patient.

Took me about 15 minutes, but I got it. Wow, it was a toughie. I'll post the answer later.





















Answer:
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************ it's*the*German,*in*the*green*house,*drank*coffee,*smoked*prince*and*owned*FISHES!!!!*******
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[minendo]

I've done this one before so I won't post any spoilers.

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: minendo
I've done this one before so I won't post any spoilers.

had to do this for my CS course project so i know the answer. let's just say i orginially didn't get it

 

[eLiu]

i love these kinds of problems...just make a table and you can easily keep track of who can't have what and you'll eliminate the stuff down...i did this problem in ~10 minutes in 7th grade (i took a fun-class on logical thinking). very cool!

 

[ohtwell]

The one with the fish is the German who lives in the green house, drinks coffee, and smokes Prince!! I think that's right! Is it?

Took me about 8 min.


: ) Amanda

 

[isaacmacdonald]

don't want to spoil anything, but I'm not sure if I have the correct answer... pm'd the author

 

[isaacmacdonald]

well here's what I figured. I think it's right: spoiler?

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: ohtwell
The one with the fish is the German who lives in the green house, drinks coffee, and smokes Prince!! I think that's right! Is it?

Took me about 8 min. : )

Amanda

i was sniffing her connection, she used google. cheater!

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: m2kewl

Originally posted by: ohtwell
The one with the fish is the German who lives in the green house, drinks coffee, and smokes Prince!! I think that's right! Is it?

Took me about 8 min.


: ) Amanda

i was sniffing her connection, she used google. cheater!

Did not!


: ) Amanda

 

[isaacmacdonald]

hmm... googled, and I got the right answer, but the wrong house color. what's up with that?

 

[Yax]

The question is: Who owns the fish?

The Japanese family. Its a Koi.

Edit: Actually, the problem is very easy once you figure out that you need to make a table. Someone gave it away when the mentioned that earlier.

 

[ThreeLeggedGnome]

Einstein, is that the guy who couldn't tie his own shoes?

 

[isaacmacdonald]

Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald
hmm... googled, and I got the right answer, but the wrong house color. what's up with that?

I'm thinking the "first house" is the problem. Do we assume the "First house" is the furtherst left, or furthest right? If it were the furthest right, my guy would have the right house.

 

[Zrom999]

Got it... took about 15min.
German got the fish.
Just keep eliminating to get the information.

 

[guyver01]

The complete solution is as follows:







Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede

Yellow Blue Red Green White

Dunhill Blends Pall Mall Prince Bluemasters

Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer

Cats Horse Birds Fish Dogs

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: m2kewl

Originally posted by: ohtwell
The one with the fish is the German who lives in the green house, drinks coffee, and smokes Prince!! I think that's right! Is it?

Took me about 8 min. : )

Amanda

i was sniffing her connection, she used google. cheater!

Sniffing her what??

 

[TCPpacket]

i think the ambassador problem is harder.

There are five men with the first names of Alan, Erwin, Howard, Peter, and Randy. The last names of these five men are Carter, Kneech, Morley, Stamey, and Vance. Note that these last names are not in any given order and may be the last names of any of the men. Each of these five men will be the ambassadors of one of the five following countries: France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Spain. Between the five men, each of them speak one of the following languages: French, Italian, German, Russian, and Spanish. The catch is, the ambassador of a certain country does not speak that language (i.e. the ambassador of Germany does not speak German). I'll put it in an easier to understand format:

FIRST NAME: Alan, Erwin, Howard, Peter, Randy

LAST NAME: Carter, Kneech, Morley, Stamey, Vance

AMBASSADOR TO: France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Spain

LANGUAGES: French, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish

Finally, we are given the following facts about the men:

(1) Neither Peter, Erwin, nor Mr. Kneesh are ambassador to Spain.

(2) Neither Howard, nor the ambassador to Italy speak Russian or German.

(3) Neither the man who speaks Italian, nor Mr. Vance will be ambassador to France.

(4) Mr. Stamey, Mr. Kneech, the man who speaks Spanish, Randy, and the ambassador to Italy are all differrent people.

(5) Howard, Mr. Carter, Alan, the ambassador to Russia, and the man who speaks Italian are all different people.

(6) Peter does not speak German.

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
The question is: Who owns the fish?

The Japanese family. Its a Koi.

Edit: Actually, the problem is very easy once you figure out that you need to make a table. Someone gave it away when the mentioned that earlier.

I drew five little cute houses on a piece of paper and then just wrote the answers underneath the houses.


: ) Amanda

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: ohtwell

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
The question is: Who owns the fish?

The Japanese family. Its a Koi.

Edit: Actually, the problem is very easy once you figure out that you need to make a table. Someone gave it away when the mentioned that earlier.

I drew five little cute houses on a piece of paper and then just wrote the answers underneath the houses.


: ) Amanda

Me too.

Here is what I got:
1
Nor
Water
Yllw
Dun
Cats

2
Dane
Tea
Blue
Blends
Horse

3
Brit
Milk
Red
Pall
Birds

4
German
Coffee
Green
Prince
Fish

5
Swed
Beer
White
Bluemaster
Dog

 

I solved this puzzle about two years ago. It wasn't that hard.

I'm not in the mood to do something that I've done before.

P.S.: I didn't know that it was Einstein's puzzle.

 

[XZeroII]

Yea, it's the German, in the green house, drank coffee, smoked prince and owned FISHES!!!! I made a table too, but it was on a piece of paper and it looks pretty bad

 

[bleeb]

HEY POST THE OFFICIAL ANSWER IN THE FIRST BOX>

 

[Turkish]

i guess i am dumb, it took me like 25 minutes

 

[jaydee]

If 98% of the world can't solve it, he must be accounting for ~90% of the world which doesn't understand english (that's a guess, I have no idea the actual percentages).

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

too hard for me