25 December, 2009

EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE

The story behind Einstein's riddle is that Albert Einstein created it in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. We cannot be sure of the true origin, but I have seen it around the Internet for quite a while, and it is a good brain exercise. My own niece, aged 15, has solved it without difficulty.
Try yourselves!

Here it is:
- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality.
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

Necessary clues:
(Take into account that the houses are seen from left to right)

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 centre 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.

1 comment:

  1. HI! we are Ane and Onintze and we have tried to resolve this riddle but is very difficult. we have tried over and over but this riddle is only for clever people and we aren´t! jajaja...
    It´s very funny riddle!
    kisses!

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