yay, a riddle of the sort I'm sure we got meeelions of at school (without the spamulated melodrama - einstein and 2% of the world indeed) - I think it's solvable with half a 25x25 matrix or something simpler - I am off to study now (no, really) - have fun - d@vid
- Yeah, 2% my ass. Takes about 5 minutes with a text editor to doodle in. It is fun, though. :) - MyrdemInggala
- Hah. 5 minutes my ass. Got it tho. I remember our std.2 teacher tried to do it in front of the whole class, and made it a group effort when she couldn't do it. we sat there for the last week of school trying to get it right, but we only got about halfway. - ToothpasteDealer
- Peer pressure strikes again. Now everyone is doing it. I was the next to succumb. - ElfBoy
- 5 min with a text editor? damn took me less than 5 min after reading it through a couple times. - BlueHands
- Hah! i solved this riddle in 5 seconds using intuition alone. I then solved it the logical way and confirmed my hypothesis. - MoonFlake
- The spirit of my grandfather said "There is a riddle. It is solved." And I saw in his words a solution. And seeing the solution, I left. Never to return. - GnomeThing
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.
2. The 5 owners drink certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
3. 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 centre 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 and he said 98% of the world could not solve it.
It can be done! Be part of the 2% that COULD.