Einstein's Riddle

**Wombat** · November 4th, 2002, 01:48 PM

I don't know if this has been posted before, but a friend emailed it to me and I know you all love riddles.

Paul

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 a 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 questions 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 neighbour who drinks water.

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

IT CAN BE DONE!! BE PART OF THE 2% THAT COULD!!

**eagle1** · November 4th, 2002, 01:58 PM

Oh this is easy!!!!
But I'm not telling the answer!!!!

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Yeah right.!!!

**J-Excel** · November 4th, 2002, 02:00 PM

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J-Excel checks Google

**Creatures** · November 4th, 2002, 02:05 PM

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Creatures

**eagle1** · November 4th, 2002, 02:06 PM

It's really very easy!!
Really.!!!
I'm not joking!

**vass0922** · November 4th, 2002, 02:55 PM

1+1=3 is easier... come on people!

**Creatures** · November 4th, 2002, 02:56 PM

hehe everything is relative

Creatures

**OuTpaTienT** · November 4th, 2002, 03:11 PM

Google keeps the fish.

**cyphen** · November 4th, 2002, 03:15 PM

I know it I know it I know it!

Who can i tell??? can i post it???

**Epidemic** · November 4th, 2002, 05:10 PM

6 erasers later I have finally got it.

You suck! for posting such a challenge.

Who will pm me with their logic. Mine was so disjointed I do
not know if I could ever tell someone how to answer.

Basically used the detective motto. when you eliminate the impossible you have found the answer. or was that spocks in star trek.

**BobOmega** · November 4th, 2002, 05:27 PM

i did this is geometry last year. (don't know why we did it, i think it was a day she wasn't in school..)
but i got the same answer.

**Ruler2112** · November 5th, 2002, 03:49 AM

That was Spock Epidemic.

"When we eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbably, must be the truth." (OK, I'll stop showing off about how much of a geek I am.

) But as a side-riddle, can anybody name the episode in which this was said?

If you want, I'll scan the page I used and send it to you with a brief explaination. PM me your e-mail addy. Once you get it set up right, it's fairly easy. Excellent puzzle for logical thinking, which is probably why they used it in your geometry class Bob.

I do think one clue needs clarification, as that's the one spot where you don't use logic, but an assumption.

Took me 1/2 hour to give in and resort to the assumption, which happened to be correct.

**Ruler2112** · November 5th, 2002, 04:18 AM

Originally posted by Wombat

Einstein wrote this riddle this century.

Just noticed this... Einstein's quite a guy!

**Gibbo** · November 5th, 2002, 04:50 AM

Ruler: Star trek 6: the undiscoverd country, I believe

*gets ready for a battering when told it's not the origional quote*

P.s - Looked up the einsteins riddle answer on Google

**Sweeper** · November 5th, 2002, 04:52 AM

This was origninally posted: 07-10-2001 10:04 AM (Hint Hint)

**Ruler2112** · November 5th, 2002, 05:12 PM

You got it Gibbo!

(I said 'episode to throw people off. Works on my brother all the time.)

I'm wondering how many people bothered to work it out instead og going the google way...

**Barney** · November 5th, 2002, 05:28 PM

Wasn't that from the scene where they determined that the Bird of Prey had been blown up by another, cloaked Bird of Prey?

It's a famous qoute, alright, but it wasn't originally Spock's.

Oh, and I did solve the riddle, although it did take a little while...

shahani · November 5th, 2002, 05:35 PM

Epidemic, if you used a Quattro Pro spreadsheet like me, you'd have saved on erasers.

**Hawkeye** · November 5th, 2002, 06:40 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! I got it, wow did I get pissed at it before I got it though, poor innocent paper

but I got.

w00t!

Anyone up for swappin answers?

-Hawkeye

**Epidemic** · November 5th, 2002, 06:58 PM

Not to burst anyones bubble but I think Einstein was wrong again.

So far about 98% of people have solved it.

Not so bad as he thought. Either that or we are much brighter now then they were at the turn of the century.