PUZZLE
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row. 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. Other facts:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house`s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
Question: Who owns the fish, what color house does he live in, what does he smoke & drink?
(source: Joshua Felsher)
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2 comments:
Albert Einstein wrote the preceding riddle. He was quoted as saying that he believed that 98% of the world could not solve it. Are you in the top 2% of intelligent people in the world? There is no trick - just pure logic...
1
Yellow
Norwegian
Water
Dunhill
Cats
2
Blue
Dane
Tea
Blends
Horse
3
Red
Brit
Milk
Paul Mall
Birds
4
Green
German
Coffee
Prince
Fish (from question since no hint of fish given)
5
White
Swede
Beer
Bluemasters
Dogs
You know what the problem with this puzzle is, and maybe it's not really, I didn't try it the other way, is that it says "the first house" and then it makes reference to certain houses being left or right of each other. I forces up to make the assumption that "the first house" is farthest to the left as we would read words on a page. But other cultures don't read like this necessarily. However, as I said, if you assume the first house in the farthest to the right, the puzzle may not have a solution, or at least not a definite one. I didn't try it.
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