EINSTEIN QUIZ.. can u solve it?

vishal_1986

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Below is a quiz written by Einstein last century, sometimes called Einstein's Riddle. Probably translated and updated since then but the logic is the same.

Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve his riddle. Are you among the other 2%?

Facts:
1: There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
2: In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3: These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
4: No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Further Details:
1: The Brit lives in a 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 owner 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 house right in the center drinks milk.
9: The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13: The German smokes Prince.
14: The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15: The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is ... WHO KEEPS FISH?

Think about it. I'm pretty sure you're in the 2% of people who can solve Einstein's Riddle. But can you solve it elegantly? In other words, lay out a solution so simply that the rest of us feel like dopes when we see it. Would you like to see my solution? Click below for a step-by-step solution. Try to predict each next step. Good luck!

http://mcraefamily.com/Graeme/EinsteinQuiz01.htm
 

A.J.

Maverick
A.J. said:
Nice one. :aj:

Took me almost 10 mins to get the answer :aj:


And the best part is.......on checking my answer, I found out that I'm wrong!!! :aj1:

Indeed, no way to assume who keeps it :aj:
 

kartik

Kartik Raichura
Staff member
The question is ... WHO KEEPS FISH?

Regardless of you guys might say... I kept on thinking.. wtf.. how d hell did a fish pop up in d question ... I m in 2 % ;)
 

vishal_1986

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kartik said:
Regardless of you guys might say... I kept on thinking.. wtf.. how d hell did a fish pop up in d question ... I m in 2 % ;)

if u read the hints...

thr r only 4 pets given and we gotta find the 5th..ie the DAMN fish..whr it wil come..

crakc ur brains kartik...

im done with 9 hints.. my brain is gonna burst now
 

kartik

Kartik Raichura
Staff member
The 5th is a fish is an assumption :p ...

For people who already think the way I do.. they are in the 2 % ;)
 

A.J.

Maverick
too cute said:
The German owns the Fish...............................................

Yeah, that's what I thought too.......but no, you don't know which pet the German is keeping. It might be anything, as nowhere is the fish mentioned as a pet. :aj:
 

aspire

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This quiz was easy .. einstein thougt only 2%of the junta wud b able to solve it
 

bips

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ok i'm part of the 98%... just got completly lost,... but will start all over again... hate it when i cant get an ans
 

deya

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ok i tried it 2 n ws through most of it....but i got norway havin FISH,.....which is wrong!!!!!!!!! :(

tried again....n then got da ans....so i m nt in both :p
 
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