Puzzle
SOLVE THIS RIDDLE AND FIND OUT:
There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
HINTS
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 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 center 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 man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.
thats right drmana, yours is also one of the solutions..
btw, the first is generally considered from the left unless ofcourse you are writing arabic or urdu or the like..
rishimba, I agree : norwegian lives in the first house. But does the riddle specify 1st house from left or right? No, it doesn't.....so I am right as well. As per my sequence,norwegian lives in the first house from right. Hence, all conditions fulfilled.
I've encountered this riddle a lot of times and tried answering it numerous times so I already knew the answer but I keep on forgetting that's why I have answered it "numerous" times. Haha... I even sketched it on a piece of paper..
drmana, i took nearly 30 minutes to get it and then i cross checked all the conditions...
norwegian lives in the first house..thats one of the condition, so it has to be yellow.
rishimba, why is my sequence wrong? Does it cause mismatch of any of the given facts? If not, why the sequence I got should be considered wrong?
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
drmana, you are right, the german keeps the fish..
but the order of the houses is a bit incorrect.
it should be in the order of ( from left to right): yellow, blue, red. green, white.
www.stanford.edu/~laurik/fsmbook/.../Einstein'sPuzzle.html
good mental exercise for the day.......
Felt nice trying to solve it
thanks for posting
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
ok, my conclusions:
1.Yellow house has Norwegian, who drinks water, smokes Dunhill and rears Cats.
2. Blue house has Dane who drinks Tea, smokes Blends, and has Horses
3. Red house has Brit who drinks Milk, Smokes Pall Mall and has Birds
4. White house has Swede who drinks Beer, smokes Blue Master and has Dogs
5. Green House has German, who drinks Coffee, smokes Prince and has FISH.
So the German owns the Fish.
Is this correct?
I know the answer , but I can't tell because I don't want anybody to feel bad :P
It's not really that difficult. The part about Einstein's quote was probably bogus. But still it was fun.
http://www.parablog.com/wp/2005/02/18/who-owns-the-fish-solution/
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I am not sure is ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. and doubt that HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT...
I have solved hundreds of similar problems.. as a matter of fact, I used to love this type of puzzles...
so in my spear time i will definitely try to revive this one of my hobbies.. :)
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
So are we right or wrong? What is the answer?
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
Yep, my bad drmana. It works if you solve from right to left also. But the house order changes. From left to right it will be Green, White, Red , Blue and Yellow in that case.
I remember struggling with the green white and green coffee combo for a while. Let me check if it can be done from right to left. Give me half an hour.
why would that be so deepb? In the sequence I arrived at, green house is still on the left of white house.....
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
drmana, If first house starts from right then clue no.4 green house is on left of white house gets fumbled and you will not arrive at the answer.
its not just the sequence of house that should fit in the riddle, isn't it?
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
Sorry I am colour blind
Ahh different approach.. During the time this riddle was made.. most of starting point always on left not on right!
check this other solution
From left to right
Yellow house, Blue house, Red House, Green House, White House.
Right??
deepb, first house from which side.
as per me, Norwegian does live in the Yellow house which is first house from right.....
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
No drmana.
the norweigan lives in the first house so He lives in the yellow house.
The houses are in this order - Yellow, Blue, Red , Green, White.
pranzer, thats correct. As per me, houses are in following sequence:( from left to right)
GREEN - WHITE - RED - BLUE - YELLOW
alfaQ please tell me if I am correct, I spent half an hour doing this :-P
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
4. Green is left of white house.!!
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
is this correct? :D
German because Eistein is German and live at fourth haus! ahahaha
The German raises the fish.
ok google can also give the answers ..thanks..i will try google for every riddle from now onwords :)
Googling is easy but you still need brains to solve
German in the green house owns the fish
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The German...
wow good riddle..i am one of 98% i cant solve it..
remaining 2% please solve n let me know the ans