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malavide
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HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« on: Jan 8th, 2003, 11:29am » |
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 hey they say this is the greatest riddle of all time.
I've tried every thing, and damn I just cant solve it, please help
and send me the results - malavide@yahoo.com.
here it goes.
1. In a street there is 5 houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
3. These five home owners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
The question is, Who owns the fish?
specify his nationality, house colour, brand of cigar and preferred beverage.
Hints,
The Briton live in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left side of the white house.
The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man in the centre house drinks milk.
The Norwegian live in the first house.
The man who smokes blends lives nxt 2 the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives nxt 2 the man who smokes Dunhill.
The man who smokes Bleu Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives nxt 2 the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #1 on: Jan 31st, 2003, 8:52am » |
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Answer:
The German in the green 4th house smoking prince with his coffee.
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Redgie A. Baguio
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #2 on: Aug 3rd, 2005, 5:43am » |
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ANSWER: The German owns the fish.
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #3 on: Aug 3rd, 2005, 5:47am » |
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that i can stay with problems longer.
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #4 on: Aug 6th, 2005, 4:24am » |
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What does this all have to do with Albert Einstein?
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xy - y = x5 - y4 - y3 = 20; x>0, y>0.
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #5 on: Aug 6th, 2005, 8:54am » |
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This puzzle was long ago (and falsely, if I recall) attributed to Albert Einstein. It is probably the best-known example of a Gaussian Elimination puzzle (don't ask me why they are called that - I don't know), but despite the grandiose claim in the first post, it is far from the hardest. A friend of mine used to subscribe to Tough Puzzles in the 1980s, and it had three or four each month (in addition to puzzles of other types), all of which were more convoluted than this one.
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And e is just as cursed.
I wonder: Which is larger
When their digits are reversed? " - Anonymous
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #6 on: Oct 24th, 2005, 8:59pm » |
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dan owns the fish in the green house
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danielle paolello
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #7 on: Nov 8th, 2005, 3:53pm » |
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norwegian owns the fish
lives in yellow house
drinks beer
smokes bluemaster
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #8 on: Nov 11th, 2005, 8:28am » |
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The Answer is solved by deduction, not process of elemination. The German lives in the green house, smokes Prince, drinks coffee and keeps a fish.
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #9 on: Nov 11th, 2005, 5:30pm » |
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But perhaps the German's name is "Dan Norwegian" 
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Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
« Reply #10 on: Nov 15th, 2005, 2:58pm » |
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on Nov 8th, 2005, 3:53pm, danielle paolello wrote:norwegian owns the fish
lives in yellow house
drinks beer
smokes bluemaster |
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No, no!
The Norvegian owns a cat, the fish lives in a green house, in the yellow house one drinks water.
But OK, beer is served with Bleu Master.
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