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(Message started by: malavide on Jan 8^th, 2003, 11:29am)

Title: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by malavide on Jan 8^th, 2003, 11:29am

:-/ 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.

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by Phil on Jan 31^st, 2003, 8:52am

Answer: [hide]
The German in the green 4th house smoking prince with his coffee. [/hide]

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by Redgie A. Baguio on Aug 3^rd, 2005, 5:43am

ANSWER: The German owns the fish.

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by Redgie A. Baguio on Aug 3^rd, 2005, 5:47am

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that i can stay with problems longer.

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by JocK on Aug 6^th, 2005, 4:24am

What does this all have to do with Albert Einstein?

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by Icarus on Aug 6^th, 2005, 8:54am

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 (http://www.puzzler.co.uk/) 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.

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by tyler carroll on Oct 24^th, 2005, 8:59pm

dan owns the fish in the green house

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by danielle paolello on Nov 8^th, 2005, 3:53pm

norwegian owns the fish
lives in yellow house
drinks beer
smokes bluemaster

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by Mindy Kinsey on Nov 11^th, 2005, 8:28am

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.

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by Icarus on Nov 11^th, 2005, 5:30pm

But perhaps the German's name is "Dan Norwegian" :P

Title: Re: HELP WITH A ALBERT EINSTEIN RIDDLE
Post by Grimbal on Nov 15^th, 2005, 2:58pm

on 11/08/05 at 15:53:11, danielle paolello wrote:

norwegian owns the fish
lives in yellow house
drinks beer
smokes bluemaster

No, no!
[hide]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.[/hide]