Here's a little something for you to do while you are waiting for more history. My wife used to love to solve these riddles, but now she just tries to stay ahead of working at our store. It's kind of a riddle in itself. ALBERT EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE
ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD? SOLVE THE RIDDLE AND FIND OUT.
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.
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 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 next to, and 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 centre 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 neighbour who drinks water.
Hints from me:
1- It really is easy if you have a logical mind.
2-Make a chart.
3-You don't have to be Einstein to solve it
I'm not going to post the answer for a few days because some people cheat!
answer, click on link below:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jwolfe851/SolToEin.htm
Ya but, do we need to know the fish live in water or the Germans house?
ReplyDeleteSome things can be assumed, like a pond.
ReplyDeleteHow did you figure it out?I took a shortcut
I'm getting emails from people who figured it out, including my very smart daughter!
ReplyDeleteMy shortcut was back in high school. Math class with a Hungarian exile of '56 by the name of Hugo as our teacher. Simple LOGIC table.
ReplyDeleteBut Hugo would tell you Germans are equal to fish...Hungarian humor. He kept a photo of Mr. E on his desk of Big E at a blackboard with the proof and at the Bottom was: GERMAN = FISH.
If you did a chart, as someone above did, you will find the the man who drank water, was also left as a mystery until everything else was graphed, then it became aparent who drank water, and... who had to have had the fish!
ReplyDeleteThe shortcut that I took was to Google it... I was the cheater that I talked about.