Solve this and be among 2%
By Furrukh
@Furrukh (701)
Pakistan
November 15, 2006 9:05am CST
Below is a quiz written by Einstein last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. Are you among the other 2%?
Here you go...
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 owner has the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.
HINTS:
1: The British 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 (it also means they are next door to each other)
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?
Solution: Solve this and be among 2%
Sorry, this ones for you. First try to solve it on paper, and then once when you have solved it, reply in this post with every correct answer and i'll let u know whter its correct or not
7 responses
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
20 Dec 06
No body keeps the fish. Tell me the correct answer.
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@josephperera (2906)
• Sri Lanka
13 Dec 06
Well! Mr Furrukh, in a short while I am not only going to give you the answer, but I will teach all mylotters to solve any problem of a similar kind within minutes. So from now on all mylotters will be mini Einsteins crawling on the web.
First you have to prepare a grid with all the possibilities.
This has to be done by reading the points from top to bottom one time. After that you start erasing or cutting off what you find is not applicable to a situation. This I'll call the First reading. Then this has to be done again and again, and in this case the soulution came from the Fourth reading.
The German in the Green House Drinks Coffee and Smokes Prince. He keeps the Fish.
The First and the Second Reading is attached to this as an image. The Third and the Fourth Reading is in the first comment to this, as I can only add one image to the response.
@josephperera (2906)
• Sri Lanka
13 Dec 06
You can find the third and the fourth final reading in the image attached. This type of riddle is simple to solve using the grid that I used.
Thanks for the wonderful riddle. It was a real thrill solving it.
@Jusred (1578)
• United States
13 Dec 06
..As I will not give away the 'actual answer', for it is not my place, being not my discussion, I will say this~
Our logic leads us to no other logical conclusion then 'The German in the green house who drinks coffee and smokes Prince keeps the fish', it is in fact not the 'answer' that Einstein was seeking...And that is why he stated only 2% of the population would be able to 'answer' it~
:)
@bluejay1122 (140)
• United States
23 Dec 06
The German keeps the fish.
He lives in the fouth house
The house is green
He is German
He drinks coffee
He smokes Prince
His pet is a Fish
@cloud_kicker_32 (4635)
• United States
12 Dec 06
I will say it is the Norweigan house..everyone has a pet but him..soo Regis thats my final answer!! lol lol That was kinda hard..
@cloud_kicker_32 (4635)
• United States
12 Dec 06
sooo i kinda need to know if im right cause its killing me!! lol or is she??? if u dont want anyone to know can u email us? lol thanx so much!!
@cloud_kicker_32 (4635)
• United States
12 Dec 06
nope i was wrong,..,I wrote it all out...it was The GERMAN..GREEN HOUSE,,HAD FISH,DRANK COFFEE,PRINCE SMOKES..my bad..
