Thursday, November 15, 2007

Einstein Puzzle... Who owns the Fish?

Urban legend has it that this puzzle was written by Einstein (Lewis Carroll also given attribution) and that he claimed only 2% of the world's population could solve it.

Which percentage are you in?

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THE PUZZLE
There are five houses in five different colors.
In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
These five owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigarette and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of smoke or drink the same drink.

GIVEN THAT:
  1. The Brit lives in the 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 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 OWNS THE FISH?
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No fair looking up the solution online or writing code to solve it for you. I was forced to solve this puzzle last night under threat of pre-teen ridicule.

But, if you are so lacy to solve it and just want the answer, then follow this link.... shame on you! hahaha!!!

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