Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
In each house lives a person with a different nationality
These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.
Here's the question: Who owns the fish?
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 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 middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door 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
With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.
Here's the question: Who owns the fish?
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saw this on a forum.
i solved it, took quite a long time though.
try it :D
Next post, the answer.
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Okay, let's see ...
We'll number the five houses 1-5, left to right, and we'll assume that the two end houses only have one neighbour each. We can draw up a table with five columns and start filling it in:
Norwegian lives at #1 [rule 9].
#3 drinks milk [rule 8].
Blue house is next to the Norwegian [rule 14], so #2= blue.
[Rule 4] says that green is followed by white, so those have to be either 3&4, or 4&5 ... but #3 drinks milk, and green drinks coffee [rule 5] so #4=green, and #5=white.
The Brit lives in a red house, red must be #1 or #3. But the Norwegian is at #1, so the red Brit must live at #3.
This leaves yellow. So the Norwegian at #1 must be yellow. Yellow = Dunhill [rule 5], so yellow=#1, Dunhill=#1.
That's all the colours assigned to house numbers (y, b, r, g, w)
The Blend-smoker is next door to the water-drinker [rule 15], so that rules out #5 for the Blend guy, since it's only next door to a coffee-drinker at #4. So the unknown water drinker must be at #1 or #2, we've already established that #1 smokes Dunhill, so the Blend guy neighbouring the water-drinker must be at #2, and since #3 is milk, our water-drinker must be the Norwegian at #1.
It's coming together.
Now we have a beer-drinking Bluemaster smoker [rule 12], who can only fit into the table at #5, which means that we have four out of five beverages decided, and our tea-drinking Dane [rule 3], has to live at #2.
That's the drinks order sorted, water,tea,milk,coffee,beer
We have a German who smokes Prince [rule 13], who can only fit at #4, which means that the Pall Mall smoker must be at #3. That sorts out the order of cigarette smokers, D, B, PM, P, BM.
Now, animals.
Pall Mall rears birds [rule 6], so birds=#3.
[Rule 11] puts the horse-owner next door to the Dunhill smoker. The Dunhill smoker is at #1, so the horses are at #2
[Rule 10] puts the cat-owner next door to the #2 Blend smoker, at #1 or #3. But we've already decided that #3 is birds, so cats go in at #1.
The Swede at #5 keeps dogs [rule 2], so, assuming that I've not fouled up anywhere ...
... that means that the Dane who lives at number two must be the mystery fish-keeper?
nope. you're wrong dude.
its German who keeps the fish :)
Well, like I said in the "animals" section, if you go through all the previous arguments, they definitively rule out the house numbers 1, 2, 3 & 5 (1=cats, 2=horses, 3=birds and 5=dogs), and that means that the only number you're left with is number ... 2.
Umm ...
Aw crap, it's number four isn't it?
Like you said, the German coffee-drinking green-doored prince-smoker. pah.
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