Apparently Albert Einstein devised this puzzle early during the 19th century and said that 98% of the world's population would not be able to solve it. I tried it out the other day and managed it in roughly an hour and a half and didn't find it very difficult at all...
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors. 2. In each house lives a person of different nationality. 3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
Clues:
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 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 center 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.
So, who owns the fish?
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I have done this before. On here i believe, can't remember the answer though. I shall have a think about it.
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I have this, plus a table of answers in my document. The German owns the fish
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I did this in my algebra class last year. I'm pretty sure it was the German.
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No doubt ze German owns ze fish. It has been proven. Ja.
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Yeah, it's the German guy. I figured it out in like 6th grade...
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We used to do a bunch of puzzles like this with matrices in the Gifted & Talented class in middle school. I loved them. I kicked ass at them.
We did this one then too. It's the German.
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Quote: from Ryan Potter at 3:48 pm on Feb. 17, 2008
Yeah, it's the German guy. I figured it out in like 6th grade...
X2 lol
i was given this problem in fourth grade lol
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all wrong awnsers so far.
As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!
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I'm not even gonna attempt that. I fail at these kinds of puzzles. They're WAY too complex for my simple mind
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norock
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Quote: from Blackadder at 11:08 pm on Feb. 19, 2008
all wrong awnsers so far.
As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!
no, its the german.
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az123
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I got the german but logically it SHOULD be the norwigien since norwigiens are renound for eating, catching and keeping fish. But on this puzzle I got the german
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Quote: from Blackadder at 11:08 pm on Feb. 19, 2008
all wrong awnsers so far.
As a certified LiveWire Intellectual you are indubitably capable of composing a more verbose post!
no, its the german.
nope...see my topic
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norock
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no, you are wrong lol its the german
god damn verbose
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98% of people get it wrong because 80% don't bother, and the other 18% are people who make a fundemental error, by thinking its the german.
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Yeah, it's the German guy. I figured it out in like 6th grade...
