Einstein's Riddle
By TexasTornado
@TexasTornado (131)
United States
September 8, 2006 3:51pm CST
This riddle is said to have been invented by Albert Einstein as a boy, with the common claim that Einstein said "only 2 percent of the world's population can solve this". There are different variations like...who drinks water? Who owns the zebra? etc.
- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?
Necessary clues:
1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man 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 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 Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.
5 responses
@TexasTornado (131)
• United States
5 Oct 06
Okay - maybe I'm just dumb but I can't figure it out.
I am almost positive that the order of houses is:
Yellow
Blue
Red
Green
White
And I get all the way through to the end - but the German dude ALWAYS messes me up.
Can anybody tell me if they are getting the same order for the houses?
