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    Einstein's Riddle :: Who own's the fish?

    No using Google, no saying old. If you know the answer, then don't post it quite yet.

    Saw this elsewhere, thought I'd share it here...
    • This is solvable….

      1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

      2. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

      3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

      The question is, “Who owns the fish?”

      Facts:

      The Brit lives in the red house.

      The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

      The Dane drinks tea.

      The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.

      The green house’s owner drinks coffee.

      The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

      The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

      The man living in the center house drinks milk.

      The Norwegian lives in the first house.

      The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.

      The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.

      The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.

      The German smokes Prince.

      The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

      The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

    See the worksheet here...

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    It took me two days (including school, work, food, and sleep) and 7 pieces of paper to get this right.

    Good luck everyone.


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    I got it

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    this is pretty flipping hard

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    i did these all teh time in school, there not that hard.
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    i am getting there... i think.. printing out my 2nd worksheet for clean copy...

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    I got it after 20ish minutes.

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    Enjoyed that one.
    Nice way to kill 10 minutes.
    Thanks Gerb.
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    The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
    does the neighbor have to be next door???

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    Originally posted by admedia
    does the neighbor have to be next door???
    Yes.
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    whats does rears birds mean
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    Originally posted by moats
    whats does rears birds mean
    Funny, I don't remember sexual orientation as part of the puzzle?
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    Re: Einstein's Riddle :: Who own's the fish?

    Originally posted by gerbick

    The question is, “Who owns the fish?”
    I thought it was "Who onws the Zebra?" ...

    /the question is the only good use for the programming language 'Prolog' I've ever seen.

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    Originally posted by moats
    whats does rears birds mean
    he raises/breeds animals that fly.

    I seriously hate Brit slang at times.

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    ok, i am taking a break... i'll look at this again tomorrow... i can't be in the 98%...

    i wish i could just solve it by putting
    error_reporting(E_ALL);
    at the top of the page and see where my logic is failing..

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    got it!

    in 50 minutes exactly


    i love these things
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    uh ohh... i hope that didnt flaw my logic..
    i thought rears birds meant. he despises them.
    I can only postulate the probability of performing at a paramount level of perfection praised by the pulchritudinous paragon whose only practice is to preserve such a paradigm.

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    ok, it's not "has a neighbor who drinks water..." as in coffee / tea is mostly water...

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    ahah.. if your thinking like that.
    i guess your allready going crazy.
    at first i thought Danes were dogs.. that drink tea.
    I can only postulate the probability of performing at a paramount level of perfection praised by the pulchritudinous paragon whose only practice is to preserve such a paradigm.

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    ok, i got it... damn... not very quick though...

    should change the question to who reared the fish
    Damn, check out that referring page... pretty trippy background effect going on there...
    Last edited by admedia; 04-25-2005 at 12:03 AM.

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