ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD? SOLVE THE RIDDLE AND FIND OUT.
There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
HINTS
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 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 centre 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.
ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 20th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.
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By the way, Steve, I think your idea to read Einstein this summer is great. How should we get started?
So I guess it's time to come clean. I didn't solve the puzzle. I actually worked at it for awhile, and made some progress (including the handy deductive reasoning grid from my elementary school "Higher Level Thinking Skills"--seriously, that's what they called it--gifted class) but then realized I didn't actually have the time to devote to this particular intellectual endeavor.
Also, Katie did solve it. Did I mention that she recently got a scholarship award from MENSA? She is clearly the smartest member of our team. She should get the PhD... oh, but then I'd have to work. Hmmm... let's just keep this between us, ok? No need to put ideas in her head.
I got it, in less than 10 minutes, but I did have to use paper and pen to jot some things down. Is that cheating?
Ah finally got the answer. It took me about 45min with pen and paper.
It seems to me like the logic used in this problem is the same used in Sudoku, which I'm no good at. But if I remember correctly, Katie is really good at them, which explains why she aced this puzzle (plus the fact that she's just a smart cookie in general).
Andy, in my post about reading Einstein I explained how to get your hands on a copy, be it audio, text, or print. Then what do you mean "How should we get started"?
I think he means something along the lines of "how should we get started discussing the book?" Defining a set plan rather than somebody just saying "so...relativity..."
Aeijtzsche is right. I have the concept of getting the materials down. How might we have a useful blog-cussion about it?
I got it. I had to use paper. It took maybe an hour... I was stalling from reading Candide in French, which is also what I'm stalling from doing right now.
and I don't think Einstein wrote this early in the 19th century... as he wasn't alive then.
And why would Einstein make estimations about percentages of the world's population who could or couldn't solve the riddle.
And it would only be problematic for people who only speak European languages, anyways.
Where did you find this thing? I'd be more likely to trust a Wikipedia entry on Puff the magic dragon.
So, first of all... Aeijzsche, you were able to solve Einstein's puzzle in less than 10 minutes!?! I bow before your superior intellect.
Second, Puff the Magic Dragon, Steve? If that was an object lesson in how to start talking about Einstein, perhaps someone like Aeijzsche will have to explain it to me, because I can't figure it out. Or maybe you were responding to something else? In any case, maybe we should start a new post. Something like... so, about that relativity thing. Pretty good stuff, eh?
oh wait. You were responding to Coye. I am, in a term my siblings and I coined during our childhood (that is offensive, as I now realize, to several different groups), a mental midget.
The source of the riddle was Digg.com, which is actually several steps down the ladder from Wikipedia in terms of trustworthiness. But it did get us talking again, and that, I believe is a small miracle. Kind of like the fact that space itself actually bends when the earth passes by. Speaking of Einstein.
hmmm yeah as far as actually how to get the discussion started...i'm not really sure. Andy I don't think you're a mental midget so I gladly entrust the details of getting the conversation started to you since it was your brilliant idea in the first place. But I'll try to think of some ideas to. Actually, I thought the "so....relativity" approach wasn't all that bad. hehe.
oh crap i meant ", too" not "to"
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