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Einstein wrote this quiz over one hundred years ago. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. I cannot. I do not know the answer, or whether it is a trick question.

Here it is:


There are 5 houses in 5 different colours

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?

 
The Brit lives in a red house
The Swede keeps dogs as pets
The Dane drinks tea
The green house is on the left of the white house
The green house owner drinks coffee
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk
The Norwegian lives in the first house
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
The German smokes Prince
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water


With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.

Over to you lot!

 

ahh, i used to love logic puzzles........don't have time to have a crack at this and someone is bound to get it before i get back!!

Tight End,

I think you might be responsible for turning my entire office insane.

oops!

Good afternoon to drive through Wycombe then....

Up until your post we were the only normal people left.

BTW thanks for last night, just wondering, why don't you like Gorman?  Haven't figured out your allegiance yet.

Oooohh, I LOVE these, and had to do them A LOT for cousework ( logical analysis )

I'll have a bash and see what I can come up with.

Flushy, spoilsport, I'm deleting your post til later, then I'll pt it back on

easy peasy

my bad

if he got it already, he cheated!!

one lightbulb short of a full set of floodlights is he ginger?

LOL, I wouldn't say that, but he can't do these quicker than me!!

lol is that a challange woman???

Ever thought that i started before you?

P.S. i will be downstairs soon...ish

for his sins he's a leicester city fan

you got that right

Got it right - but had the decency to pm it..... 0:-) ;topofclass;

After 3 sheets of paper ::),1 neighbour wanting baby first aid advice, and 3 children on half term(GRRRRRR) think I have an answer. I'll PM you it just in case it's correct so as not to spoil it for anyone still doing it.

How do you know you got it right?

In TightEnds OP he said.....

"Einstein wrote this quiz over one hundred years ago. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. I cannot. I do not know the answer, or whether it is a trick question.

Just curious is all  :blonde:

well I'd worked it out obviously, but was being modest

So you lied? :redcard:

so what's the answer then?!  are you meant to work it out in the logic grid kinda fashion like the ones from the quiz books, or is it more subtle than that?  come on giz-a-clue!  pleeeeez

modesty. and a little white lie.


logic grid table is the way to go, yes

It can be done in about 3 mins using trial and error or about 15 using logic.

Once you've got the logic grid filled in - go through all the statements & make sure you've covered them all...

Logic grids are the only way you can make sure the answer is 100% correct with this sort of puzzle, NO HUMAN BRAIN, can solve this sort of puzzle without writing it down. And yes, that IS a FACT!

Simply write down everything on the grid you KNOW to be true, then work out the things like... Brit lives in the red house, so therefore he CANNOT live in the yellow, green... You know that the Dane drinks tea, so he DOES NOT drink coffee, beer, milk or water etc.

By reading through several times, marking off possibilities you get a good estimate, you then read the statement again against your answers, and if they all are true, you are correct!

Hope that makes some sort of sense.

Perfect sense, I used to be addicted to all those logic puzzle books with the grids.

I will have a crack at this later, please please don't post the answer just yet

I've only just spotted this thread, but my guess is that a little bit of algebra is going to come into play...

Unlikely snoops. Just logic.

Glad you said that Robert, I was puzzled at how algebra came into it lol.

If logic fails use google 8) :D

Noooooooooooo!!! that defeats the whole purpose, all that proves is that you can google, you don't get the satisfaction of solving the puzzle!

its a simple puzzle that can be solved using the same principles as sudoka

i think i'll have a look at it later

yep

that's right, same principle

i got a sudoka game for my pc and on the hardest level i have yet to find a puzzle that took me more than 33mins 46 seconds

i was going to say 30 minutes but that would be lying as one took me longer

sudokU ;) If your finding all soduku puzzles a cinch, try formulating an algorithm that would be guaranteed to be able to solve them in a formulated fashion (i.e. without just doing infinite trial and error - brute force search not allowed) - then you wil; truly be crowned as a sudoku grand maste, glasshopperr! (with your maths background i reckon you could do this...)

PM'ing my answer to the logic puzzle..... half an hour, and one sheet of paper with a lot of scribble on it here.... nice one TightEnd :cheers:

Answer: The German has ze fish!

It's just mine sweeper with scandinavians instead of bombs and flags. Took me 3 mins or so using excel.