einstein's riddle

i knew letsrun was full of idiots

Obviously the German owns the fish and his PR\'s are faster than yours.

I am pretty stupid but this was not particularly difficult.

i got it, but some time and an extensive process of elimination... overall, not so hard:

House 1 is yellow and contains a Dunhill-smoking, water-drinking Norwegian cat-lover.

House 2 is blue, houses a Danish man who drinks tea and smokes Blends with his horses.

The Brit enjoys his milk and Pall Malls while whistling to his birds in the red middle house.

You'll find coffee and Prince cigarettes in the German's green house, the fourth one, and he has water tanks for his FISH.

The Swede is in the last house, which is white, and he drinks beer with his dogs, a Blue Master cigarette in his hand.

how fast did you figure it out probably took you longer than you say or you cheated

I got it in the end but I admit I spent at least 45min on it. I got some idea in my head that the German drank water and that really slowed me down. Tough riddle but doable.

half hour, including five minutes to decide how to organize. i drew five houses and put all 5 variables in each house. then i wrote down all the possible solutions for each variable, usually 2 or 3 for each house. then i crossed out the ones that created logistical lapses. everything fell into place pretty quickly, though i hit some parts where i had to be careful.

why did you think the german drank the water? just wondering.

Haha, that was fun! Thank you.

Took me less than 10 seconds:

http://www.manbottle.com/trivia/einstein_s_riddle/einstein_s_riddle_answer

the question was whether you could you solve the riddle not whether you could get it

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.

Was anybody able to solve this without needing a hint? Because if you needed a hint, then you really didn't solve it on your own.

Solved it in about 20 seconds. As soon as I read it through, I had it solved.

WOW! I must be smart. Would someone please tell my teachers?

That's retarded.

Albert Einstein did not write that, and he did not say that 98% of the world would not be able to solve it.

That problem is easily solvable with a simple elimination table.

I drew a grid of 5 x 5 and only wrote down what I knew for certain. It bothered me though that I had to take a guess at one point (or perhaps I did it wrong). To solve it I had to make an assumption: the Swede lives either in house #4 or #5. I chose #4 and saw that it couldn't work so I went back, put him in house #5, and everything fell back into place.

I like that the German doesn't drink beer and the Brit doesn't drink tea.

Apollo C. Vermouth wrote:

Was anybody able to solve this without needing a hint? Because if you needed a hint, then you really didn't solve it on your own.

why would you need a hint? Almost anyone could solve this puzzle if they really wanted to.

nicely wrote:

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.

This is BS. Albert Einstein was born in 1879. It's also a pretty standard logic puzzle. I also doubt Einstein wrote any riddles.

i too realized that it would be impossible for einstein to have written this riddle in the early 19th century considering he wasn't born until late in the second half.

This is horseshit. Absolute horseshit. Einstein was not alive at the beginning of the 19th century. Go back to whatever the riddle message board equivalent of dyestat is.