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Einstein's riddle

The situation

  1. There are 5 houses in five different colors.

  2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

  3. These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.

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

 

The question is: Who owns the fish?

 

Hints

 

  • the Brit lives in the 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'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 horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill

  • the owner who smokes BlueMaster 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

 

Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said that 98% of the world could not solve it. 

Pieter Groen

    Year 3

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