Einstein's Riddle!

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Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Tobitobi » Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:29 pm

This was super fun, and admittingly rather hard.

Here are the rules:
1. You must clearly explain your logic in how you figured it out
2. You must not under any circumstance use programs like e.g. Microsoft Word to map out a strategy

3. No spoilers [for those who have given up, or have encountered this riddle already]

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 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by jupiviv » Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:26 am

The German owns the fish. I drew grids in paper and solved it by filling them in one by one according to the information given. I don't know if Einstein was right about the top 2% of world population being able to do it, since anyone who works with tables and stats a lot will be able to solve this easily.

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Tobitobi » Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:36 am

jupiviv wrote:The German owns the fish. I drew grids in paper and solved it by filling them in one by one according to the information given. I don't know if Einstein was right about the top 2% of world population being able to do it, since anyone who works with tables and stats a lot will be able to solve this easily.
Excellent good sir! Well done indeed :) btw don't downplay your high intelligence to the average person who uses a "table" regularly. It simply can't be done by just anyone, at least not in the time that you've succeded.

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by cousinbasil » Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:22 am

These logic problems are very popular in puzzle magazines, and are commonly used to prepare students to take the Law Boards. Usually they give you the grid which makes it a bit easier.

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by jupiviv » Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:47 am

Tobitobi wrote:Excellent good sir! Well done indeed
Thanks.
don't downplay your high intelligence to the average person who uses a "table" regularly. It simply can't be done by just anyone, at least not in the time that you've succeded.
Maybe they would have taken more time, but a person with avg. intelligence could have done it if they knew what to do. I suspect that most people will simply be too overwhelmed by the fact that it's Einstein's riddle and that he said only 2% could solve it. Perhaps that was a psychological trick by Einstein...?

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Animus » Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:35 am

Mary's father has 5 daughters: Lala, Lele, Lili, and Lolo are the first 4, what is the name of the fifth daughter?

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Kunga » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:10 am

Lulu (a, e, i, o, u )

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Re: Kunga's Riddle!

Post by Tomas » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:38 am

Kunga wrote:Lulu (a, e, i, o, u )
No, it is Mary, the fifth daughter.

What is Mary's father's name?

And then, what is Mary's mother's name?

Finally, what is Kunga's parent's middle names?
Don't run to your death

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Kunga » Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:42 am

Oy Vey....Mary is a guy...Ha ha ha ha ha !


http://openlibrary.org/works/OL3915532W ... illy_verse

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Animus » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:01 am

Kunga: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVTW_-C014o

Add:
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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Kunga » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:42 pm

i just got here....10,100

didn't use a calculator

1000
2000
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(10,000)


10
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(100)


Ha...you thought i'd add it up as you presented it didn't cha ?

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Re: Einstein's Riddle!

Post by Animus » Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:20 am

Kunga wrote:i just got here....10,100

didn't use a calculator

1000
2000
3000
4000
____
(10,000)


10
20
30
40
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(100)


Ha...you thought i'd add it up as you presented it didn't cha ?
I had no such expectations; most people answer 11,000

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