Einsteins riddle

The story behind Einstein's riddle is that Albert Einstein created it in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. I am not sure of the true origin, but I have seen this one floating around the internet, and it is a good brain exercise. Here it is:

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality.

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

5 Answers

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omkar ·

Necessary clues:

1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man 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 center 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 Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

4
UTTARA ·

ANS : The German 's pet is FISH

4
UTTARA ·

C this is the solution

Yellow Blue Red Green White

Norwegian Danish British Swedish German

Dunhill Blende PallMall Blue Master Prince

Cats Horses Birds Dogs ?

Water tea milk beer coffee

4
UTTARA ·

In late 1800's 98 % population were dumb is it ??[3]

(No offence meant just kidding it tuk 5 mins and 1 whole pg of my bk 2 solve this)

But a nice one Thanks Einstein n sibal [1]

1
gordo ·

:) i thus i feel the moral of this story is that einstein wanted to tell ppl that don't get bogged down by looking at a long problem statement or how big the problem appears from a distance. Unless u go down to the root, u won't be able to solve nice problems.
@uttara, its quite understandable, i mean the 98% thingy, as 99.sumthing % of the indian students (a country known for it's brain power)make it to the iits, yet, u don't find a lot of jee questions that puzzling do u??

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