ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?

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ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?

Post by Rich McVey » Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:26 pm

ALBERT EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE

ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD? SOLVE THE RIDDLE AND FIND OUT.

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?

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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.



I'll post the answer in a couple days. Its a simple logic problem you probably had similar question in HS math.
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Post by scott080379 » Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:45 pm

The owns the fish......simple grid break down to figure this out.

was fun though got my brain working

deleted my answer so others can figure it out......should have done that fro mthe start ....opps
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Post by bionic_one » Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:36 pm

Quite the teaser, and fun to work out on a spreadsheet.
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Post by BentRod » Wed Oct 27, 2010 2:53 pm

Took me longer than I thought it would, but fun. Thanks. Logic puzzles are great.

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Post by MikeFishes » Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:45 pm

Got it (wish there was way to post but hide my message). More? I used a similar tactic used for tough Suduku puzzles. :cheers:

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Post by Gringo Pescador » Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:17 am

Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick:cheers:
I fish not because I regard fishing as being terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun. ~ John Volker

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Post by Rich McVey » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:25 am

Gringo Pescador wrote:Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick:cheers:
Thats the MOST common answer I hear.lol


Here is the answer key.
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Post by Splitshot » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:29 am

I saw this years ago and didn't solve it then but interestingly enough, it probably wasn't Einstien that wrote the puzzle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle

And Einstien never cluttered his mind with anything other than his work. He resused to even memorize phone numbers.
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Post by Gringo Pescador » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:17 am

Rich McVey wrote:
Gringo Pescador wrote:Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick:cheers:
Thats the MOST common answer I hear.lol
Well that must mean I am "average". I can live with that.:thumleft:
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Post by knotabassturd » Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:44 pm

Rich McVey wrote:
Gringo Pescador wrote:Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick:cheers:
Thats the MOST common answer I hear.lol


Here is the answer key.
Woo, glad I'm not in the top 2%. That would hurt thinking about that kind of stuff while fishing.
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Post by Gonefishing » Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:45 pm

I figured it out but it took awhile....
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