Sunday, February 07, 2010

A Puzzle, A Highly Recommended One


Came across this very refreshing, somewhat challenging and extremely satisfying riddle. I am producing the puzzle in the same format in which it was forwarded to me, so please do not blame me for the unnecessary inclusion of "Einstein said you are in the top 2% of intelligent people of you crack it" etc., but yes, if you crack it, you can pat yourself on the back! All the best.

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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?


HINTS

      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.(with respect to house, right side to someone who is facing 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.

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.


Submit your answers as a comment in the following format: first letter of color,first letter of nationality, first letter of beverage, first letter of smoke, first letter of pet
Example : White, German, Milk, Blend, Cat

Password: wgmbc

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35 comments:

  1. ggpcf - great puzzle..

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  2. @Satya, Chintan Shah - Unfortunately I can't give away the answer here. But if you give me your email IDs I can confirm:)

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  3. Somtirtha1:43 AM

    1st house - Yellow, Norwegian, Dunhill, Water, Cats
    2nd house - Blue, Dane, Blends, Tea, Horses
    3rd house - Red, Brit, Pall Mall, Milk, Birds
    4th house - Green, German, Prince, Coffee, Fish
    5th house - White, Swede, Blue Master, Beer, Dogs

    So the answer is the German owns the fish.

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  4. 1- Norwegian,Yellow,Cats,Dunhill,Water
    2-Danish,Blue,Horse,Blends,Tea
    3-British,Red,Birds,Pallmall,Milk
    4-German,Green,Fish,Prince,Coffee
    5-Swedish,White,Dog,Bluemaster,Beer

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  5. Great puzzle. Kudos to Einstein

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  6. GGCPF

    Guyzz.. I was able to solve it.. But it took me an hour to solve it..

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  7. This is an easy one...
    The answer is Green German Coffee Prince and the one having the fish......

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  8. Anonymous2:24 PM

    ggcpf but the 14th hint should have been "blue house is next to norweigian's house"

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  9. Anonymous2:04 AM

    buddy send me the answar and please send the explanation
    email:saroj.perfect@yahoo.com

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  10. green,german,coffee,prince,fish

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  11. vishesh1:28 PM

    the answer is : GGCPF....:)

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  12. The answer is wdwbf

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  13. Norwegien
    has the fish

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  14. 1st house - Yellow, Norwegian, water, Dunhill, Cats
    2nd house - Blue, Dane, Tea, Blends, Horses
    3rd house - Red, Brit, Milk, Pall Mall, Birds
    4th house - Green, German, coffee, Prince, Fish
    5th house - White, Swede, Beer, Blue Master, Dogs

    So the answer is the German owns the fish.

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  15. Anonymous12:39 AM

    Hi every body i am prasadkalluri

    A big thank you to the blogger placing the beautiful puzzle

    Below is Perfect solution for the puzzle which satisfies all the 15 logical hints


    1st house -Yellow, Norwegian, Dunhill, Water, Cats

    2nd house-Blue, Danish, Blends, Tea, Horses

    3rd house-Red, British, Pall Mall, Milk, Birds

    4th house -White, Swedish, Blue Master, Beer, Dogs

    5th house -Green, German, Prince, Coffee, Fish


    Note:In order to solve the puzzle the procedure i followed is to group the hints


    Group1:Group all the hints which will help you locating the direct position of houses in terms of

    numbers

    9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
    14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
    8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.

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    Group 2: Group all the hints which have the word next except the hint 14 since it is already playing the

    role of base hint .This step facilitates to find the adjacent house numbers

    4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.(with respect to house, right side to

    someone who is facing the white 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.
    15. The Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

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    Group 3:Group all the third priority hints

    1. The British man lives in a red house.
    2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
    3. The Danish man drinks tea.
    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.
    12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
    13. The German smokes Prince.

    All the very Best to all who want to solve this puzzle

    Solution:Finally the answer is the German owns the fish.

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  16. SUMAIYA1:36 PM

    YNWDF

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  17. Anonymous5:11 PM

    hey i solved the problem, but i took more than 1 hour.

    the answer is GGCPF, German owns the fish

    i really like to solve such problems, put some questions friends

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  18. the GERMAN owns the FISH who lives in GREEN house....drinks COFFEE.........n smokes PRINCE

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  19. GGCPF ::: I solved it in 35 mins.

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  20. Anonymous11:21 AM

    Great ! I took 15 mins to solve this. GGCPF

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  21. Anonymous11:32 AM

    i solved this puzzle in a hour.............the german has the fish...........and the rest of the table matches praveen143.

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  22. Pranshu3:36 PM

    YNWDF - Why is my answer different?

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  23. Pranshu3:37 PM

    Oh damn - wrong placement of G - W houses.. I'm dyslexic :P

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  24. GGCPF....................too easy...simple logic...

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  25. Anonymous3:34 AM

    GGCPF

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  26. Anonymous12:12 PM

    ggcpf

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  27. 1- Norwegian,Yellow,Cats,Dunhill,Water
    2-Danish,Blue,Horse,Blends,Tea
    3-British,Red,Birds,Pallmall,Milk
    4-German,Green,Fish,Prince,Coffee
    5-Swedish,White,Dog,Bluemaster,Beer

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  28. 1- Norwegian,Yellow,Cats,Dunhill,Water
    2-Danish,Blue,Horse,Blends,Tea
    3-British,Red,Birds,Pallmall,Milk
    4-German,Green,Fish,Prince,Coffee
    5-Swedish,White,Dog,Bluemaster,Beer

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