Thursday, April 21, 2011

Albert Einsten's Brain Teaser

I spent a good 3 hours last night doing this logic puzzle. According to Einstein, only 2% of the world's population could solve. I don't think that's true, 'cause given enough time and patience, everybody should be able to find the answer. The answer to after the jump. Enjoy!

P.S. I made a complicated--yet colorful--spread sheet for this problem. But that's not necessary.

There are 5 houses each with a different color. Their owners, each with a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keeps a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same variety of pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette or drink the same beverage.

Clues:
  • The Brit lives in the red house.
  • The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  • The Dane drinks tea.
  • Looking from in front, the green house is just to the left of the white house.
  • The green house's owner drinks coffee.
  • The person who smokes Pall Malls raises birds.
  • The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  • The man living in the center house drinks milk.
  • The Norwegian lives in the leftmost house.
  • The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  • The man who keeps a horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  • The owner who smokes Bluemasters also drinks beer.
  • The German smokes Prince.
  • The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  • The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Who owns the pet fish?

Who owns the fish?       The German.

The complete solution is as follows:

Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Yellow Blue Red Green White
Dunhill Blends Pall Mall Prince Bluemasters
Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Cats Horse Birds Fish Dogs

1 comment:

  1. Whoa. That took me almost an hour and a half. Definitely one of the hardest logic puzzles I've ever done.
    But it was fun! Again! Again!
    And yes, I also got that the German had the fish.

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