Einstein's Puzzle

Today I saw this puzzle on the Internet. I love puzzles like these, which is probably why I like to program so much. It took me about 30 minutes and a couple sheets of paper to rifle through it all and get the answer.

How fast can you guys get it? Comment, and I'll let you know if you're right or not.

 

Einstein's Logic Puzzle

So you want a hard brain teaser! Well, here it is.

It's purported that Einstein said 98% of the world's population could not figure out this logic problem. Try your hand at it.

A logical question.

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 keep a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same 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.
  • 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 first 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 fish?

Print | posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:50 PM

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What fish?
Left by Thomas Williams on Dec 18, 2007 4:30 PM

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German - about 20 minutes, but I used excel to layout who lives where.
Left by John Workman on Dec 18, 2007 11:11 PM

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German again. Also used Excel. Took about half an hour, with a moderate skinful, late at night. Not too shabby all things considered.

Mein Herr also lives in tte green house, fourth from the left, likes coffee and smokes Prince.

I've been meaning to solve this one for years, nice to have got the monkey off my back at last.
Left by Yehudi on Dec 28, 2007 8:08 AM

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Using Exel is point blanck chitting, because it is very easy. Try to use your brain. Because the whole idea of the puzzle is to test the short term memory, deductive, inductive and reductive thinking. Exel will do it just by going through all the possibilities fast... very fast, which would take you years. Hate to pop your buble! Vik
Left by Viktor on Mar 21, 2008 8:07 PM

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german...
Left by redh on May 29, 2008 5:27 PM

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German 20 mins pencil and paper. only 13. what.then.
Left by laura on Jun 25, 2008 12:29 AM

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im only 13 is what i meant. i didnt cheat, by the way
Left by laura on Jun 25, 2008 12:33 AM

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i used excel.....it tooked me one hour to complete it......it is very hard to analyze....but i am proud that i am in the 2% that can solve it
Left by eyvid on Aug 12, 2008 7:33 AM

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German, 16 min 9.69 sec to be exact
Left by Adam on Aug 21, 2008 11:22 AM

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