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This may have been posted here before. But I'll try my luck as I found this festering on my HD. There is a solution to this riddle.

EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE

1) There are five houses in five different colours. In each house lives a person of different nationailty.

2) The five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

3) No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The question is "Who owns the fish"

Facts:

The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The person that who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the centre 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 the horse lives next to the man that smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to blue house.
The man that smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Einstien wrote this riddle this last century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it.

It can be done! Be part of the 2% that could.

It may help to print this out to work on a solution.

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heh, I love these types of problems, I haven't done one in a while, but back in GaT school we used to do them all the time, weeee

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its about 20 minutes work to work it out or about 30 seconds work to look it up on google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=The+...=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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The German drinks beer.

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im part of the 98% that was clever enough to get the 2% to find the answer for me..for free!

house	1	2	3	4	5
color	yellow	blue	red	green	white
nationality	norweigian	dane	brit	german	swede
drink	water	tea	milk	coffee	beer
smoke	dunhill	blend	pall mall	prince	bluemaster
pet	cats	horse	birds	fish	dogs

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I just figured it out without looking. Fun riddle, I enjoyed it.

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Originally posted by Vegas
Fun riddle, I enjoyed it.

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Originally posted by skalie
Er, Einstein doesn't post here anymore.

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Einstein reads the Asylum? Thought he was dead.

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I can't believe that only 2% of people could do that. It isn't that hard.

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Last century only 2% of the population could read.

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It just doesn't seem like over 4 years ago since the last century. So many people can read now.

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the muslim drinks cocktails on bondai beach after winning gold fish at the fair?

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the muslim drinks cocktails on bondai beach after winning gold fish at the fair?

so nice I seem to have said it twice

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Miss Scarlet, in the Library, with the Candlestick.

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I saw that movie.

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So it's true then! Einstein was completely wattless?

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It just doesn't seem like over 4 years ago since the last century. So many people can read now.

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Some of the sites seem to say that Einsten wrote the riddle early in the 19th century, which was some going given that he had yet to be born at that stage.

I would say that popular convention is that centuries (like, 'the twentieth century') are pretty much labelled by the calendar, rather than from more important events such as my birth year.

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