Einstein's Riddle

[C1ay]

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.

Given:

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 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.

The question: Who owns the fish?

There are no tricks, just pure logic. If needed I can also provide the
diagram I assembled to help me solve it.

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. Can you?

[IrishEyes]

Are we supposed to send you a PM or just post the answer?

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by IrishEyes

Are we supposed to send you a PM or just post the answer?

You could post the answer with a font color that matches the background so it doesn't spoil it.

[rockytriton]

sheesh this is hard, just when I think I got it, I find a flaw in the logic, the only thing I'm sure of so far is the order of the houses.

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by rockytriton

sheesh this is hard, just when I think I got it, I find a flaw in the logic, the only thing I'm sure of so far is the order of the houses.

It took me about 6 hours and I've been an avid logic problem enthusiast for 25+ years.

[rockytriton]

Finally, I got it! It took me about 30 to 45 mins, but got it finally.

[yellow] | [blue] | [red] | [green] | [white]
nor. | dane | brit | germ | swede
dunhill | blends | palmal| prince | bmas
cats | horses | birds | ? | dogs
water | tea | milk | coffee | beer


So the green house, the german, owns the fish.

[rockytriton]

by the way, I sent it to my mom and she figured it out. She quit school after 9th grade and had me when she was 16 years old.

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by rockytriton

by the way, I sent it to my mom and she figured it out. She quit school after 9th grade and had me when she was 16 years old.

I didn't really think it was that hard. I think Albert just made that remark about the 98% to get more people to try it and think they're in the 2% that can do it. I'd venture a guess that half of the people could do it if they tried.

[IrishEyes]

Originally Posted by C1ay

... if they tried.

That's the thing. Most people won't. They'll look at it as something very difficult, especially considering the name. They'll read it through once or twice, maybe sit down with a pencil for 5 or 10 mintues, then give it up as 'impossible'. Actually, it's pretty sad to think that most people have no idea of their true potential. But that's a whole other can o' worms!

[WildRose1010]

I know this may upset you that had to take a long time on this, but it only took me about 20 min to do this, while I was in math class. All you need is to make a chart and think logically. It was a lot of fun, though! Thanks for the brainteaser!
Yellow Norwegian Water Dunhill Cats,
Blue Dane Tea Blends Horses,
Red Brit Milk Pall Mall Birds,
Green German Coffee Prince Fish
White Swede Beer Blue Masters Dogs
The answer is the German owns the fish.