Einstein riddleFollow

Einstein wrote the following riddle. He said that 98% of the world could not
solve it. But several NIEHS scientists were able to solve it, and they said
it is not all that hard if you pay attention and are very patient. Give it a
try!


There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row. In each house lives a
person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of
beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No
owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same
beverage. Other facts:


1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house's owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.


"The question is: Who owns the fish?"

Using the graph thingy is for the weak, I used to answer straight into the table.

So no one owns fish?

So I have a little story about puzzles like this.

Few years back, when one went to graduate school in the US one took the GRE exams. There were 3 standard exams everyone took plus specific subjects (literature, physics, psychology, etc).

Anyhow the three standard exams were english, math, and "logic" - which was solving little puzzles like this (but simpler) and the trick was to make the little graphs.

(As far as I can recall it was purely doing this with little graphs over and over which is really sort of odd for an exam because if you *know* to make the graphs it is sort of trivial but if you don't it would be so much harder so it is rather trick heavy and not knowledge heavy).

Studying for these exams, I found this type really easy because my Mom used to give us these puzzles to shut us up for a while (four kids). They were for children so the grids were pre-made and we had these giant plastic disks - red and green - for yes and no.

I wasn't a particularly great student, but I scored in the 99th percentile on this one.

My youngest sister took these "GRE" exams more recently and apparently they have ditched the "logic" exam.

It's called tact I believe smasharoo

We noticed.

Hehe oops, I actually missed the question at the end about the fish.