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Posted by trancechaos on Jul-16-2004 00:33:

who can figure this out?

This is a variation of a riddle that is called �Einstein�s Riddle. � Few who try this riddle can solve it with out any help. Can you?

House 1 House 2 House 3 House 4 House 5

Nation
House Color
Drink
Exercise
Pet

There are five houses. There are people of different nationalities living in each of the five houses. The houses are different colors. The people in each house drink a different drink, exercise in different ways, and keep different pets. Who keeps the fish?

Common Clues:
The Japanese woman drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The owner of the yellow house plays tennis.
The person living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The person who has horses lives next door to the person who plays tennis.
The owner who surfs drinks beer.
The person who plays soccer has a neighbor who drinks water.

clues:

The Korean man lives in a red house.
The Vietnamese grandmother keeps dogs as pets.

The Chinese couple lives in the first house.
The person who plays soccer lives next door to the house with cats.

The Indonesian teenager goes jogging.
The Chinese couple lives next to the blue house.

The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who goes hiking has birds.

Posted by JustinStyles on Jul-16-2004 00:52:

When I get time, I am going to come back and figure this out!

Peace!

Styles !

Posted by Kytracid on Jul-16-2004 01:19:

Did a bunch of similar questions in an artificial intelligence computer science course last year. It's not that difficult really...

( won't give the solution or hints for obvious reasons )

Posted by Fir3start3r on Jul-16-2004 01:20:

I do have the solution because I did solve it once.
It's on my HDD and since I don't have a website right now...can't post it

But I admit, it's pretty good

Posted by Resnick on Jul-16-2004 01:30:

i dont get it, if theres no trick to this, cant u just fill everything in and solve it??

Posted by trancechaos on Jul-16-2004 01:33:

you can fill in everything but there are so many variations which make it tricky and you can end up with the wrong answer. its not as straight forward as you might think it is.

Posted by st0ka. on Jul-16-2004 01:46:

good stuff...took me about 10 mins to solve....
dont wanna spoil it by givin out the solution...

Posted by striptease4me on Jul-16-2004 02:40:

1 fish 2 fish

Ouch my head hurts... Someone tell me who has the fish before I go out and buy some and say I own the fish.

Side note: Always inform young fish owners that although their fish seem cold, the fish do not need a warm bath to feel better.

Posted by DJ Ski on Jul-16-2004 02:44:

Interesting puzzle. I remember doing similar ones in an enrichment class in middle school. Took a couple minutes to get.

Posted by harcourt on Jul-16-2004 03:16:

Let's see .... the germans?

Posted by striptease4me on Jul-21-2004 18:55:

aaaannd the answer is ???

Posted by Resnick on Jul-21-2004 19:29:

indonesian...if u want full solution i can pm it to u

Posted by striptease4me on Jul-21-2004 19:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Resnick
indonesian...if u want full solution i can pm it to u

Yaaay I think i got it right
Please pm the full solution so I check the whole thing !

Posted by Fir3start3r on Jul-21-2004 22:53:

quote:
Originally posted by striptease4me
aaaannd the answer is ???

We'd tell you but then your head would asplode...

Posted by striptease4me on Jul-22-2004 00:58:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
We'd tell you but then your head would asplode...

ok that was just plain MEAN

Posted by Durafei on Jul-22-2004 01:07:

Here is an interesting puzzle I was told recently.

Seems pretty impossible at first, but as it turns out there is a logical solution

quote:

The warden meets with 23 new prisoners when they arrive. He tells them, "You may meet today and plan a strategy. But after today, you will be in isolated cells and will have no communication with one another.

"In the prison is a switch room, which contains two light switches labeled A and B, each of which can be in either the 'on' or the 'off' position. I am not telling you their present positions. The switches are not connected to anything.

"After today, from time to time whenever I feel so inclined, I will select one prisoner at random and escort him to the switch room. This prisoner will select one of the two switches and reverse its position. He must move one, but only one of the switches. He can't move both but he can't move none either. Then he'll be led back to his cell.

"No one else will enter the switch room until I lead the next prisoner there, and he'll be instructed to do the same thing. I'm going to choose prisoners at random. I may choose the same guy three times in a row, or I may jump around and come back.

"But, given enough time, everyone will eventually visit the switch room as many times as everyone else. At any time anyone of you may declare to me, 'We have all visited the switch room.' and be 100% sure.

"If it is true, then you will all be set free. If it is false, and somebody has not yet visited the switch room, you will be fed to the alligators."

What is the strategy they come up with so that they can be free?