Here is a little riddle for all of you. Try not to cheat (ie look up the answer). I will reply to this thread in one week with the answer if nobody else gets it.

Einstein's Riddle:
Einstein has been widely credited online with the following riddle, and with the claim that 98% of the world could not solve it. But several of our 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:

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 owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.

Who is the owner of the fish?????

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

i've been working on it for about 35 mins now. frustrating! lol

hmm I think I am going to figure this out... I shouild get an award if I do

Oh damn...I remember this question too!
But not the answer lol!
Guess I'll have to figure it out again...I got it right the last time...

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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

THE GERMAN

house 1 - norwegian, yellow, water, dunhill, cats

house 2 - dane, blue, tea, blends, horse

house 3 - brit, red, milk, pall mall, birds

house 4 - greman, green, coffee, prince, FISH

house 5 - swede, white, beer, bluemasters, dogs

HA!

Sarcoman: you just wasted 1.5 hours of my time. if i am wrong, please dont tell me. LOL, just kiddin, it was fun. but i hope i'm right.

damn you! delete your thread! !!!@!

i mean post. come on guys dont tell answers!

Last edited by inatrance on Jun-20-2002 at 14:25

Yup...the German...
And here's proof that I actually did it...
(Did it in about 40 min.)
It's just a lot of deduction that's all...

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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

i crY. I have spent the last hour trying! I think I give up now - Lovely

if 98% of the population cant figure that out this planet is in deep shit

find more of these, they are cool

i doubt that Einstein made this one up, logic puzzles are fairly common, this one is just especially tough because it is a 5x6 matrix

havent done one of these since probably 5th grade...
took me about an hour or so with some Tranceport 1 in the background as brain music

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"life moves pretty fast...if you dont stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it" -- Ferris Bueller