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KC//CRIMSON
3/13/2007, 11:35 AM
This brainteaser, reportedly written by Albert Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in? There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

Here are the hints. The question is, who owns the fish?

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 left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10.The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11.The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.


There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the right answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer. If you get the correct answer, congratulations! You are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can!


ps. process of elimination got me the answer in under ten minutes.;)
sooner_born_1960
3/13/2007, 11:37 AM
My 6th grader brought this home to work on the other day.
frankensooner
3/13/2007, 11:45 AM
fishy fishy fishy fish, and he went where ever I didst go
tommieharris91
3/13/2007, 12:27 PM
Figured it out in about 30, but I wanna know if I'm right.
TopDaugIn2000
3/13/2007, 12:41 PM
please us PM, I haven't figured it out yet.... :O
springs sooner
3/13/2007, 12:51 PM
i am kind of dork so i used and excel spreadsheet and kept track of the clues that way figured it out pretty quick.
TopDaugIn2000
3/13/2007, 12:53 PM
i am kind of dork so i used and excel spreadsheet and kept track of the clues that way figured it out pretty quick.

I started to do that. lol.
TopDaugIn2000
3/13/2007, 01:01 PM
GOT IT. (after a small hint from KC)
crawfish
3/13/2007, 01:31 PM
Took me two tries and 30 minutes...bad logic in the first try.
SoonerStormchaser
3/13/2007, 02:22 PM
We gots us some smart fellers on dis here bored!
Osce0la
3/13/2007, 02:22 PM
I think I got it...
Osce0la
3/13/2007, 02:53 PM
Anyone with the right answer care to look at my answer and let me know if I got it right?
crawfish
3/13/2007, 02:57 PM
Anyone with the right answer care to look at my answer and let me know if I got it right?

Sure, send it on in.

If all the assumptions match your results...you got it right.
JohnnyMack
3/13/2007, 02:59 PM
http://noodlepie.typepad.com/blog/images/sushi-bar-sushi.jpg
Osce0la
3/13/2007, 03:23 PM
Ignore my PM craw, I found it on Google...Had it right, took me about 10-20 minutes...Of course I was trying to actually work while trying to figure it out...
TopDaugIn2000
3/13/2007, 03:24 PM
Of course I was trying to actually work while trying to figure it out...

that's my excuse too :P
Osce0la
3/13/2007, 03:39 PM
I had to use excel too :D
GottaHavePride
3/13/2007, 04:06 PM
The German lives in the green house, drinks coffee, smokes Princes, and owns the fish. Oh, and he's house 4 out of 5


Yeah, that's the answer. ;)
SoonerTerry
3/13/2007, 05:00 PM
How do you do that cover the text with black thingy?
Osce0la
3/13/2007, 07:56 PM
How do you do that cover the text with black thingy?

Just use this see, works good doesn't it
Williesan
3/13/2007, 09:39 PM
This thread has been here since 11:30-ish this morning and there hasn't been an Etoufee sighting yet??? :stunned:

Williesan


Edit: I'm a 2%'er.
Pricetag
3/14/2007, 10:16 AM
This thread has been here since 11:30-ish this morning and there hasn't been an Etoufee sighting yet??? :stunned:

Williesan


Edit: I'm a 2%'er.
Exactly. Legally, I'd say it belongs to the kid on the left.

http://www.jasonmadison.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/pic00041.jpg.w300h450.jpg
TexasLidig8r
3/14/2007, 10:53 AM
Walleye pike are indigenous to the northern US and Canada. There are no Canucks or US citizens on the list. The likelihood of having these 5 nationalities living next to each other in Canada or the northern US is astronomical. Even if such occurrence did exist, the walleye pike would be a very difficult fish to keep alive unless you had a very large aquarium.

Therefore, logically, no one has the fish since the basic premise is flawed.

ACH DE LIEBER!!!!!
tommieharris91
3/14/2007, 02:25 PM
Walleye pike are indigenous to the northern US and Canada. There are no Canucks or US citizens on the list. The likelihood of having these 5 nationalities living next to each other in Canada or the northern US is astronomical. Even if such occurrence did exist, the walleye pike would be a very difficult fish to keep alive unless you had a very large aquarium.

Therefore, logically, no one has the fish since the basic premise is flawed.

ACH DE LIEBER!!!!!

Way to go dere, ya hoser!!!
Pricetag
3/14/2007, 04:35 PM
It's ach du lieber.
skycat
3/14/2007, 05:52 PM
Took me maybe 20 minutes. Drew a matrix on paper, instead of Exceling it up.
skycat
3/14/2007, 05:59 PM
I'm not sure that only 2% of people could figure this out, so much as only 2% of people would want to figure it out.