Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Brain teaser

Okay, so I don't know where, exactly I stumbled onto this today or how. I really don't....but I found it, solved it and decided to post it here. I don't know if it's true that only 2% of the population can solve it, I don't think I'm all THAT bright...but it's a fun brain exercise....

The story behind Einstein's riddle is that Albert Einstein created it in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn't solve it. I am not sure of the true origin, but I have seen this one floating around the internet, and it is a good brain exercise. Here it is:

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality.

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

Necessary clues:

1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and 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 center 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 Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.

NO CHEATING.
Enjoy!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

ummmm ... you do excel at math if I remember right.

Anonymous said...

You lost me at Sweedish Dogs.....

Rebecca said...

Would you have preferred Swedish Fish? hahahahahahahhah

See how I did that? I'm CRACKING myself up over here.

And yes...total math geek...TOTAL.

Anonymous said...

As an English major, this is making my teeth hurt.

Anonymous said...

tigger says:
As a RETARD....I didn't even attempt it :)

Anonymous said...

What is the answer????
I'm going with the Irish guy in the black house.

Anonymous said...

Mustard in the study with the candel stick

Anonymous said...

Wow, you need to write another blog to cover this one up. I thought about it for 3 minutes and realized that I have work to do...