Monday 28 July 2014

Albert Einstain's riddle

According to legend, the great Albert Einstein invented this riddle and asserted that 98% of the world population would not have been able to solve it.
You want to check if you are in the remaining 2%?





So: in a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
In each house lives a person of different nationality. Each of the owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
Question: Who owns the fish?
Here are some clues:

1) The Englishman lives in the red house.
2) The Swede has a dog.
3) The Dane drinks tea.
4) The green house is immediately to the left of the white house.
5) The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6) The person who smokes Pall Mall has birds.
7) The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8) The man living in the center house, drinking some 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 man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Arrovellamento good at all ...

P.S. the riddle in question was brought to me by Francesca Piotti, my student of fourth high school. You're part of the 2% of lucky ...

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