Brain Teaser. Have fun!

[madmatt621]

Einstein's Riddle!

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. 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.
The question is: Who owns the fish? Just to make sure you are not making any wild guessing, please include the nationality, color, beverage and brand of cigar.

Hints:

• The Brit lives in the red house.
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the left of the white house.
• The green homeowner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the center house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
• The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
• The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
• The German smokes prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Einstein wrote this riddle early during the 19th century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. Its not hard, you just need to pay attention and be patient.

[Raziel_Darkeden]

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I've figured it out too. My methodology as as follows (whited it out out so as not to spoil it), highlight the space below.
The Norwegian lives all the way to left, next to the blue house. So his house cannot be blue (because he lives next to that), it cannot be Red (he's not a brit), it cannot be white (green is on the left of that and there are no houses to the left of him) it cannot be green (the house to the right of him is not white) so it must be yellow. From which follows that he smokes Dunhills. His neighbour in the blue house therefore keeps horses.
At this point I know the position of all the houses, the owner of green doesn't drink milk so it can't be in the middle and it must be on the right of white so not 5 and 1 and 2 are taken, so it goes in four, putting red in 3 and white in 5. This places the Brit in 3. We also know that the Norwegian cannot drink milk (not in the middle), not tea (he's not danish), not coffee (he doesn't live in the green house) and not beer (because he doesn't smoke bluemeisters) so he drinks water. Which means house 2 smokes blends, which means either 1 or 3 keeps cats. The Brit (in house 3) cannot smoke dunhills or blends (taken), bluemasters (he doesn't drink beer) or princes (he's not German) which leaves the Palls Malls, which must mean he keeps birds, putting the cats in house 1.
So now we know Swede keeps dogs, Norwegian cats, Brit birds. The German cannot keep horses because the horse owner smokes blends and not princes, which means that the German is the owner of the fish. QED.

[jugglinguy]

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raziel, i suggest aliceblue because white is way too obvious.

Anyways, not hard.

[Doug31]

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Yea, I had to solve this in middle school. I don't see what's so hard about it.

[sc979]

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I'm pretty sure this was already posted twice in the riddle topic somewhere.

edit: apparantly, it's also in the ctrl+v topic.

[madmatt621]

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I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What is it?

[Raziel_Darkeden]

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I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be. What is it?

few

[archbishopjabber]

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It's more tedious than anything else.

[madmatt621]

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A man is talking to the jailer. He says: "Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's father is my mother's son."

Who is the man's father?

[Conorn]

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The Jailer?

[madmatt621]

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The Jailer?

No.

[Relyks]

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I can't beleive he thought only 2% of the world could solve it. I found it realatively easy. That new one is a riddle, and not a logic puzzle, so I won't go meddling in that.

[Raziel_Darkeden]

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A man is talking to the jailer. He says: "Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man's father is my mother's son."

Who is the man's father?

The man that is talking, is the father of the man in jail.

[Vidik]

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This is a test post because I can't post anything for some reason.

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