Friday, October 23, 2009

Einstein

Hello, and welcome to Day 1 of Jordan's Procrastination and Puzzle Solving Extravaganza.

In this post, and possibly in subsequent edits/updates, I will be attempting to solve the following puzzle:

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.


THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane 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 centre 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 man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
16. Let us accept for the purposes of this puzzle that someone DOES own a fish, and that fish CAN BE owned.

Written by Albert Einstein, he purported that 98% of the world's population could not solve this puzzle at all.

I'm going to try to be that 2%

This is my goal, this is my next big thing. Not like solving it is going to get me any recognition; I just want to be able to say I've done it.

Now, moving on, I will be uploading my diagrams and such for the next few hours to keep myself awake so I can study after that. I also encourage my two readers to try to solve it as well. Good luck!

P.S. don't look online and try to catch the answer before me or I'll bust your nuts/ovaries. You know who you are.

Edit 4:20 AM (haha): Puzzle solved.

It's simple really; the clues are really kind of annoying but it's definitely solvable.

3 comments:

  1. you know that thinky feeling your brain gets? that's what i'm feeling right now, all the thoughts spinning around and around. since i hate these little grid things (and having to make my own), i'm just going to wing it. is it the german who has the fish (deduced because he only has two pet options left)?

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  2. yeah, it is. at least i think it is, i can't find my damn paper anymore haha.

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