einstiens riddle

[Ryan Thames]

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?

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.

Now see the answer below:




































































did u really think i was gonna tell you?

[Bill Maenza]

The Dane who drinks tea.

[Ryan Thames]

no

[Matl'e McDaniel]

The answer is the German..... I will wait and see if anyone else takes the time and has the patience to figure out how to solve it, but the answer is there for you. Take your time, write it out and it will become more clear. Though in your head you dont see where left and right may be, your hand can lead your eye to the answer.... Just a little hint.

[Ryan Thames]

cheater




you googled it

[Matl'e McDaniel]

nope did it sophmore year in college..... took me a whole night w/ study group

[Bill Maenza]

See what happens when you try to cheat? I googled and here was the answer that they came up with:
www.mindspring.com/~mccarthys/puzzle4.htm

[Matl'e McDaniel]

Thats a better way of laying out the answer.... more of a direct result. The way we did it was putting it all down on paper in lists then we were stumped again, but then we figured out that we could move around the lists. Mind you this is a entire class, and I dont think that counts as the 2% We all know im not smart enough to do it on my own. Me fails englsih? Dats umposible!

[Bill Maenza]

May seem better, but is it right?

[Karen Bean]

Now I don't feel so bad since Matl'e didn't get it by himself either. I worked and worked on this thing and just couldn't get it. So, I'll admit it - I gave up and googled it.

[Matl'e McDaniel]

Looks right to me Bill, but I didnt go over it all.

[BigDaddyJoe™]

I as well did this my junior year of college. We did this in our sociology class.