PART OF THE 2%
alright, i'm throwing down a challenge to anyone who is reading. i found this brain teaser a while ago and wanted to give it a go ... it has taken me more than a year to actually sit down and follow through. been busy. usually frustration or impatience got the better of me and i walked away - still unknowing. not the other day though, as i was stuck at work and in between tasks so i had some time to kill.
original link where i found it:
http://www.coudal.com/thefish.phpThis brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?
There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.
The question is--
who owns the fish?Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.
If you get the correct answer, congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.
no fair cheating either, unless you're that kind of person and can live with yourself. go googling for the answer only
after you've done the work. for me, it helped to draw a picture and visualize everything. i scanned that and i will post it at a later time after some of you have had a chance to play with this.
it is a fun process and i encourage you to sit down for an hour or two and have a go. use that brain, enjoy.