Are you in the 2% that can you solve Einsteins riddle?

[BigRedChief]

The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. It's also sometimes attributed to Lewis Carrol, although there's no evidence that either of them actually wrote it. Either way, it's fiendishly clever and is popularly called "Einstein's riddle". It's rumored that only 2% of the world can solve it.

See if you can figure it out:

There are five houses in five different colors in a row. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five 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.

Other facts:
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 immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house's owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.



The question is: who owns the fish?


There are no tricks, all it requires is simple logic.



Those that haven’t the patience to work it out can watch PoETheeds' video, which takes you through the process of solving it step by step.

Spoiler!

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Boar Semen !

[Fairplay]

I think it is Boar Semen also.

[TambaBerry]

Wait until I get to work tomorrow. I'll have more time.

[Coochie liquor]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Boar Semen !

This!!

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

Boar Semen !

Thats your answer to everything.

[RINGLEADER]

It should be called the 20% riddle because that's your chance of guessing right.

[Gonzo]

It was colonel mustard, in the library with a candlestick.

[Third Eye]

2% is incredibly dubious. That wasn't even remotely challenging.

[kccrow]

Easier in a step by step...

Spoiler!

Norwegian in first house
Norwegian next to blue house, so blue is second
Owner in the center house drinks milk, so green can't be center since he drinks coffee and that house can't be white since that house is right of the green house, center house is red, and then the next two are green then white, leaving the Norwegian to be in the Yellow house.
Norwegian must smoke Dunhill since he's in the Yellow House
Brit drinks milk since he's in the center house
Blue house has a horse since it lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill (the Norwegian)
The Norwegian can't drink milk or coffee (known), he also can't drink beer because he doesn't smoke Bluemasters, he isn't a Dane so he doesn't drink tea, so he must drink water
The one that smokes blends lives next to the one that drinks water, so the blue house dweller smokes blends
The one that smokes Bluemasters drinks beer and the only spot open for both drink and smoke is the white house, #5.
The Dane drinks tea, and the only house left without anything in drink nor nationality is #2, the Blue house
The German smokes prince, and the only house with nothing in smoke or nationality is #4, the Green house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets, and the only house with nothing in both nationality and pet is #5, the White house
The one who smokes Pall Mall rears birds, and the only house with nothing in pet nor smoke is #3, the Red house.
The one who smokes Blends lives next to the one that keeps cats, and the only option for Cats is #1, the Yellow House
So, the one who owns the fish is the German

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Third Eye

2% is incredibly dubious. That wasn't even remotely challenging.

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Haha, yeah, that probably came out a bit more internet badass than I intended.

[Psyko Tek]

I am in the percentage that can google the answer
reasoning to solve a problem is important and should not be discounted,
but why kill yourself when you can look it up

and No I haven't looked it up or read the whole riddle
I am in the apathy camp

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Thats your answer to everything.

Because it solves a lot of problems

[displacedinMN]

I don't have the attention span to care about it.