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:: Einstein's Test ::

Einstein wrote this test and said that 98% of the people can't solve it... Let's hope you are one of the remaining 2%.

There's only one solution for this problem.

  1. There are 5 houses of 5 different colours.
  2. In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
  3. Those 5 people drink different drinks, smoke cigarettes of a different brand and have a different pet.
  4. None of them has the same pet, smokes the same cigarette or drinks the same drink.

Question: Who has the fish?

Tips:

  • The englishman lives in the red house.
  • The swedish has a dog as a pet.
  • The Dane drinks tea.
  • The green house is at the left side of the white one.
  • The person who lives at the green house drinks coffee.
  • The person who smokes Pall Mall raises birds.
  • The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  • The man that lives in the house that is in the middle drinks milk.
  • The norwegian lives in the first house.
  • The man that smokes Blends lives next to the one that has cats.
  • The man that raises horses lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.
  • The man that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
  • The german smokes Prince.
  • The norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  • The man that smokes Blends is neighbour of the one that drinks water.

Answer:

Each national lives in a house, drinks, smokes and has a pet:
Nationalities: English, Swedish, Dane, German and Norwegian
Houses: Red, Yellow, Green, White and Blue
House Positions: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
Drinks: Beer, Tea, Water, Milk and Coffee
Pets: Horses, Birds, Cats, Dog and Fish
Smokes: Pall Mall, Bluemaster, Dunhill, Prince and Blends.

So the correct groupings should be:
English: Red House, 3rd, Milk, Birds, Pall Mall
Swedish: White House, 5th, Beer, Dog, Bluemaster
Dane: Blue House, 2nd, Tea, Horses, Blends
German: Green House, 4th, Coffee, Fish, Prince
Norwegian: Yellow House, 1st, Water, Cats, Dunhill

 

 

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