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:
- The Brit lives in the red house.
- The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
- The Dane drinks tea.
- The green house is on the
immediate left of the white house. - The green house’s owner drinks
coffee. - The owner who smokes Pall Mall
rears birds. - The owner of the yellow house
smokes Dunhill. - The owner living in the center
house drinks milk. - The Norwegian lives in the first
house. - The owner who smokes Blends
lives next to the one who keeps cats. - The owner who keeps the horse
lives next to the one who smokes
Dunhill. - The owner who smokes
Bluemasters drinks beer. - The German smokes Prince.
- The Norwegian lives next to the
blue house. - The owner who smokes Blends
lives next to the one who drinks
water.
The question is: who owns the fish?