It is known as the Einstein riddle, even though its authorship is a mystery to this day. The matter has been circling the internet for some time and has made appearances in newspapers such as The Guardian, including on the website of Stanford University in California, in the profile of Lauri Karttunen, a professor of linguistics, where he suggests that 98% of the population is not able to solve it.
This is what the “Einstein riddle” consists of: a priceless fish has been stolen, and the detectives, after much hard work, have decided that it was stolen by the owner of one of the 5 nearby houses. If they choose the wrong house they can alert the thief.
Continue reading to learn the clues to the mystery.
On the street are five houses of different colors. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The owners of the houses are very much their own: they drink different drinks, smoke different brand cigarettes and each one has a different pet from the others. These are the clues that the detectives have.
- The British lives in the red house
- The Swede has a pet dog
- The Dane drinks tea
- The Norwegian lives in the first house
- The German smokes Prince
- The green house is immediately to the left of the white one.
- The owner of the green house drinks coffee
- The owner who smokes Pall Mall raises birds
- The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
- The man who lives in the house in the center drinks milk
- The neighbor who smokes Blends lives next door to the one who has a cat
- The man who owns a horse lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
- Owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer
- The neighbor who smokes Blends lives next door to the one who drinks water
- The Norwegian lives next door to the blue house.
So, according to the clues above, who owns the fish?
It may seem like an impossible task due to the amount of data you have to handle, but in reality everything you need is right in that information that they offer you, as is often the case in logic challenges. You should not look for additional information, everything follows from what is in the statements.
There is no single way to solve it and everyone can create their own method, but a very common technique is to take a pencil and paper to draw a table in which you pair each nationality with their respective pets, cigarettes, drinks and house color. From the data you have, you can deduce the rest of the answers by discarding.
Do you think you can achieve it?
Have fun trying before checking out the solution below.
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