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Lady DC
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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:00 am Post subject: [CJ] Einstein's Riddle |
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Thanks to Sirius of Team Picard for driving me crazy. Took me about an hour to solve it. Good Luck all.
Albert Einstein wrote this riddle during the early 19th century. He said
that 98% of the world population would not be able to solve it. Can YOU?
Are you in the top 2% of intelligent people in the world?
Solve the riddle and find out! There are no tricks, just pure logic. Good Luck!
1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a diferent brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?????????????
HINTS:
1. The Brit lives in a 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 owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
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jonnyv
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Solved it in a bit less time. See PM for my answer.
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Sir SlapHead SlapHeadsson
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half an hour
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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Einstein lived in the early 20th century, is that the correct answer? 
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yah, zees ees korrect !
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry
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How do we know it's a fish??? It could be an aardvark, or even a penguin!!! 
Here is a tougher question: How do you formulate a puzzle like this so that you know the hints lead to exactly one correct answer?
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Lady DC
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The Spirit
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 6:42 am Post subject: |
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I hope my answer is right. It took me a while... but I agree with Sir Rodent, it COULD be an aardvark as well as a fish. 
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KWSN Sir CADCAM
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With all this talk about sheep, aardvarks, herrings, rabbitts, hamsters, etc., etc., I thought that we should maybe have an official KWSN (State) bird.
My suggestion is the Ptarmigan  a silly looking bird with a strangly spelled name and feathered feet.
We would need to share this bird with Alaska, but I don't think they would object.
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Sir SlapHead SlapHeadsson
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote: | How do we know it's a fish??? It could be an aardvark, or even a penguin!!!
Here is a tougher question: How do you formulate a puzzle like this so that you know the hints lead to exactly one correct answer?
ni! i!u |
Now that's a question I've been wondering about for some time. Here we have puzzle magazines that are full of this kind of 'logi-quiz'-es as they're called. I suppose there must be a method of making these things similar to the scheme used for solving them.... 
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| KWSN Sir CADCAM wrote: | With all this talk about sheep, aardvarks, herrings, rabbitts, hamsters, etc., etc., I thought that we should maybe have an official KWSN (State) bird.
My suggestion is the Ptarmigan a silly looking bird with a strangly spelled name and feathered feet.
We would need to share this bird with Alaska, but I don't think they would object. |
My initial reaction was that you're a moron. But I digress.
Ornithologically speaking, my initial reaction was: Ah, yessss, the foot-feathered Ptarmigan, an excellent choice. A choice that bespeaks the inescapable fact that you possess considerable ornithological experience and knowledge.
Upon further reflection, it occurred to me that the web-footed booby might be a better choice .
Upon even further reflection I found you still to be a moron, but it occurred to me that the web-footed booby was, somehow, just "wrong" as the official KWSN bird  .
I dusted off my extensive library of birding books, and there on page 1878 of the "Morons Guide to Birdies", or perhaps I should say "nesting" on page 1878 (heh, heh... a little birdy humor there  ) was the answer: The black breasted booby gull ! Here's a fine example of the breed, just look at the rack on dat bird, will ya ?!  Wooohoo !  That baby ought to be working at Hooters !!
Alternatively, I'm open to the Blue Breasted Titmouse:
But of course the Purple Breasted Titmouse would also be an excellent choice:
Or the Long tailed black breasted titmouse would be good:
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Sir Hamster of Elderberry
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 8:50 am Post subject: |
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| Lady DC wrote: | | I knew you guys were more than just morons. |
No, we're just morons that get obsessive-compulsive about puzzles.  Anyone else remember how much effort went onto solving the "Minotaur Maze" puzzles? 
| The Spirit wrote: | | I hope my answer is right. It took me a while... but I agree with Sir Rodent, it COULD be an aardvark as well as a fish. |
Are you suggesting there could be an animal that is part-aardvark and part-fish? A Mere-vark perhaps?? I don't think ants swim all that well, what would this creature eat??? Furthermore, would it be named Eric???? How might I go about getting a license for my pet mere-vark Eric?????
| KWSN Sir CADCAM wrote: | With all this talk about sheep, aardvarks, herrings, rabbitts, hamsters, etc., etc., I thought that we should maybe have an official KWSN (State) bird.
My suggestion is the Ptarmigan a silly looking bird with a strangly spelled name and feathered feet.
We would need to share this bird with Alaska, but I don't think they would object. |
I think we already have an official KWSN bird:
However, I think we have an opening for an official KWSN (state) mollusk!
Whoops!!! Sorry, wrong mollusk ... here we go ...
Suggestions?
ni! i!u
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| Sir SlapHead SlapHeadsson wrote: | | Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote: | How do we know it's a fish??? It could be an aardvark, or even a penguin!!!
Here is a tougher question: How do you formulate a puzzle like this so that you know the hints lead to exactly one correct answer?
ni! i!u |
Now that's a question I've been wondering about for some time. Here we have puzzle magazines that are full of this kind of 'logi-quiz'-es as they're called. I suppose there must be a method of making these things similar to the scheme used for solving them.... |
Many of these types of puzzles can be represented as a matrix. Row reduce the matrix and you have solved the puzzle. I haven't hit on the right way to do it for this one yet, because "lives next to" seems to relate two columns of the matrix. Also, every time I think I'm getting close to figuring it out, Eric the aardvark steals my paper and pencil and runs away!
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| This fish is it a Halibut? |
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MajorKong
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Well, i got it last night... took me about 45 min...
I would be interested in seeing a post from Lady DC as to how many others have pm'ed her with the right answer, and how many sent in the wrong one.....
Inquireing minds want to know!
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Dear Inquiring Monkey,
As DC can verify, old Farty got it right !!! And a little quicker than you did !!
Sir Fart - not as dumb as he looks
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Lady DC
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:48 am Post subject: |
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Major Kong, I will get you those results by tomorrow. Noone has gotten it wrong yet. We all seem to be in the top 2%. Which is pretty good for a bunch of morons.
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Lady DC
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 6:11 am Post subject: |
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This is a list of those who have pm'd me with the correct answer in the order that was given. Some of you gave me all the information. Some just with just the person. You should be proud guys, you are more than just morons. You are morons who can reason. YIKES!!! Is the world coming to an end?
jonnyv
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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man i've been working on this puzzle since july and i still cant get it
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| Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Hey , I forgotted the answer , can I have another go ? PLEASe
Rat Pooh !!
O'Farety help me out (again) here , YOU owe me !! (8/4 pence @ 5% pa)
Damm stupid 'puters today do NOT have proper moneys on the keyboard , AND the old ones didn't niether (norther) . Gonner stick to Yin ( too little to the Lb , £ ,[¥] ) now . It has to be Fish !! - Nope , Chips , or . dare I say it , Blue ?
Regds Grizz
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