Brain Teaser - :L Created 20 years ago2004-11-12 12:22:29 UTC by Peace and LOve

This quiz is supposed to have been written by Einstein. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. Could you be among the other 2%?



There are 5 houses, each is a different colour
In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
These 5 owners all drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigar or drinks the same drink as another owner.

1: The Briton 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 (they are also next door to each other)
5: The green house owner 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 house right in the center drinks milk
9: The Norwegian lives in the first house
10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats
11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
12: The owner 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 Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is: WHO KEEPS FISH?

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds

I'd say the man who smokes Blend who has a neighbour who drinks water. If he keeps fish, there's a chance he might one day decide to drink the contents of the fish bowl... :

This ones a doozie. Its driving me nuts. I have an idea how to solve it but I need to look into it somemore.

If they're of different nationalities I'd say that fish are in international waters.

my head is going to explode but wheres the answer as i must know to see if im right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have one question. Do I have to make any assumptions about which guy drinks what and has what pet? Or is the information all there? and I take it how it is. Is this post clear?

I have solved the puzzle!!! That was hard. I want to try it again to see if my answers line up. if they do I will email Peace with the answer.

It wasn't that difficult if you read the list over and over again and made notes.

The answer is: The German

List is like so

Norwegian|Yellow House|Drinks Water|Owns Cats |Smokes Dunhill

Dane |Blue House |Drinks Tea |Owns Horses |Smokes Blend

Briton |Red House |Drinks Milk |Owns Birds |Smokes Pall Mall

German |Green House |Drinks Coffee|Owns Fish |Smokes Prince

Swede |White House |Drinks Beer |Owns Dogs |Smokes Bluemaster

Try this line up 5 boxes next to each other (5 houses)
Then play with colors (thats what got me started was trying to color each house (which is imho the most difficult part after that it got quite simple) If you cant figure it out. Try it from another point of view and constantly read the list of hints as you most likely missed something. But also make sure your notes are orderly and cleaned up aswell as accurate... I messed up the first time by making it up in my head that the brit drank tea ;p

Make lists like Nationality for each house too. LIke the first house is norwegian so since the dane drinks tea then obviously the first house and the norwegian do not ;p.

Though I find it impossible to believe that only 2% can figure this simple puzzle out. Unless of course there was a 5min timer

As for making assumptions like "The guy who drinks water must have a fish!!!" Guys I drink water and own 0 fish. I also drink Milk and have no cats hehe

The answer is made clear in the hints...

I've done this before. A couple years ago. Can't remember the answer though. It took me a while though.

Everybody can find one solution.
The 2%, Einstein was talking about, will try to find the second solution and succeed.
We've had this at school a long time ago and we did not find the second solution.

Hazardous with the way this was built there is no room for a second solution unless you break the list of facts. Like saying "The Swede lied and really owned fish ;p" or "AND the 6th neighbor kept an aquarium under his front porch.

Believe me, there is.
I've seen both solutions on some website, and both worked.

Well I can't argue without sufficient proof (mind you I just returned from a night of tequilla and it's hard enough to spell ;p) but ill look into t tomorrow.

looks easy, but I don't have time right now...