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Albert Einstein’s Riddle – With Solution Explained

Albert Einstein has a riddle to share

Albert Einstein has a riddle to share

According to Einstein, roughly 98% of the world’s population cannot solve this riddle. It is one that uses pure logic – no fancy math is required.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different 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 next to, and 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.

If you are able to solve this, consider yourself in the top 2% of the World’s population.

You can find the solution, along with an explanation here.

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7 Responses to “Albert Einstein’s Riddle – With Solution Explained”

  • albert einstein:

    Hello, thank you for making a page about me.

  • Gabe:

    1 2 3 4 5
    country norwegian dane brit german swede
    color yellow blue red green white
    smokes dunhill blends pall mall prince blue mstr
    pet cats horses birds fish dogs
    drinks water tea milk coffee beer

  • Jeff:

    wow babak i love how you condesendingly post your response and your wrong , too cute, anyway it is the german that owns the fish and you are correct the norwegian goes on the right however the dane live to the right of the norwegian in the blue house drinking teasmoking blends and brushing his horses so maybe you should try again buddy

  • babak:

    hey buddies….
    put the norweigian on the right side instead of left and solve it again
    its the dane who owns the fish

    p.s
    sorry 4 my english

  • Rafael A. Velez:

    It’s indeed the german who owns the fish. But the german lives in the green house, which is the 4th house. He drinks coffee and smokes Prince.

  • michael:

    we the care takers of the world for our children and there children ect. own the fish

  • Dee o:

    simple riddle. the german

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